Dessert

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
Succulent cake garden
12
1H

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

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Ingredients

Buttercream

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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