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Shades of Green Floral Cake

Make your cake come to life with amazing buttercream flowers with this Shades of Green Floral Cake. Using a variety of tips and piping techniques, you can turn a simple iced cake into an edible work of art. You can see this cake and many more in the How to Pipe Simple Icing Flowers kit, filled with lots of tutorials, inspiration and even a few must-have tools to make your treats blossom.
  • Skill LevelIntermediate
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Ingredients

  • Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe

  • Lemon Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.

  • Leaf Green Icing Color, 1 oz. - Green Food Coloring

  • Juniper Green Icing Color, 1 oz.

  • Royal Blue Icing Color, 1 oz. - Blue Food Coloring

  • Golden Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.

  • Sky Blue Icing Color, 1 oz.

  • Moss Green Icing Color, 1 oz.

  • White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb.

  • Ready-To-Use White Decorator Icing - 1 lb. Can

  • Tools

  • Round Cake Decorating Tip 2

  • Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack

  • Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 18

  • Standard Round Tip 2

  • Leaf Cake Decorating Tip 352

  • Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula

  • Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count

  • Leaf Tip 352

  • Standard Round Tip 8

  • Extra Large Drop Flower Tip 1B

  • Large Drop Flower Tip 2F

  • 1.5 Inch Flower Nail No7

  • Performance Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 6-Inch

  • 6-Inch Round Cake Boards, 10-Count

  • Pre-cut Icing Flower Making Squares

  • Standard Coupler

Instructions

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  1. Tint icing. Combine Juniper Green and Royal Blue icing colors to get dark spruce color shown. Combine Juniper Green and a touch of Royal Blue icing colors to get jade green color shown. Combine Royal Blue and Juniper Green icing colors to get dark pine green color shown. Combine Moss Green, Sky Blue and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get sea green color shown. Combine Moss Green and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get olive color shown. Combine Leaf Green and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get bright green color shown. Combine Lemon Yellow and Golden Yellow icing colors to get medium yellow color shown. Tint ½ cup vanilla decorator icing each dark spruce, pine green, sea green, olive green, bright green and medium yellow using color combinations provided.

  2. Prepare decorating bags. Prepare 2 bags with couplers. Fill one with yellow icing and tip 104, one with jade icing and tip 8. Prepare 5 decorating bags separately with tips 1G, 352, 1B, 18 and 2F. Fill bags as follows:

    • 1G – spatula stripe with jade and yellow icing
    • 352 – spruce green icing
    • 1B – spruce green icing
    • 18 – spatula stripe with bright green and olive green icing
    • 2F – spatula stripe with bright green and pine green icing

    • Pipe flowers. Using various tips and bags, pipe star drop flowers, swirl drop flowers, rosettes, leaf tip flowers and round tip flowers on waxed paper-covered squares; transfer to cake board. Freeze until set, about 30 minutes.
    • Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Using creamy decorator icing, fill and stack for 5 in. high cake.
    • Decorate cake. Arrange flowers on cake, starting at top and moving down in a diagonal line down front of cake. Fill in with additional tip 18 drop flowers and leaves.

Notes

How To

  • How to Pipe an Icing Star Drop Flower

    How to Pipe an Icing Star Drop Flower

    Pipe flowers with a simple straight up motion. Used sparingly, star drop flowers make delicate accents (especially those made with smaller tips) and are also great fill-in decorations. Using different tips will create different flower effects. Tip 1B is perfect for making hydrangeas, whereas tip 225 creates delicate blossoms.

  • How to Pipe Swirl Drop Flowers

    How to Pipe Swirl Drop Flowers

    Made by adding a simple twist motion, swirl drop flowers have petals with a bit more flair and dimension, leading to open-looking Blossoms.

  • How to Pipe A Rosette

    How to Pipe A Rosette

    Learn how to pipe beautiful rosettes, big and small, to add charming floral accents. Rosettes are a great way to create quick decorations. Different tips create different petal effects. Rosettes can be used to add a simple floral accent to a dessert, or cover a cake and cupcakes.

  • How to Make Petal Tip Flowers

    How to Make Petal Tip Flowers

    Whether creating small or large blossoms, petal tips are essential for creating lifelike flowers with great dimension.

  • How to Pipe Icing Leaves

    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 a Leafy Succulent

    How to Pipe a Leafy Succulent

    Learn how to pipe a buttercream leafy succulent.

  • How to Pipe a Succulent

    How to Pipe a Succulent

    Learn how to pipe a buttercream succulent.

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