\nMake the white designs on the top of the cake:<\/strong> Base yourself on the design you created on paper. For this design use the white buttercream and a small round piping tip.Start by piping the outer shape of the sugar skull in the center of your cake. Then decorate the inside of the sugar skull adding eyes, a mouth and noise as well as some decorations like scrolls, dots and flowers. Then decorate around the sugar skull design again using different designs like flowers, scrolls, dots and stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"How](\"https:\/\/growingupbilingual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Depositphotos_224441680_XL-e1697578414491.jpg\")
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Pipe the border on the base of your cake<\/strong>. This cake has a pearl border but you can choose other types of borders like a shell border or a rosette border.<\/span>I like to put the border before I decorate around the cake so that I don\u2019t risk messing up any of the decorations if I brush against the cake with my piping bag. The border is a lot easier to fix if there is a mishap.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- Decorate the sides of your cake.<\/b> To decorate the sides of the cake use buttercream in different colors. As you did with the top of the cake you will want to have your design on paper first so that you can follow it.<\/span>\n
\n- Start placing sugar skull cake decorations. Place one on the front of the cake, another on the back of the cake and one on each side. These small sugar skull cake decorations served as the starting point and the focal point for the rest of the decorations.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Pipe your decorations. Use your sugar skulls as the focal points then decorate around them using different piping techniques including dots, rossetts, stars, flowers and combining them with loose scrolls and flower drawings. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Finish decorating the top of your cake.<\/strong> Pipe large swirls on the top. Using different colors of buttercream frosting pipe large swirls or stars. Leave some spade in between them. Don’t worry if part of the swirls covers some of the design on the top of your cake. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Add the candy sugar skulls.<\/strong> Finish decorating your cake by adding the candy sugar skulls placing them in between the frosting swirls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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