Watch this video and see how easy it is to create your own buttercream succulents.
Ingredients
2 x 600g shop-bought mud cakes
buttercream (recipe below), with extra ½ cup icing sugar
green and purple food colouring
Buttercream
250 gram unsalted butter, softened
3 cup icing sugar, sifted
2 tablespoon milk
Method
1. Trim tops from cakes to level.
2. Divide buttercream between three bowls. Tint one with green colouring, one with purple and leave one bowl untinted.
3. Ice top and sides of the stacked cakes with untinted buttercream. Using piping nozzles, pipe flowers and shapes onto the top and sides of cake.
4. Dust with icing sugar before serving.
Buttercream
5. Use an electric mixer to beat butter as white as possible. Gradually beat in icing sugar and milk.
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