Ready for a speedy cake delivery for your holiday party? Use quick and easy decorating techniques--ice the cake in buttercream icing, add tinted shredded coconut and candy features on top. Finish with a spice drop candy border!
Source:
2002 Yearbook
Tools:
Ingredients:
- Buttercream icing
- Large chocolate nougat candies
- Black shoestring licorice
- coconut, shredded
- spice drops
Makes: Cake serves 12.
Techniques Used:
instructions
In advance, tint enough coconut to cover cake top: Place coconut in a plastic bag, add a few drops of brown color and knead into coconut until color is evenly blended.
Ice sides and background areas of cake smooth. Add a little red color to light brown icing to achieve shade used.
Pipe-in inside of ear, patch around eye and white of eye with tip 2.
Roll out one nougat piece with rolling pin and position for pupil. Add tip 2 dot eye highlight.
Roll another nougat piece into a ball and position for nose. Pipe tip 1A antlers; add tip 1A band around base of cake.
Place tinted coconut on top of cake and white coconut around base. Cut and position licorice mouth and eyelashes.
Position spice drops and bow.