Calling all chicks! Use mini roll-out cookie dough cookies and mini ball cakes to make cute chick cakes for your springtime guests. These bright birds are covered in fluffy buttercream icing.
Source:
2007 Yearbook
Tools:
Ingredients:
Makes: Cake serves 1.
instructions
For each chick, cut, bake and cool 4 tulip cookies for wings and feet, bake and cool 1/2 mini ball cake for head.
For body,
slightly trim marshmallow vertically to lay flat on board.
Position head and body, cut side down, on a foil-wrapped cake board,
cut to fit.
Ice head and body fluffy. Pipe tip 16 pull-out feathers on wing cookies and top of head. Ice feet smooth.
Pipe tip 3
ball whites of eyes, pupils and cheeks (flatten and smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Ice mouth area smooth; add tip 3
outline beak, tapering lines to corners of beak.
Attach wings and feet to body with dots of icing.