Polka Dot Birthday Cake

I spot a birthday cake! Decorated with colorful dots, this Polka Dot Birthday Cake is great for birthday celebrations young and old! Customize your cake with a personalized message or add a birthday candle to make this cake perfect for your party. Use pouched icing to decorate your cake and you'll have a tasty treat that's party ready in no time!

Skill LevelBeginner

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Green Icing Pouch with Tips
Buttercream Frosting
Red Icing Pouch with Tips

Tools
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Cake Marker
Ruler
Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 6 x 3-Inch
Decorator Preferred 13 inch Angled Spatula

Instructions

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Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Trim one layer to 2 in. high.
Prepare icing. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe instructions. Fill and stack cake layers for 5 in. high cake. Ice cake smooth.
Decorate cake. Using cake marker, starting ½ in. from bottom of cake, mark 1 in. segments, vertically and horizontally, around cake.
Prepare all pouched icings with round tip. Starting with yellow icing, pipe row of dots around cake, using 1 in. marks as guide. Repeat with orange, red, blue and green icing.
Pipe border. Pipe row of dots around top edge of cake, alternating between colored icing and white icing.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe Dots
Perfect for classic borders or cloudlike decorations, dots are a versatile technique that can be piped in a range of sizes. The dot technique can be used as a simple border for cakes and cookies, as well as for icing cupcakes or piping meringues.