Beginner
Cross Cake
Create a stunning floral cross cake with a lovely embroidered look for an Easter to remember. Use muted nature-inspired colors or choose your own colors to create a custom look. It’s a beautiful centerpiece that’s also great for baptisms, christenings and baby showers.
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AmountCake serves 16.
Ingredients
Favorite cake mix or recipe
Creamy White Decorator Icing – 4 lb. Tub
Green Leaf Icing Color
Juniper Leaf Icing Color
Ivory Icing Color
Kelly Green Icing Color
Black Icing Color
Royal Blue Icing Color
Rose Icing Color
Red-Red Icing Color
Christmas Red Color
Violet Icing Color
Lemon Yellow Icing Color
Tools
Cross Cake Pan
Cooling Grid
Round Tip 1
Round Tip 2
Round Tip 3
Standard Coupler
Disposable Decorating Bags
9 in. Angled Spatula
Instructions
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- Bake Pan.Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool. Level to top of cake pan.
Tint icing.Combine Leaf Green with a touch of Juniper Green to get mossy green color shown. Combine Leaf Green and Ivory to get pale green color shown. Combine Kelly Green and Juniper to get blue green color shown. Combine Kelly Green, Royal Blue and a touch of Black to get rich blue color shown. Combine Rose and Red-Red to get deep pink color shown. Combine a very small amount of Royal Blue and Violet to get pale blue color shown.
Tint ½ cup icing each mossy green, pale green, blue green, rich blue, deep pink and pale blue using color combinations provided.
Using a touch of Christmas Red icing color, tint ½ cup icing light pink. Using a touch of Lemon Yellow icing color, tint ½ cup icing pale yellow.
Reserve remaining icing white.
Prepare bags. Prepare 9 decorating bags with couplers. Fill each bag with a different color and the 9th bag with white icing.
Using remaining white icing, ice cake smooth.
Decorate Cake.Using prepared bags and alternating between tips, pipe flowers and leaves to cover cake.
For pink roses, attach tip 3 to pale pink bag. Outline and fill in circle, smoothing with spatula. Attach tip 1 to bright pink bag. Pipe petal lines. Attach tip 1 to pale green bag. Pipe a cluster of dots for center.
For other flowers, pipe and smooth petaled flowers, and pipe bead flowers. Pipe details with tip 1 and another color of icing.
Pipe stems and leaves in various colors with tip 1 and 2. Smooth leaves with spatula.
Attach tip 2 to white bag. Pipe dots randomly around cake.
Notes
How To
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.
How to Pipe Beads
The bead shape makes impressive borders outlines and accents on letters and designs; also a cute trim on clothing and gingerbread houses. The basis for making piped hearts and figure piping.
How to Pipe an Outline
Characters or designs are often outlined first, then piped in with stars or zigzags. Outlines can also be used for facial features.
