Breath of Spring Floral Cake

Soft and feminine, this Breathe of Spring Floral Cake is a wonderful way to celebrate a baby shower, wedding shower or mom's birthday. After you're done icing your cake, simply use a toothpick to make stems for your flowers, then use a variety of tips to pipe leaves and petals. Add a personalized message to the top or customize your cake with a banner or a fun buttercream border. No matter what the occasion, this buttercream cake is sure to impress!

Skill LevelIntermediate

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool three cake layers. Level, fill and stack layers for 6 in. high cake.
Tint icing. Using Ivory icing color, tint 4 cups icing ivory. Ice cake smooth.
Tint 1/2 cup white icing each green, violet, blue and grey using color combinations provided.
*Combine Moss Green and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get green color shown. Combine Violet and Rose icing colors to get violet color shown. Combine Royal Blue, Violet and Black icing colors to get blue color shown. Combine Black, Red-Red, Royal Blue and Brown icing colors to get grey color shown.
Using Creamy Peach icing color, tint 1/2 cup white icing peach. Using Pink icing color, tint 1/2 cup white icing pink.
Decorate cake. Prepare six decorating bags with couplers. Fill separately with green, violet, blue, grey, peach and pink icing.
Use toothpicks dipped in Moss Green icing color to draw stems on cake. Start from bottom of the cake and move upwards, using a new toothpick every time you need more color.
Using various tips and prepared icings in bags, pipe flowers, leaves, dots, calyx and petals on cake.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe a Fern
The airy look of the Fern provides the touch of greenery a cake top bouquet needs. For each frond, pipe a series of leaves which get gradually smaller as you approach the top.
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.
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.
Sweet Peas
Here is one of the fastest, easiest-to-make flowers in the garden. Try piping them in variegrated shades.
How to Make Petal Tip Flowers
Whether creating small or large blossoms, petal tips are essential for creating lifelike flowers with great dimension.