Blooming Floral Birthday Cake

Making a beautiful birthday cake is easy and fun with this Blooming Floral Birthday Cake. Decorated using a variety of tips, this cake is easy to customize and makes a wonderful treat for the birthday girl! You could also use this cake for a wedding shower or Mother's Day brunch. Mix and match icing colors to create unique effects, or pipe solid-colored flowers for a quick decoration that will bring your cake to life.

Skill LevelIntermediate

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

1 16 oz. package frozen sliced strawberries in syrup
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons cornstarch

Tools
Medium saucepan

Instructions

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Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Level both layers to 1½ in. high.
Tint icing. Tint icing following color combinations provided. Fill and ice cake smooth
BATTER COLORS TINTED:
Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formulas to tint batter in the following shades:
- Dark Green: 1 cup white icing + 3Y + 13B + 1BR
- Light Green: 1 cup white icing + 1B + 1Y + touch of BR
- Purple: 1 cup white icing + 6CR + 10P + 2BK + 3B
- Coral: 1 cup white icing + 5P + 2Y + 1R
- Yellow: 1 cup white icing + 5Y + 1O
- Pink: 1 cup white icing + 1BK + 12R + 36P
- Peach: 1 cup white icing + 2R + 2Y
- Turquoise:1 cup white icing + 1Y + 13B
- Light Purple: 1 cup white icing + 1 teaspoon purple icing
- Light Coral: 1 cup white icing + 1 teaspoon coral icing
- Light Pink: 1 cup white icing + 1 teaspoon pink icing
Prepare decorating bags. Prepare 12 in. decorating bag with tip 366. Using spatula, stripe bag with light and dark green icing.
Prepare 16 in. decorating bag with large rose Easy Blooms tip. Fill with light purple and regular purple icing.
Prepare 16 in. decorating bag with large mum Easy Blooms tip. Fill with coral icing.
Prepare 12 in. decorating bags with desired specialty metal tips. Fill some with solid icing, others with mixed icing.
Decorate cupcakes. Pipe flowers and star drop flowers in crescent shape on half of cake. Fill in with leaves.