AFRO QUEEN CAKE TUTORIAL! (Step by Step instructions on this Black Girl Magic theme in 2020!)

Hello everyone, it's Shana with love and

cake

and I'm back with another video. Another hobby I have is acrylic painting and I thought: how about I make a pastel replica of a painting I did a couple of years ago? To start, in

this

case I'm using a seven inch three layer

cake

and you can use any size cake as long as it has at least three layers to give you the height you need and here is the buttercream that I made. For

this

, make sure you have a cake leveler, a spatula, the icing colors that I used for this will be purple, pink, yellow, of course, you can use any color you want and then I'll use a little bit. of orange too and then for the hair I'm going to use

black

and brown for the hair we're also going to use a 1m piping tip but you can also use a 2d piping tip and then a Wilton white font pack with a little bit of gold. bling bling for the edges, which is optional.

However, I love ling-ling and then for me, I use Crisco to roll out my fondant, but I know other people can use cornstarch. I don't like cornstarch, this is my preference and then make sure I have a small rolling pin for rolling out fondant, a small cutter, a food safe brush, a bench scraper to smooth out the icing and then since I'm lazy and don't feel like To make a crown, I buy my princess crowns, but if you want to make your own. crown you can and then a little bit of gold spray and if you have some cake glitter you can use that too so first before I put my cakes down I put a little bit of icing on so the cake sticks to the board.

When we're frosting it now just because it's a demo cake, I wanted to use whatever frosting I had on hand and it was actually like a light strawberry frosting, so if you see little flecks of strawberry skin, strawberry flesh, that's what what is it. they're strawberries so what I'm doing is just filling each layer with the frosting and then I'm going to make a crumb coat if you're not free with a crumb coat which is a thin layer of frosting that you used to frost the First place the case so that the cake crumbs get trapped in that first thin layer before applying the final layer.

Now with the crumb coat, remember to make sure you scrape off the excess frosting and place it in a different bowl that you're not going to put it in. the container where you're going to use the final frosting because you don't want to end up with crumbs in that final frosting, so make sure that whatever frosting you're scraping off, you put it somewhere else and not somewhere else. your original bowl of frosting and then what I like to do is take a paper towel with my parchment paper and then go around the edges to wipe them off and then once I have my crumb coat, I'll put it in the refrigerator. or in the freezer, there's a weird angle in the refrigerator, but keep it in the refrigerator for at least 10 to 15 minutes so we can harden it in the meantime, while it's in the refrigerator setting up, I'm going to start coloring the frosting. which I'm going to use and like I said, I'm using pink purple and yellow, but have fun and use any color.

In fact, when I make this cake again, I'll use a few different colors and have a little more fun. with it, so in one bowl I'm going to put purple and pink in the next. Now with this particular pink, I didn't want it to be a pain. I wanted it to be something like a sunset pink, so I finished it. What I did was get a little bit of red and then mix it in the bomb, so sometimes you just have to play with the color mix to get the color you're looking for and then I also took a little bit of my purple frosting.

I also put on some purple icing so as you can see I got a dull pink color and then for my yellow I wanted a gold ring so even though this says golden yellow what I did was mix in a little bit of that yellow gold and then I added a little bit of orange too because I wanted a deep golden yellow so feel free to play around with your colors until you get the desired color that you're looking for and then what I do. What I'm going to do with my crown is I'm going to remove those little cones and by the way, you can get these little crowns at the dollar store Walmart Hardy City, your cake supply store has three princess crowns and then what I do .

What I would like to do is take a little bit of my gold pastel that makes my gold highlighter and then I mixed in a little bit of alcohol so I can turn it into paint and then what I like to do is paint it gold if I actually have the Wilton gold spray. I will say that I once tried spraying gold and didn't really get the result I was looking for so I prefer to just paint it gold or like I said if you want to make your own wreath by hand. you are free to do so.

I hate making wreaths so I took the cake out of the refrigerator and as you can see it's firm so I'm going to start at the base of the cake so this cake will have three colors. I'm putting a golden yellow on the bottom of the spatula and I'm going around all over the place and for this I don't want to have pressure lines because I want the colors to blend together, so next I'm going to go ahead and put my next color right on top of that and then I'm going to put my last color and I'm going to start by putting it on top and then getting the top of the cake, now what I'm doing here I'm showing you how I made a lip when I put the frosting on top of the cake, like this that on the purple one, look how there is a border of frosting around the top which will be how you achieve the smooth corners on the top of the cake. and I'm going to show you how you do it, so the next thing I'm going to do is grab our bench scraper and I didn't want to show you.

I didn't actually want to move my camera angle, so I won't show it to you. in this part, but what I'm doing is I'm running hot water and running the bench scraper under the hot water and then I take it and then I press it lightly against the cake, so what it does is it smooths out. I see that your cake and the heat is softening so what I do is I turn the cake until it's completely smooth and every time I take it, what I'm doing is I take the bench scraper and then I put it back under the hot water so as you can see we got a pretty nice sky effect with the frosting there and then I take the napkin under the bench scraper and when I'm running it along the bottom of the cake. so we can get that frosting and clean up that order and then what we're going to do next is have the bullet, the lip, the roots of the frosting and then I'm going to take my spatula and start from the outside and then push it towards the center, from the outside. outwards, so see how I clean the top and the cake that way.

This is the easiest way to do this and then what I'm doing is running the spatula under the hot water. also so you can see how the heat of the hot water is actually forming the top of the cake and that's it, shake it perfectly well, so next I'm going to take out the white fondant and any skin tone that you really want to color. I leave this, I'm going to take my brown mixture, a little bit of brown in the fondant, now what I do and like I said, other people do this differently, but I take a little bit of my butter, I rub it on the table and a little of the outline thermal powder or tylose powder and I use a little bit there to make the fondant a little firm so I only need the brown one and two fondant, I add a little more shortening to My hands on the table so that the fondant didn't stick to the table or my hands, but there are a lot of bakers who like to use cornstarch and it's just your preference on what you like to use.

I don't like my fat search. I've always used vegetable shortening so I'm more comfortable with that and then once you get the shade you're looking for, go ahead and spread it out. I would say spread it out to the size of a pancake. I don't want to roll it out too thin to where the fondant will start to tear when you try to cut it. Now when I'm cutting the face, I give it away freely, so it's hard for me to really explain how I'm doing it. All I can do is show you at the end of this video, although I left a note saying if you want to email me and then you can PayPal me or cash me a dollar and I'll be happy to do that.

Email yourself the template if you want to use it to crop it, but I'm actually free handing the face on the body and the best way I can explain free handing is what I do is I cut out how I think it should look. and then I bring it up to the cake to see if it's a good size, as you can see, I'm putting the head on it and I'm trying to see if it's too big, too small, or if it's So this here is the neck and the shoulders and then I put the head on it.

I also like to take my fingers and then rub them along the edge to soften it once I cut it too and then I decided to use white for the dress. Now what I'm doing here is I'm not pushing it at all. I'm just putting it lightly on top so I can see the outline of the body and then I'm tracing it lightly. how I want the dress to be, so I'm not going to cut it out all the way, I'm just doing a light stroke so you can see how I traced it there and then I'm going to remove it from the body and then I'm going to go ahead and cut that sheep, like I said at the end.

You will have my email. If you want to email me, I will email you the template that you can use so you can trace it and cut it out. If you don't feel comfortable topping it on, it's very easy, there you go and then I'm doing the lips to get that shade. I used pink and purple. I used red and purple. I'm sorry. a little bit of red fondant, a little bit of purple fondant, I mixed it together to get an almost plum-like color for the lips and I'm also drawing the lips freehand and then I wanted to give her full, puckered lips and so what I'm doing here is making little caterpillar sized shades of fondant and like I said the thing about free ending is you really just have to play with it until it looks how you want so don't adhere anything to the cake and I see you have it looking like you want it to show sometimes I say, okay, I mean the lips are too big, let me make them a little smaller or I did them later, mom, let me make them bigger, so you just have to play with them.

So you keep cutting it and adjusting it until you get them to look how you want them to look. Now you can close her lips or with this cake I decided to separate her lips a little bit, so I took a little bit of white. fondant and I cut a small piece and then I put the lips on top so that there was a little bit of white showing them in the middle of her lips as if they were her teeth and I took that brush that I have and I'm putting just a little bit of water there so that so it sticks so there you have it I also have a little bit of pink luster powder and what I'm doing is I'm taking the brush and I'm giving it a little bit. rosy cheeks you can use like a dark pink or a red if you want to give it blessed cheeks so once you feel like you have the body how you want it in the head you can go ahead and put it on the cake, now my frosting.

It was still soft and sticky, so I didn't have to use water to stick it there; Otherwise, if your cake has already set, you may have to use a little water to make it stick there and then. I'm going to take my 1m pipe tip. I'm not going to put it in my piping bag here and remember you can actually use a 1m one. Sometimes I use a 2d because they are essentially the same, only in the 2d the spokes are curved. inwards, so it gives you a little difference in the result of the pipes, but they are still essentially the same in my opinion.

Also, I didn't show this part. I forgot to show it when I went to do the hair. I used a little bit of my purple icing, so what I did was take more

black

icing. Sorry, I put a little bit of black food coloring and brown food coloring in the purple frosting to let the air in, so just FYI when you're looking. on her hair and you're thinking it's not completely black because I used purple, so her hair has a little bit of a purple tone. Okay, make sure you have your bag secured when you go to channel it and then I'm going to start piping from the corner of her neck and her shoulder and it's best to do the outline of her hair first and then fill it in at the end and then make sure to be aware of how stupid you are doing it. you want to make sure you give it a full

afro

and not a tight

afro

where it looks like it has a high fade and then you're just going to do little short squeezes and then with this one I didn't.

I want the eyes to show. I didn't want the nose to show, so I'm putting a trim in her hair to make it look like she has bangs going down. Now the way you squeeze the piping bag, you'll get different looks on the hair when I'm squeezing it, it's hard to tell, but when I squeeze it I'm making a small short circle, if you can see, look how I'm making a small circular motion. short. In fact, I love the colors. I love how her hair. It's just a faint purple shade, but you can make your hair completely round if you want, you can make your hair completely black if you want, so it's whatever style you're going for and have in your hair.

You can put the crown on it and then I'm going to give it some earrings so what I'm going to do is take some white fondant and then I'm going to do it.in a circle to make it look like she has hoop earrings. there and I'm going to take some of that gold paint that I still have and then I'm going to paint the earrings gold and I'm going to glue them right where her ears should be. Now what I did here was I took some of that Wilton gold spray and I sprayed a light mist on it.

Now the thing is that I do it with that gold spray. Don't spray it directly on the cake, hold it back about a foot and then spray it for a light sheen and then I take a little bit of my gold cake glitter and then I just sprinkle a little bit of cake gold. there to give it a shiny effect and then also add a little bit more detail to it. I'm taking my gold brush and then I'm doing some little gold flecks on the side, there you go. I love how this turned out. I've made so many clean afro cakes that I actually have one that went viral a couple of years ago but I did it a different way and then I made a bunch where it's just an edible image that I'm not even doing the facing to myself.

I'm just printing out an edible image of a face and putting it on there, which is super easy, but it's a lot more fun to just draw the face freehand so it looks different every time. I love those full lips, look at those little ones. lips and then I also took a black edible marker and outlined where his shoulder should be, so if you want to do that, you can give him a little bit of neckline. Here I just learned, look at the shiny hair, yeah, love, love. I love it, thank you all for watching, tune in again.

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