Rosebud Cake

This towering rosebud cake is a tribute to all who love flowers and beautiful colors! Perfect for all occasions: birthdays, showers, gal get-togethers and garden parties.

Skill LevelBeginner

Amount12 servings

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite cake mix or recipe (6 cups batter needed)
White Sugar Pearls
Pearlized Gold Sprinkle Mix
Royal Blue Icing Color
Rose Icing Color
Kelly Green Icing Color
Buttercream Icing (5 ¼ cups needed)

Supplies
6 x 3 in. Baking Pans
Aluminum Bakeware Round Cake Pan 6x3 Inch $14.29
Cooling Grid
Disposable Decorating Bags
Decorating Tip 104
Decorating Tip 1M
Decorating Tip 4
Round Cake Decorating Tip 4 $1.90
13 in. Angled Spatula
11 in. Spatula

Instructions

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Bake Cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Trim to 2 ½ in high each. Fill and stack cake layers for a 5 in. tall cake.
Tint Icing Tint 3 cups icing blue using Royal Blue and some Rose. Tint 1/4 cup green, tint 1/2 cup rose, reserve 1 ½ cups white.
Ice Cake Ice cake smooth in blue icing.
Decorate Cake. Use tip 104 and rose icing to pipe 4 rows of alternating rosebuds, 2 in. apart on cake sides. Use tip 4 and green icing to pipe calyxes. Attach sugar pearls and jimmies from sprinkles mix to cake sides. Use tip 1M and white icing to pipe small swirls on cake top.