Colorfully Simple Cake

Instructions

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1. -

   Ingredients:

   • Favorite cake mix or recipe (12 cups batter needed)
   • Buttercream Icing Recipe (6½ cups icing needed)
   • Color Right Performance Color System

   Colors Tinted:

   Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formulas to tint icing in the following shades:

   • Teal: ½ cup white icing + 1Y + 4B
   • Orange: ½ cup white icing + 1R + 7Y + 7O
   • Pink: ½ cup white icing + 1O + 4P
   • Blue: ½ cup white icing + 2P + 4R + 12B

   Reserve remaining icing white.

2. - Bake cakes. Bake and cool three 2 in. cake layers for 6 in. high cake.
3. - Prepare icing. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Reserve two cups icing for later step. With remaining 4½ cups icing, level, fill, stack and ice cake on cake circle.
4. -

   Mark pattern on cake.

   Bottom Scallops: Prepare cake marker with two pins, placed at the 1½ in. and 2½ in. positions. Using additional cake circles, raise cake so bottom pin is ½ in. from bottom of cake. Press pins into icing. Move marker 1¼ in. to right; mark again. Repeat around entire cake. Remove one pin. Position remaining pin at 2 in.; make marks between previous markings. Repeat around entire cake.

   Middle Lines: Remove additional cake boards; place cake on level surface. Prepare cake marker with three pins, placed at the 1¾ in., 2½ in. and 3¼ in. positions. Mark lines in icing, moving marker horizontally and turning cake as needed. Remove one pin. Position remaining pins to 4 in. and 4¾ in. positions. Repeat; marking lines in icing.

   Top Scallops: For top scallops, place pins at 4¾ in. and 5¾ in. positions. Repeat same process at bottom, lining marker up vertically with bottom markings. Remove one pin. Position remaining pin at 5¼ in.; continue making marks between previous markings. Repeat around entire cake.

5. - Tint icing. Tint icing following formulas provided. Prepare four decorating bags with tip 3 and tinted icing. Place cake on turntable.
6. -

   Decorate cake. Pipe horizontal lines, starting at top and working down (teal, blue, pink, blue, teal).

   For bottom scallops, position tip directly under teal line. Using markings, pipe ½ in. deep scallop, alternating colors. For second and third rows, stagger scallops between scallops of previous row. Repeat for top, creating inverted scallops in alternating colors.

   Makes 20 servings.

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