Beginner
Just Peachy Keen Celebration Cake
Your guests will be tickled "peach" when you serve this sweet-looking cake! The top of the cake is decorated in overlapping piped leaves, which gives it a fun look perfect for birthdays, anniversaries or Mother's Day.
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AmountCake serves 12.
Ingredients
Favorite cake recipe or mix
Buttercream Frosting
Creamy Peach Icing Color
Pink Sugar Pearls, 5 oz.
Tools
6 x 2 in. Round Pan
13 Inch Round Non-Stick Cooling Rack
8 in. Cake Circles
Fanci-Foil Wrap
food-safe scissors
Tape
Decorator Preferred 13 inch Angled Spatula
12 in. Disposable Decorating Bags
Leaf Cake Decorating Tip 352
Round Cake Decorating Tip 3
Plastic ruler
Instructions
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- Make cake one day in advance. Prepare batter following recipe directions. Bake and cool cake. Cake is two-layers, 4 in. high. Place on a foil wrapped cake circle.
- Ice cake. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Tint peach. Use spatula and icing to Use spatula to ice cake smooth.
Decorate cake. Use tip 352 and icing to pipe leaves around the top outer edge of cake. Continue piping leaves, overlapping leaves in a spiral direction to cover the top of cake completely.
Use tip 3 and icing to pipe dots 1 1/4 in. apart on side of cake. Immediately position pink Sugar Pearls.
Use tip 3 and icing to pipe bead bottom border.
Notes
How To
How to Pipe Icing Leaves
Make a simple, versatile leaf to add realistic details to flowers. Leaf tips can also be used to make simple flowers, such as sunflowers.
How to Pipe Beads
The bead shape makes impressive borders outlines and accents on letters and designs; also a cute trim on clothing and gingerbread houses. The basis for making piped hearts and figure piping.
How to Pipe Dots
Perfect for classic borders or cloudlike decorations, dots are a versatile technique that can be piped in a range of sizes. The dot technique can be used as a simple border for cakes and cookies, as well as for icing cupcakes or piping meringues.
