Name: Buttercream succulent plant cake
Prep time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 12
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

Buttercream succulent plant cake

Indulge in the most delicious trend of the year with this buttercream succulent cake recipe. All you need is store-bought cakes and some nifty piping nozzles to create this 'grammable dessert

Watch this video and see how easy it is to create your own buttercream succulents.

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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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