Spatulas
Sparkling Spruce Cake
Deck the tree with boughs of bright icing and set the season all aglow. This festive fir trimmed with pearl garlands and frosted in snow icing highlights reflects the simply beauty of the holiday.
Ingredients:
- Easy-Add Christmas Red Icing Color Add to shopping list Christmas Red Icing Color
- Easy-Add Lemon Yellow Icing Color Add to shopping list Lemon Yellow Icing Color
- Easy-Add Kelly Green Icing Color Add to shopping list Kelly Green Icing Color
- Easy-Add Royal Blue Icing Color Add to shopping list Royal Blue Icing Color
- Easy-Add Black Icing Color Add to shopping list Black Icing Color
- Easy-Add Violet Icing Color Add to shopping list Violet Icing Color
- Easy-Add Orange Icing Color Add to shopping list Orange Icing Color
- Easy-Add Brown Icing Color Add to shopping list Brown Icing Color
- Easy-Add Cake Sparkles™ Add to shopping list Cake Sparkles™
- confectioners' sugar
- Tea Strainer
Makes:
Cake serves 12.
Tools:
- Easy-Add Treeliteful pan Add to shopping list Treeliteful pan
- Easy-Add Tip: 1 Add to shopping list Tip: 1
- Easy-Add Tip: 3 Add to shopping list Tip: 3
- Easy-Add Tip: 5 Add to shopping list Tip: 5
- Easy-Add Tip: 2B Add to shopping list Tip: 2B
- Easy-Add Tip: 18 Add to shopping list Tip: 18
- Easy-Add Tip: 233 Add to shopping list Tip: 233
- Easy-Add White Pearl Beading (4mm) Add to shopping list White Pearl Beading (4mm)
- Easy-Add Cake Boards Add to shopping list Cake Boards
- Easy-Add Fanci-Foil Wrap Add to shopping list Fanci-Foil Wrap
- Easy-Add Small Tapered Spatula Add to shopping list Small Tapered Spatula
Instructions:
Step 1
Bake and cool cake. Ice background areas and sides of cake smooth. Pipe tip 18 string tree trunk. Cover tree with tip 3 and 233 pull-out needles. Attach pearl beading in one strand, starting at top and draping at varied intervals. Overpipe some pearls with tip 233 pull-out needles. Add tip 3 bead lights.
Step 2
Pipe tip 5 drifted snow around tree trunk and on boughs, shaping icing with small tapered spatula. Sprinkle snow with Cake Sparkles. Pipe tip 2B band at bottom border. Edge band with tip 5 beads. Add tip 3 zigzag garland. Pip tip 1 snowflakes and dots. Place confectioners sugar in tea stainer and dust top of tree.
Note: To achieve the icing colors shown, follow these formulas: Royal Blue and Violet combined produces the blue shade; Kelly Green, Black and Royal Blue combined produces the green shade.
