Colorful Bunny Watercolor Cake

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

Download the Bunny Pattern

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Bake cake. Prepare the cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool three cake layers. Level, fill and stack for a 6 in. high cake. Frost smooth using white buttercream.
Make bunny pattern. Using a FoodWriter edible marker, trace the bunny pattern on parchment paper. Cut out the bunny and lightly press into the side of the cake.
Tint icing.
- Using Pink and Lemon Yellow icing colors, tint 1/4 cup frosting each pink and yellow
- Using Teal icing color, tint 1 cup frosting teal
- Tint 1/4 cup frosting purple by combining Violet and Pink icing colors to get purple color shown
Ice cake. Using an offset spatula, swipe pink, teal, yellow and purple frosting around the sides and on top of the cake, taking care to overlap the stencil edges.
Smooth frosting, letting colors blend slightly. Reserve the remaining teal frosting and remove the stencil from the cake.
Decorate cake. Prepare a decorating bag with tip 4B and the remaining teal frosting. Pipe pull-out stars around the top edge of cake.

Notes

This decorating idea makes a 3 layer 6" high cake

How To

How to Pipe a Pull-Out Star
The star tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The pull-out star technique can be used for fun, furry creatures, or for textured hair for your cakes.
How to Prepare a Decorating Bag
Decorating with a bag and tip is one of the most fundamental skills in cake and dessert decorating. Here are some basics to get you started.