Going out on Top Cake

Going Out On Top cake will have the retiree flying high! Sure to land you a lot of compliments, this 3-D design uses simple techniques and a shaped cookie figure for the passenger.

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Makes: Cakes serve 13.

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instructions

Combine Violet and Rose for violet shown.

Tint cookie dough copper. Roll out and cut girl using cookie cutter; trim cookie just below arms; bake and cool.

Pipe tip 3 reverse shell hair and pull-out fingers. Outline and pipe in tip 3 shirt; pipe in tip 2 mouth and outline eyes.

Bake and cool jumbo muffin for basket and soccer ball for balloon. Divide balloon in thirds; ice top smooth to round off.

Cover balloon with tip 18 stars. Pipe tip 789 smooth side up banner; print tip 3 message. Cut basket vertically in half; ice smooth.

Pipe tip 6 basketweave around basket; add tip 6 rope border at top edge.

Cut marshmallow in half; position girl cookie and attach to basket with buttercream.

Cut 12 in. lengths of curling ribbon; attach between balloon and basket with buttercream.