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If you've spent time baking cupcakes or a cake, it's only fair you spend time making the perfect buttercream to go on the top. We've got a great little video that shows you the best method for your buttercream frosting which will ensure it's a white and fluffy consistency and as light and white as a cloud.&nbsp; 
 
For the recipe <a data-item-id="02f6382a-d0f5-58f7-8c17-0acd82570e30" href="">click here</a>

How to Make the Perfect Buttercream

Buttercream piping tips and techniques are best learned visually. We show you a range of buttercream piping techniques and tips for cakes to help you in the kitchen when you're next decorating a cake or cupcake. They're super easy and with a little practice on some greased proofed paper before hand, you'll be a whizz in no time! We've used some classic tips for ours. The bigger the tip, the bigger the result. We always look for the big fat tips as you tend to get a classic finish. Smaller tips are great for more detailed work such as icing biscuits or drawing/writing words on biscuits. Here's <a data-item-id="02f6382a-d0f5-58f7-8c17-0acd82570e30" href="">our perfect buttercream recipe</a>.

Top Buttercream Piping Tips & Techniques

Ever wondered how to pipe rainbow buttercream? This Baking Mad video shows you how to pipe the perfect rainbow buttercream every time. It's really easy to do and once you've tried it once, you'll do it for everything! We've got a perfect <a data-item-id="6f7e0ec2-00d1-55af-9347-334c00fd0a62" href="">basic cupcake recipe</a> for you and we've also got a <a data-item-id="2aa28ae0-20d8-5940-b9e4-4cadbaf45e05" href="">really simple buttercream recipe</a>. 
 
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How To Pipe Rainbow Buttercream

Our good friend Juliet Sear is an expert when it comes to cake decorating. Here she shows us how to create a lace effect on a cake by hand. If you're planning on decorating your own wedding cake, you could even match up the lace if you have any on your dress.&nbsp;

How to Decorate a Cake with a Lace Effect

In this tutorial, our friend Juliet Sear shows us how you can hand paint onto a cake using edible food paints. Juliet has chosen to paint an elderflower in honour of the royal wedding.

How to Hand Paint Flowers onto a Cake

Juliet Sear is a cake decorating expert and she shows us how to create a really simple yet effectively designed cake using edible cake paints and gold leaf.&nbsp; 
 
Try our <a data-item-id="a6c6ecdd-1305-5f08-b423-169596637381" href="">Victoria sponge</a> recipe.

How to Create a Watercolour Effect on a Cake & Add Gold Leaf

Juliet Sear is a cake decorating expert. Here she shows us how to create a ruffle technique using buttercream. We use Silver Spoon icing sugar for our buttercream as it doesn't leave any clumps or lumps.&nbsp; 
 
Here's our&nbsp;<a data-item-id="2aa28ae0-20d8-5940-b9e4-4cadbaf45e05" href="">buttercream recipe</a>&nbsp;for you.

How to Create a Ruffle Effect using Buttercream

Juliet Sear is a cake decorating expert. Here she shows us how to create an ombre effect using buttercream. We use Silver Spoon icing sugar for our buttercream as it doesn't leave any clumps or lumps.&nbsp; 
 
Here's our <a data-item-id="2aa28ae0-20d8-5940-b9e4-4cadbaf45e05" href="">buttercream recipe</a> for you.

How to Create an Ombre Effect with Buttercream

Juliet Sear is a cake decorating expert. Here she shows us how to create a ranunculus flower out of buttercream.&nbsp;We use Silver Spoon icing sugar for our buttercream as it doesn't leave any clumps or lumps.&nbsp; 
 
Here's our&nbsp;<a data-item-id="2aa28ae0-20d8-5940-b9e4-4cadbaf45e05" href="">buttercream recipe</a>&nbsp;for you.

How to Create a Buttercream Ranunculus Flower

Juliet Sear shows us in this quick demonstration how to do create a beautiful camellia flower out of buttercream. This kind of effect is perfect for decorating cupcakes and larger celebration cakes.&nbsp; 
 
Take a look at our <a data-item-id="02f6382a-d0f5-58f7-8c17-0acd82570e30" href="">easy buttercream recipe</a>.

How to Create a Buttercream Camellia Flower

This buttercream rose technique really brings a cupcake to life. You can also use this technique to decorate a larger cake, such as a&nbsp;wedding cake! 
 
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Try out our <a data-item-id="2aa28ae0-20d8-5940-b9e4-4cadbaf45e05" href="">buttercream recipe</a>.

How to Create a Buttercream Rose

Our friend Juliet Sear is a cake decorating expert. Here she shows us how to create a rainbow buttercream and then how to pipe a cupcake using it. 
 
Here's our <a data-item-id="02f6382a-d0f5-58f7-8c17-0acd82570e30" href="">buttercream recipe</a>

How to Make & Pipe Rainbow Buttercream

Flood icing a biscuit is the perfect way to bring a plain biscuit to life. Juliet Sear shows us in this quick demonstration how to do this with a beautiful pattern on the top.&nbsp; 
 
Try out our <a data-item-id="2b1d1f3f-7ef5-5f96-a9fb-8b0906617beb" href="">basic biscuit dough recipe</a>.

How to Flood Ice

This video shows you two really easy ways to make piping bags yourself using baking parchment, and a sandwich bag. The sandwich bag method doesn't even require a nozzle! Perfect if you're caught short at home.&nbsp;

How to Make A Piping Bag

This simple tutorial shows you how to colour your fondant icing using food colouring. We recommend you use a gel colouring as these are much brighter than liquid colours.&nbsp;

How to Colour Fondant Icing

If you're thinking about decorating a cake with fondant icing and want to cover the board as well, we've got a helpful video which shows you step by step how to do this.&nbsp;

How to Cover a Cake Board with Fondant Icing

Bring a little bit of magic to your baking with these Harry Potter themed Golden Snitch Cupcakes.&nbsp;You don't have to be a wizard just follow our step by step guide.

How to Decorate Golden Snitch Cupcakes

Brushstroke cakes are really on trend&nbsp;right now and we have created a step by step photo guide on how to recreate this style for your next celebration cake.

How to Decorate a Brushstroke Cake

We all know that when it comes to covering a cake with either fondant or marzipan, it really helps to roll of your icing as circular as possible so that the whole of your cake is covered without any gaps. There is a simple technique that can help make this a bit easier just follow our how to guide below.

How to Roll Marzipan/Fondant Into a Circle

We love a bit of festive knitwear, but we love an edible Christmas Jumper biscuit even more. The garish the better. Why not make your jumper cookies look even more realistic by creating a knitted effect. These quick decorating hacks will show you how.&nbsp;&nbsp;