Brimming With Roses Cake

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Meringue Powder
Garden Tone 4-Icing Colors Set
Juniper Green Icing Color
cornstarch
Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Buttercream Frosting
Royal Icing

Tools
1.5 Inch Flower Nail No7
Round Cake Decorating Tip 2
Round Cake Decorating Tip 2 $1.90
Round Cake Decorating Tip 5
Round Cake Decorating Tip 12
Petal Cake Decorating Tip 104
Leaf Cake Decorating Tip 352
Leaf Cake Decorating Tip #352, 1-Piece $1.90
8 x 3 in. Round Pan
Fanci-Foil Wrap
Cake Circle
Metal Spatula
Decorator Favorites Pattern Press Set
Waxed paper

Instructions

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Several days before decorating cake, make roses. Prepare 6 cups royal icing; tint 3 cups icing dark mauve and the remaining 3 cups light mauve. Using the flower nail, make 20 tip 104 roses with tip 12 bases in each shade. Let dry completely. Make extras to allow for breakage.
Bake and cool 1-layer round cake. Tort layers. Stack cake layers on foil-wrapped cake board using buttercream icing as a filling.
Spatula ice cake smooth with buttercream icing; let set about 15 minutes. Dip pattern press into cornstarch, then randomly imprint design on cake sides. Using buttercream, pipe tip 2 balls on imprinted areas. Add tip 5 bead bottom border. Pipe tip 12 mounds of icing at various heights on cake top; position roses on mounds. Pipe tip 352 leaves with green buttercream icing.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe Beads
The bead shape makes impressive borders outlines and accents on letters and designs; also a cute trim on clothing and gingerbread houses. The basis for making piped hearts and figure piping.
How to Pipe Buttercream Roses
Instantly elevate your dessert with an elegant buttercream rose. Made by layering petals on a flower nail, this blooming buttercream flower is easy to make once you get the hang of it! Use a standard petal tip and stiff buttercream frosting to make a whole garden of roses for your next baking project.