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Welcome to Clever Dough Cakes, today I’m going to show you how to make a silver YouTube Play Button Cake.
When a YouTuber reaches 100, 000 subscribers YouTube gives them a special Silver YouTube Video Play Button Award to honour their amazing achievement.
It would be so incredibly amazing to one day to reach this level. So, if you enjoy my videos and you haven’t already, then please help me reach this amazing goal and click on the subscribe button in the video above and make sure you hit the notification bell so you’ll be the first to know each time I release a new video for you. Thank-you so much to everyone who has already subscribed. I truly am so very honoured that you enjoy my videos.
Okay, now let me show you how to make a Silver YouTube Play Button Cake of your own!
My son, Quinn, helped me make this special cake for his birthday. He is a HUGE fan of watching YouTube Videos and so for his birthday cake I wanted to create a YouTube Play Button for him.
I was going to do the regular Red YouTube Play Button, you know that red arrow that you see on all YouTube videos that you have to click to start the videos? Yeah, that one!
But as my fellow cake decorating fans will know, making red fondant takes a LOT of red food colouring and will therefore make the fondant not taste very good and will leave your cake eaters with very red mouths!
A few months ago I got married and made my own Wedding Cake. My mother gave me this really fun edible silver dust to use on my wedding cake.
Since I still had a ton of the dust left, I decided to kick it up a notch and create a Silver Play Button cake instead for my son. That way he could have a cool YouTube cake, the fondant would still taste great, and nobody would end up with red stained mouths!
My son wanted a chocolate cake, with mocha buttercream icing and my special homemade marshmallow fondant to top it off!
While the cake was baking, he made the mocha buttercream icing and the
homemade marshmallow fondant.
After the cake had cooled, Quinn used my off-set spatula to loosen the cake from the cake pan and then turned the pan over to let the cake slide out.
We had used a casserole pan that was already very close in shape to the shape of the YouTube Play Button, so that made the shaping much easier to achieve.
All I had to do was remove the crust and shave down the edges to round out the Button shape like YouTube do on the Award they send out.
Then I cut out the play triangle on the top of the button so that later when I covered it in fondant that triangle would show through nicely.
I then sliced the cake in half and showered simple syrup on each layer to keep the cake nice and moist while we decorated it. We even created a homemade version of her famous “Sir Squeeze-a-lot” simple syrup bottle to shower it on evenly.
Then we layered the cake with the yummy Mocha Icing that my son had made.
Then after we put the two pieces back together, I crumb coated the cake so that all the little pieces would stick to the cake and not show through the icing later on.
After the cake had cooled in the fridge for about 10 minutes to let the crumb coat harden, I covered the whole cake with a nice thick layer of the Mocha Icing, that I had died grey to match the Silver YouTube Play Button. Then let that cool in the fridge for another 10 minutes to make it easier for putting on the fondant.
After it had hardened in the fridge, I smoothed the icing out even more, by using the back of a spoon that I warmed up in hot water, and dried off with a towel first before smoothing out the icing so as not to make the icing wet but to help melt it a little so that it would end up nice and smooth.
Another way to smooth out your butter cream icing is to warm up your hands, using hot water in a cup and holding the cup so your hands don’t get wet but get nice and warm, and then using your hands to smooth out the icing.
Then I rolled out the homemade marshmallow fondant that I had coloured grey to match the Silver YouTube Play Button. I rolled it out large enough to cover the entire cake in one piece.
Then using the rolling pin to hold the fondant I draped the marshmallow fondant over the cake, moved it into position before it stuck to the cake, and then quickly smoothed the fondant down around the top of the cake, especially smoothing it into the YouTube play triangle part and then smoothing it down the sides.
I pushed the fondant into the edges and then using a small paring knife I trimmed the excess fondant off. Then trimmed nice and close to the edge of the cake, pushing it down so that I was tucking the fondant under the cake as I went along to make a nice smooth rounded edge to the YouTube Play Button.
I balled up a piece of the trimmed off fondant and used that to smooth down the inside edges of the play triangle to create a nice clean edge.
My son then had fun spraying on the edible silver glitter dust all over the cake to make it sparkle like the real Silver YouTube Play Button Award does!
You just have to be careful not to breathe in the dust, especially anyone who has lung issues! I just sprayed a little, let the dust settle and then sprayed some more. That worked well. It did leave me with a very sparkly countertop!
The cake looked amazing!
One tip that we did learn though was to put on the sparkle dust either just before you serve it, or soon enough to the event so that you don’t need to chill the cake. If you chill the cake then when the cake warms up and the fondant starts to sweat it will make the dust melt and you end up with a freckled look like this.
It still looked cool, and everyone loved it.
My son was happy with his cake and his birthday guests not only loved how it looked they loved how yummy it was!
Nobody peeled off the fondant, like they usually do when we use store bought fondant. They loved how yummy the marshmallow fondant was too!
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And to thank-you for this blog post and watching the video right to the very end, head on over to www.CleverDoughCakes.com and you can download my “Floral Wedding Cake Magic” ebook for free, where I share my Yummy Homemade Marshmallow Fondant Recipe with you.
Enjoy!
Cheers … Amanda van der Gulik … Excited Life Enthusiast! :o)
