Stars & Stripes Celebration Cake
Additional Information
Step 1
Bake and cool cake completely. Position on a foil-wrapped cake board cut to pan shape.
Step 2
Prepare icing and tint 1/2 cup blue and 3/4 cup red; reserve 3 1/4 cups white (thin 1 3/4 cups with 1 teaspoon light corn syrup). Ice cake sides smooth and lightly ice cake top with thinned white icing and spatula.
Step 3
Using toothpick, mark 7/8 in. wide striped areas and blue field on cake top.
Step 4
Pipe stars with tip 18: use red icing in red stripe areas, white icing in white stripe areas.
Step 5
Fill in blue field with stars using tip 18 and blue icing. Use tip 18 and white icing to pipe stars on blue background.
Step 6
Use tip 21 and white icing to pipe star bottom border.
Products
Favorite cake recipe or mix
Royal Blue Icing Color
Red-Red Icing Color
corn syrup
Products
![Decorator Preferred 9" Angled Spatula](https://www.wilton.com/dw/image/v2/AAWA_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-wilton-product-master/default/dwdf994065/images/product/409-7698/409-7698DP9iAn11083 prd.jpg?sw=89&sh=89&sm=fit "Decorator Preferred 9" Angled Spatula")
13 x 19 in. Cake Board
Scissors
Toothpick
Plastic ruler
12 in. Disposable Decorating Bags
The star tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The serrated edges of the star tip make ridges in the icing as you squeeze it out. Because fill in requires so much piping from the same bag, keep replenishing icing in bag.