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Hi, welcome to British Girl Bakes
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I'm going to show you how to decorate a cake that any mermaid lover will love
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First, we're going to make the mermaid decorations for this cake. I'm using a silicon mould to make a mermaid tail
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Rub it with shortening, dust it with powdered sugar, or you can use cornstarch
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and then push your fondant into it. I've mixed my fondant with a bit of tie-lip powder, so it firms up quickly
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Use a sharp knife to trim off any excess fondant, and then wiggle your mould to loosen the fondant
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And then peel the mould off to let the tail fall out, being especially gentle where the tail is narrowest
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And making two of these, and then brushing some water on the back to stick them together to make a complete tail
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After lining the two halves up, pinch them together to hide the join
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Put a wooden skewer into the middle to give it some support when you place it on your cake
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and leave it for a day to set. for a day to set. Once the tail is firm, I'm using a paintbrush dipped in turquoise gel
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colour to brush some shading onto it. I'm leaving that to dry, which only takes about an hour
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and then brushing on some pearl luster dust mixed with clear alcohol This makes the tail look glossy and shimmering
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Now I'm making some shells and starfish to place on my cake. I'm rolling fondant into little bowls, flattening them
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using my fingers to squeeze out the base of the shell, and then using a toothpick to indent the shell
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the shell. For the starfish, I'm rolling out balls of fondant and then pinching out five prong
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A small round tipfish gives the starfish some nice texture
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To make a conch, I'm rolling out a long string of fondant, brushing it with water to make it stick to itself, and then coiling it up
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And I rolling out a few balls for some added texture on the cake Now we going to build the cake
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The detailed instructions on how to do the Ombre frosting, watch my tutorial, How to Frost an Ombre Cake
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I'm spreading different shades of purple frosting onto my cake, smoothing the frosting
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and then applying some texture with an offset spatula. This is going to be a two-tier cake
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and the top tier is going to be turquoise, also with different shades in an ombre design, and with matching texture
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If you make a single cake instead of a two-tier, you can blend two colours together
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maybe blue and turquoise to represent the ocean, or you could do a single colour and apply this
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texture to be reminiscent of the waves. I'm stacking my cake and touching up where the two join
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And now I'm adding little white sugar pearls in a few places. You should do this immediately after frosting your cake, so they stick to the frosting
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because the frosting will crust after about 15 minutes, and then the pearls won't stick
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Now I'm applying some tiny purple sprinkles by throwing them at the cake
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Yes, I'm literally throwing them. Placing them on one by one would be insanely time-consuming
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so this works much better. I'm doing the same with tiny white sprinkles
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throwing them onto the sides of the cake in a few places Now it time to add the decorations we made earlier The Starfish which I painted with some gold luster dust mixed with clear alcohol and a purple shell
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And on top of the cake, I'm piping some rosettes using leftover turquoise frosting, and a star tip and an open star tip
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I used the frosting that I scraped off as I smoothed my cake, so it's a blend of the different
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shades, and that makes the rosettes blended as well. Very oceanic. placing the decorations on top of my rosettes to give them some height and make them more visible
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when you look at the cake from the side. Now for the mermaid tail. Hold it in front of the cake
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with the base of the tail at the height it will eventually be. Now mark where the stick would hit
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the baseboard of the cake and cut the stick. My mermaid is going to be diving into a rosette
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of frosting, so it looks like she's leaving a splash behind her. The stick will go in all the way
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down through the cake, supporting the tail so it doesn't fall over. T'da! A few more frosting rosettes using a small open start-up
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And a few more starfish and shells. And we're finished! The gorgeous mermaid cake
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