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Lemon Flower Design Buttercream Cake
Yellow Flower Buttercream Cake
To create this Lemon cake I used my American buttercream recipe and added Colour Mill Yellow. I smoothed the cake out with my favourite cake scraper. The top was smoothed off with a flex scraper and then using a 4B Nozzle I piped “shells” across the top and bottom. I decorated the cake with Edible Flowers some dried Lemon slices and a few chocolate pearls. To stick the flowers to the lemon I used piping gel.
This cake is so gorgeous and I really hope you enjoy it
Buttercream
I always do a double batch of buttercream as the mixer works better with more volume. (Any I don’t need I pop into a ziplock bag and goes into the freezer, or unto 3 months)
My Double Batch
500g Real Block Butter
1kg Sieved Icing Sugar (Icing Sugars with Corn Flour are smoother than “Maize/Corn Starch, check the back…I use Aldi Icing Sugar)
1-2 Tbsp Lemon Curd (I buy mine from the supermarket!!!)
Add soft to the touch butter and your “room temp”ganache to the mixing bowl with your lemon curd and beat on high for 5 mins then scrape down and mix again until the butter is looser and whiter in colour, around 5 to 10 mins more. I use Colour Mill yellow after the first scrape down to make the lemon colour pop.
Now add your sieved icing sugar into the mixer in 4 stages, this is important as it gives the butter a change to dissolve the icing sugar. Whip on low until the sugar is incorporated so you don’t look like a ghost!!! Then turn up to high for a min or so, when it is all smooth again, stop and add in the next amount of icing sugar. Repeat this process until you have added all of the icing sugar. Now beat on low for 5 mins then cover in cling and let it “rest” for around 2 hours ( overnight is best but we all need it faster sometimes)
Pop it back into the mixer and give it a final whip on low for 2 mins, it will be super smooth and delicious. If it is too thick take a few tablespoons out and microwave for 10 seconds and return to the mix just to smooth it out
Enjoy Jinny xxxx
Products used
Colour Mill Yellow https://tidd.ly/41TMx1U
Dried Edible Flowers https://tidd.ly/41B06D6
Lemon Slices https://tidd.ly/4kK1Xyb
Choco Pearls https://tidd.ly/41McW1t
4B Nozzle https://tidd.ly/4htYO2D
Cake Scrapers https://tidd.ly/4bfYpyo
Reusable Cake Board https://tidd.ly/4hrblnD
Flexi Scraper https://tidd.ly/3y0BJDx
