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At Rest in the Field Cake
This gorgeous lamb cake rests in a field of multi-colored pansies. Use the Pansy technique and the Flower Former Set to grow your edible garden.
Ingredients:
- Easy-Add Rose Icing Color Add to shopping list Rose Icing Color
- Easy-Add Violet Icing Color Add to shopping list Violet Icing Color
- Easy-Add Lemon Yellow Icing Color Add to shopping list Lemon Yellow Icing Color
- Easy-Add Kelly Green Icing Color Add to shopping list Kelly Green Icing Color
- Easy-Add Brown Icing Color Add to shopping list Brown Icing Color
- Easy-Add Meringue Powder Add to shopping list Meringue Powder
Makes:
Cake serves 29.
Techniques Used:
Tools:
- Easy-Add Stand-Up Lamb Pan Set Add to shopping list Stand-Up Lamb Pan Set
- Easy-Add 13 x 9 7/8 in. Oval Pan Add to shopping list 13 x 9 7/8 in. Oval Pan
- Easy-Add Tip: 2 Add to shopping list Tip: 2
- Easy-Add Tip: 3 Add to shopping list Tip: 3
- Easy-Add Tip: 21 Add to shopping list Tip: 21
- Easy-Add Tip: 104 Add to shopping list Tip: 104
- Easy-Add Tip: 366 Add to shopping list Tip: 366
- Easy-Add Cake Boards Add to shopping list Cake Boards
- Easy-Add Fanci-Foil Wrap Add to shopping list Fanci-Foil Wrap
- Easy-Add 8 in. Spatula Add to shopping list 8 in. Spatula
- Easy-Add Flower Former Set Add to shopping list Flower Former Set
- Easy-Add Plastic Dowel Rods Add to shopping list Plastic Dowel Rods
- Easy-Add Flower Nail No. 7 Add to shopping list Flower Nail No. 7
- Waxed paper
Instructions:
Step 1
In advance, use royal icing and tip 104 to make approximately 84 pansies (12 each: violet, rose, white, yellow, rose/white, yellow/white, violet/yellow) with tip 2 string loop centers. Make extras to allow for breakage and let dry on flower formers.
Step 2
Bake 1-layer 13 x 9 7/8 in. oval cake and lamb cake. (Use a firm recipe such as pound cake for lamb.)
Step 3
Ice oval cake smooth with spatula. Insert dowel rods in oval cake where lamb will be positioned. Place lamb on cake board cut to fit bottom of lamb; position lamb on oval cake.
Step 4
Ice lamb's face smooth with spatula. Cover lamb with tip 21 rosette fur. Pipe tip 3 dot and string facial features. Attach pansies to cake with dots of buttercream icing. Pipe tip 366 leaves.
