Sure to be a highlight of any July 4th get-together, this holiday cake is a real blast! It’s fun to pretend the red, white and blue rockets are about to explode with faux lit fuses and flying sparks.
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Makes: Cake serves 12.
instructions
Bake and cool cake. Trim off center doorway and turret
area of cake so that surface will be level for starburst message.
In advance, use royal icing to make 120 (40 each yellow, red, blue) Tip 16
stars on board covered with waxed paper. Make extras to allow for breakage
and let dry.
Ice sides and background area of cake smooth with chocolate buttercream icing.
Outline center starburst message area with Tip 3, fill in area with Tip 9
(smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Outline rockets with Tip 3 and
cover with Tip 16 stars.
Trim 5 lollipop sticks to staggered lengths; attach a yellow star to bottom
of each with icing. Insert sticks into bottom of cake.
For each star spray, twist 5 florist wires together at bottom. Randomly attach
stars to wires with royal icing. Insert flower spikes in cake and position
a star spray in each. Use Tip 3 to outline burst marks and to print message
on cake. Add Tip 21 star bottom border.