Entering the Fold Cake

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Create an edible baptismal record to share at post-christening gatherings. Use our Decorating Comb to create a paged effect on an iced Book Pan cake bearing a personalized passage.

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Cake serves 24.

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Instructions:

Step 1

In advance, use royal icing to make 75 tip 101s forget-me-nots with tip 1 dot centers (25 each violet, yellow, blue). Let dry.

Step 2

Use royal icing to pipe a tip 12 disc, 1 3/4 in. diameter, on waxed paper (to be used as stand for cross). Let dry. Attach cross to disc with royal icing.

Step 3

Thin down blue royal icing with water and "paint" doves with brush; let dry.

Step 4

Ice cake smooth in buttercream; comb sides. Pipe tip 2 vines on cake top edge. Position flowers and add tip 352 leaves.

Step 5

Pipe tip 2 dots around vines and flowers. Pipe tip 401 ruffle bottom border. Pipe a tip 12 mound of icing as base for cross; position cross on royal disc.