Make it Mint Petal Flower Cake
Celebrate spring with this beautiful Make it Mint Petal Flower Cake. Decorated with icing flowers and beautiful mint green icing, this 2-layer cake is perfect to serve for Mother's Day brunch or a small bridal shower. 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.
Ingredients
Lemon Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.
Kelly Green Icing Color, 1 oz.
Sky Blue Icing Color, 1 oz.
White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb.
Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Tools
1.5 Inch Flower Nail No7
Black Angled Icing Spatula, 9-Inch
Performance Pans Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 8-Inch
Petal Cake Decorating Tip 104
Pre-cut Icing Flower Making Squares
Standard Round Tip 8
12-Inch Disposable Cake Decorating and Pastry Bags, 100-Count
10 x 16 Non-Stick Cooling Rack
8-Inch Cake Circles, 12-Count
Instructions
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Pipe flowers. Prepare decorating bag with tip 104 and white icing. Using flower nail and pre-cut waxed paper squares, pipe about 20 petal flowers; transfer to waxed paper-covered board. Vary pressure to achieve flowers of various sizes.
Using Lemon Yellow icing color, ting 1/2 cup icing yellow. Prepare decorating bag with tip 8 and yellow icing. Pipe centers on flowers.
Freeze flowers until firm, about 2 to 4 hours.
- Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers.
Tint icing. Tint 3 1/2 cups icing light mint green using color combination provided. Fill, stack and ice cake smooth using light mint green icing.
*Combine Kelly Green and Sky Blue icing colors to get light mint green color shown.
- Decorate cake. Remove paper squares from flowers. Arrange flowers in crescent along top edge of cake. Use leftover icing, if necessary, to attach flowers.
Notes
How To
How to Add a Center to Flowers
To add a realistic touch to icing flowers, use round or star tips to pipe flower centers.
How to Make Petal Tip Flowers
Whether creating small or large blossoms, petal tips are essential for creating lifelike flowers with great dimension.
