Basket of Blooms Cake

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A Basket of Blooms can cheer up anyone. Use the long loaf pan to create the flower box cake. “Plant” cookie flowers, attached to lollipop sticks, in the cookie crumb dirt.

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Cake serves 12.

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Instructions:

Step 1

Roll out dough and cut at least 12 cookies each using large and medium flower Cut-Outs. Bake and cool.

Step 2

Outline cookies with tip 3; flow in with thinned royal icing in cut bag. Let dry.

Step 3

Tint a portion of fondant green and roll out 1/8 in. thick. Cut at least 24 leaves using medium Cut-Out; let dry on flower formers dusted with corn starch.

Step 4

For stems, tint a little vanilla with green icing color and brush on lollipop sticks; let dry.

Step 5

Attach cookies and leaves to sticks with melted candy; if desired, sticks can be bent slightly to vary the look of the flowers.

Step 6

Lightly ice loaf cake smooth. Cover sides with basketweave, using tips 10 and 8. Pipe tip 10 rope top and bottom borders.

Step 7

Insert flowers in cake top, cutting sticks as needed to vary heights. Spread cookie crumbs on cake top to resemble dirt.

*Note: Combine Lemon Yellow with a little Golden Yellow for yellow shade shown; combine Violet with a little Rose for violet shade shown; combine Brown with a little Red-Red for brown shade shown.

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