Big Bruce Birthday Shark Cake

Instructions

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1. - Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cake in Wonder Mold pan.
2. -

   Tint frosting.

   • Tint 2 cups frosting dark grey by combining Delphinium Blue and Black icing colors to get the dark grey color shown
   • Tint 1/4 cup frosting black
   • Tint 1/4 cup frosting red
   Tint 1/4 cup frosting light red
   • Reserve remaining frosting white
3. - Pipe the shark mouth. Prepare a decorating bag with red frosting and cut 1 1/2 in. tip off the end of the bag. Pipe upside-down crescent shape, forming inside of shark mouth. Smooth using tapered spatula.
4. - Frost cake. Prepare a decorating bag with white frosting and cut 3/4 in. tip off the end of the bag. Pipe around outside of the mouth, then bottom half of the cake. Smooth with spatula.
5. - Using a spatula, ice remainder of cake with dark grey frosting, carefully blending dark grey and white line.
6. - Pipe shark teeth and gums. Prepare a decorating bag with tip 3 and white frosting. Pipe teeth and smooth with a spatula.
7. - Prepare a second decorating bag with light red frosting. Cut 1/2 in. tip off the end of the bag. Pipe lines on top and bottom of mouth for gums.
8. - Pipe the eyes. Using the wide end of tip 1A, mark circles for eyes in the dark grey frosting. If desired, remove frosting from the circle.
9. - Prepare a decorating bag with tip 1A and black frosting. Pipe in eyes and pat down with finger dipped in cornstarch.
10. - Make the nose. Using a finger dipped in cornstarch, make nostril holes.

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