Poinsettia-Decked Mini Cakes

Poinsettias are the flower of the season. Made with Creamy Decorator Icing, then placed on a mini fluted tube cake, they add a festive holiday touch to your sweets table.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Easy Chocolate Cake
confectioners' Sugar
6 in. waxed paper square
Tea Strainer

Tools
Ready-To-Use White Decorator Icing - 1 lb. Can
Color Right Performance Food Coloring Set
12-Inch Disposable Decorating Bags, 12-Count
Large Leaf Cake Decorating Tip 366
Round Cake Decorating Tip 2
Non-Stick Mini Fluted Tube Pan, 12-Cavity
Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 18
1.5 Inch Flower Nail No7
Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula

Instructions

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Icing Colors Tinted
Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formulas to tint icing in the following shade:
- Winter Red: ½ cup white icing + 10R
- Reserve remaining icing white
Tint icing. Prepare a decorating bag with tip 366 and white icing. Prepare a second decorating bag with tip 2 and red icing.
Make poinsettias. Attach waxed paper square to flower nail with dot of icing. Pipe tip 366 white icing leaves for poinsettia flower petals. Pipe tip 2 red icing dots in center of flower. Remove flower on waxed paper from flower nail. Repeat to make 11 more poinsettias. Let flowers air dry overnight.
Bake and cool chocolate cakes.
Decorate cakes. Sprinkle confectioners’ sugar from strainer over cakes. Prepare a decorating bag with tip 18 and white icing; pipe swirl in center of cake.

Carefully remove poinsettia from waxed paper; attach to cake.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe a Poinsettia
The classic Christmas Poinsettia may be piped in white, pink or red. It's one of the more shallow flowers piped in the lily nail. Don't push foil more than halfway into the cup.
How to Pipe Dots
Perfect for classic borders or cloudlike decorations, dots are a versatile technique that can be piped in a range of sizes. The dot technique can be used as a simple border for cakes and cookies, as well as for icing cupcakes or piping meringues.