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Ingredients:
Makes: Cake serves 12.
instructions
*Combine Brown with Red-Red for brown shown.
Bake and
cool cake. Trim 3/4 in. off height of carriage crown to accommodate
luggage. Ice sides and top of cake smooth; build up window and wheel
spoke areas. Use toothpick to mark 1 in. square window on door, 4 1/2 x
2 in. door and 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. windows on stagecoach. Outline
stagecoach with tip 5 and cover with tip 16 stars. Pipe tip 5 handle on
door. Pipe tip 6 driver's seat and side brake (smooth with finger
dipped in cornstarch). Use tip 5 to pipe wheel spokes, tip 10 to
outline wheels and tip 55 to pipe bands on wheel rims. Use tip 4 to
outline center of wheel and fill in with tip 6.
For heads in
windows, pipe tip 12 faces, tip 2 noses, eyes, moustaches, mouths and
hair. Pipe tip 6 hat with tip 102 brim and tip 2 hatband and tip 3 neck
scarf. Break graham crackers in various sizes for luggage and ice
smooth; score lines and needed with spatula. Pipe trims on luggage
pieces with tip 2. Attach luggage to top of cake with icing. Pipe tip
45 band above top of coach for storage area support. Overpipe tip 45
band for dimension and pipe side supports with tip 6.
Pipe tip 18 rope bottom border.