Stars and Rosettes Christmas Tree Cake

Instructions

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1. - Bake cake. Prepare chocolate cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool in tree cake pan.
2. -

   Tint icing. Using Leaf Green icing color, tint ½ cup icing light green. Using Kelly Green icing color, tint 1 cup icing medium green.

   Combine Kelly Green and Black icing colors to get dark green color shown. Combine Kelly Green and Teal icing colors to get teal color shown. Tint ½ cup icing dark green and 1 cup icing teal.

   Prepare decorating bags as follows:

   • Tip 21 and light green buttercream
   • Tip 32 and dark green buttercream
   • Tip 1M and medium green buttercream
   • Tip 4B and teal buttercream
3. -

   Decorate cake. Alternating bags, pipe stars and rosettes in various sizes to fill the cake, leaving the bark area plain.

   Top with jimmies.

How To

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.