A Budding Romance Cake

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

Basket Handle

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Several days ahead of time, use tip 18 royal icing and basket handle pattern to make basket handle.
With royal icing, make the following flowers: 20 tip 104 dark rose colored roses with tip 12 bases and 20 tip 103 medium rose colored roses, with tip 10 bases.
Using royal icing, make 20 tip 103 wild apple blossoms and 20 tip 103 wild roses with tip 1 dot centers; let both dry on flower formers. Make extras of all flowers to allow for breakage and let dry.
For flowers which will be inserted into cake, pipe tip 7 royal icing spikes at bottom of 10 wild roses, 12 apple blossoms, 12 tip 104 roses and 12 tip 103 roses.
For flowers which will be inserted into basket: On waxed paper, using royal icing, pipe tip 12 cone bases for remaining wild roses and apple blossoms.
Make 1/8 in. hook on one end of florist wire and insert hook into base. Smooth and taper icing on wire using slightly dampened decorator brush. Insert other end of wire into styrofoam block to dry.
Attach flowers to bases with royal icing. Attach leaves to wires with hot glue. Wrap all wires with florist tape.
Using ball pan, make sugar basket ahead of time and let dry.
Cut styrofoam ball in half to fit 1/2 in. below basket top edge. Use cake dividing set to divide basket into 24ths.
Using royal icing, cover basket with tip 16 and 47 smooth-side-up basketweave. Ice styrofoam top in the basket smooth in green.
Pipe tip 18 shell top border. Attach handle to basket and support until dry. Position wired flowers.
Ice two-layer cake smooth. Position three plastic dowel rods in center of cake to support sugar mold basket.
Cover sides with tip 16 and 47 smooth-side-up basketweave.
Pipe tip 18 shell top border and tip 21 rope bottom border.
Insert spiked flowers and leaves on cake. Write tip 2 message. Place basket on top of cake.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe Buttercream Roses
Instantly elevate your dessert with an elegant buttercream rose. Made by layering petals on a flower nail, this blooming buttercream flower is easy to make once you get the hang of it! Use a standard petal tip and stiff buttercream frosting to make a whole garden of roses for your next baking project.
How to Pipe Icing Leaves
Make a simple, versatile leaf to add realistic details to flowers. Leaf tips can also be used to make simple flowers, such as sunflowers.
Sugar Mold Basket
How to Pipe a Basketweave
This technique turns any treat into beautiful baskets. Perfect for Easter, Mother's Day, bridal or any Spring and summertime theme. This technique creates a two-dimensional woven-look design. Use for baskets, fences, or to completely cover the side of a cake.
How to Pipe Apple Blossoms
This 5-petal springtime flower, most commonly seen in white or soft pink, is virtually the same petal shape as the wild rose, but uses a smaller tip creating a petite flower. The dot stamen are typically positioned like the holes in a 5-hole button. Dry them on flower formers for a more natural look.