instructions
Tools:
Ingredients:
Use Royal Icing for the following: Make 84 tip 224 rose-colored drop flowers
with tip 2 dot centers. Make 10 (3 pink, 3 red, 4 yellow) tip 1B drop flowers
with tip 3 dot centers. Make tip 103 bow and streamers. Make extras to allow
for breakage and let dry.
Ice top half and sides of cake smooth. Using toothpick, mark pattern. Outline
face and gown with tip 3 strings. Pipe in mouth and eyes with tip 3; pipe in
nose with tip 4. Add tip 2 pull out eyelashes. Pipe in tip 4 shoes and inside
sleeves (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Cover cap, face, gown, and hands with tip 16 stars. Pipe tip 18, pull-out star
hair. Add tip 4 string tassel and flower stems. Position large flowers; add
tip 70 leaves. Position bow and streamers.
Pipe tip 21 shell bottom border. Attach small drop flowers over shells with
dots of icing.
YIELD: Serves 12.
Honor Roll Cake
Tools:
Ingredients:
Make fondant "ribbon" at least one day in advance. Tint 1/3 of fondant
to about 1/8 in. thick. Cut 6 strips (make extras to allow for breakage.) 3/4
in. wide and 5 to 7 in. long. Reserve remaining fondant. Loop 4 strings in half,
seal ends with water and lay on side to dry. For streamers, cut a "V"
on one end of strip: drape over large flower formers to dry.
Mold a variety of candies using "painting" method.
Bake cake following recipe directions, let cool. Unroll, fill with favorite
filling, re-roll. Lightly ice with buttercream. Roll out untinted fondant 1/8
in. thick and wrap around cake. Place on cake board with seam on bottom. Use
fondant smooother to smooth fondant on cake. Ice sides of cake resemble a scroll.
Roll out reserved fondant 1/8 in. thick. Cut a piece measuring 3/4 in. x 8
in. Attach one end to bottom seam with water, roll around center of cake and
attach other end. Attach loops and streamers to center strip with fondant. Cut
a strip of fondant 3/4 in. Wide to position across ends of loops to form center
knot.
Piper tip3 message and position Glowing Grad and candies.
YIELD: Serves 12.