Just-Picked Peony Cake

Just-Picked Peony Cake

See how much texture a gum paste peony can bring to your cake! With layer upon layer of ruffled petals, the peony is now easy to achieve using the Peony Gum Paste Cutter Set.
  • AmountCake serves 12.

Instructions

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  1. GUM PASTE COLOR TINTED:

    Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formula to tint gum paste in the following shade:

    Pastel Orange (formula 1355): 6 oz. gum paste + 1 BR + 2 O + 7 Y

    ICING COLOR TINTED:

    Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formula to tint icing in the following shade:

    Bright & Bold Teal (formula 3262): 6 cups icing + 24 B + 6 Y

  2. Make peony three days in advance. Tint 6 oz. gum paste orange. Excluding the last two rows of large petals, make one wired peony following instructions in cut-outs set. Let dry following instructions.
  3. Make layered cake. Bake and cool two 6 in. cake layers.
  4. Assemble and ice cake. Tint 6 cups icing teal. Level, fill and stack layers on cake pedestal, for a 2-layer cake, 6 in. high.

    Use spatula and icing to ice cake smooth, 3/8 in. thick on sides. Use multi-sized ridged comb to comb top 2 in. of cake.

    Insert peony in flower spike. Insert flower spike in edge of cake.

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