Fall Leaves Cake

Instructions

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1. -

   Bake cakes.

   Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Divide batter into three equal portions.

   Using Orange tint one portion of batter orange.

   Using Golden Yellow, tint one portion of batter golden yellow.

   Using Lemon Yellow, tint one portion Yellow

   Bake and cool three cake layers. Trim each layer to 1 in. high.

2. -

   Tint icing.

   Using Black icing color, tint 4 cups icing black.

   Using black icing, fill, stack and ice 3 cake layers smooth.

3. -

   Tint icing in different shades.

   Using orange, golden yellow and lemon yellow, tint six.

   1/3 cups of icing into various shades of red, orange and yellow.

   For vine, tint ¼ cup icing very light red using Christmas Red icing color.

4. -

   Decorate cake.

   Using a toothpick, lightly draw leaf design on top of cake.

   Prepare seven decorating bags with tip 2.

   Fill separately with various shades of red, orange, very light red and yellow icing.

   Using thin lines, pipe vines, then leaves, then fill in the leaf designs.