YAY for You Cake

Instructions

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1. -

   Bake cake.

   Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Divide equally into prepared pans. Bake and cool. Level cakes to tops of pans. Remove from pans and cool completely.

2. -

   Ice cake.

   Prepare disposable decorating bag with tip 2A and creamy white icing. Pipe around top edge of first cake layer; fill in. Using spatula, smooth icing. Top with second cake layer. Repeat until cake is stacked. Spatula ice cake smooth.

3. -

   Tint icing.

   Combine Royal Blue and Black icing colors to get navy color shown. Using icing colors, tint 1/8 cup icing each green, yellow, pink, burgundy, violet and teal. Using color combination provided, tint ¼ cup icing navy. Reserve remaining icing white.

4. -

   Decorate cake.

   Prepare six disposable decorating bags with tip 5; fill separately with green, yellow, pink, burgundy, violet and teal icing. Prepare additional decorating bag with tip 7 and navy icing. Prepare final decorating bag with tip 5 and white icing.

   Using tip 5 bags, pipe dots around cake. Using tip 5 bag with white icing and heavy pressure, pipe “YAY!” on front of cake. Outline message using tip 7 and navy icing.

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