Easy Birthday Cake with Colorful Polka Dots

Cheerful polka dots make this two-tier birthday cake even happier. You can easily decorate the same dot pattern on a one-tier store-bought cake simply with Wilton Decorator Icing Pouches With Tips.

Amount36 Servings

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

12 1/2 cups of your Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Buttercream Frosting
Green Icing Pouch with Tips

Tools
6 x 2 in. Round Pan
8 x 2 in. Round Pan
Cake Leveler, Small, 10-Inch
6 in. Cake Circle
8 in. Cake Circle
Decorator Preferred 13 inch Angled Spatula
Wooden Dowel Rods
Plastic ruler
Toothpick
4 Standard Coupler
4 Round Cake Decorating Tip 3
Cake Pedestal

Instructions

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Make layered cakes. Prepare batter following recipe directions. Bake and cool two 6 in. and two 8 in. cake layers. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Level, fill and stack 6 in. and 8 in. layers on cake circles for two 2-layer cakes, 4 in. high.
Ice cakes. Use spatula and white icing to ice cakes smooth. Prepare for stacked construction.
Decorate cakes. On each cake tier, use ruler and toothpick to mark triangle lines, 3/4 in. high and 1 1/4 in. apart, on bottom and top of cake sides. Use green icing pouch with coupler and tip 3 to pipe dots following triangle pattern. Use pink icing pouch with coupler and tip 3 to pipe dots inside the green triangle. Use green icing pouch to pipe dots under pink triangle. Use orange icing pouch with coupler and tip 3 to pipe dots on the outside of the main green triangle.

Use yellow icing pouch with coupler and tip 3 to pipe dots in a horizontal pattern around the triangle pattern and one dot in between the small orange triangle. Use pink icing pouch with coupler and tip 3 to pipe dots in horizontal pattern above and below yellow dots.
Assemble tiered cake. Stack cakes on cake pedestal. Use orange icing pouch with coupler and tip 3 to write message.

Notes

How To

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.
Print Writing
Add that special touch to your cake with your special someone's name.