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1. Under the Sea in Buttercream
We are delighted to share with you this amazing Under the Sea in Buttercream tutorial from Valeri Valeriano from the Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes. Christina shares a spectacular array of Spring buttercream flowers with lots of helpful hints and tips along the way.
Under the Sea in Buttercream
We are delighted to share with you this amazing Under the Sea in Buttercream tutorial from Valeri Valeriano from the Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes. Christina shares a spectacular array of Spring buttercream flowers with lots of helpful hints and tips along the way.
TOP TIPS
Crumb coat, cover and decorate your 2 halves of cake on 2 separate cake boards.
Always make sure that the tip of your seamless piping bag is touching the surface of your cake.
You may use a small Wilton leaf tip if you prefer rather than recreating a V-shaped seamless piping bag.
Squeeze + Wiggle = Squiggle
On doing the Red Orange and Green corals, make sure that you don’t pipe them in even, straight lines.
On doing the Yellow corals, make sure that you build up as you squeeze before you pull away.
For the bright Green corals (using the Wilton 102), the narrow end of the piping tip has to be at the bottom and wide end on top. You may pipe them directly on the cake or freeze them.
On doing the waves, the narrow end of your piping tip is on top, piping at a 20-30deg angle. Use the squiggle method.
Using your dry, rounded flat brush, brush the Blue part of your buttercream only, direction is going down.
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Valeri Valeriano & Christina Ong
Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes is a multi-award winning cake company based in London. Founded in June 2011, the company is headed by cake artists and best friends, Valeri and Christina. It was by sweet accident that these ladies discovered their passion and talent. On Mother’s Day 2011, they wanted to give their two friends whom they consider their “second-mums” something special but not expensive and decided to bake for them...and they have never stopped since. Renowned globally for their edible works of art using nothing else but buttercream as their decorating medium, Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes has been featured in numerous well known blogs, local and international news, magazines, TV Shows and have showcased their masterpieces as well as demonstrated in some of UK’s biggest exhibitions. Valeri and Christina take immense pride in their mastery of buttercream and their goal is to revive and modernize this age-old art.
