Flowers in a Snap Cake

You don't need a flower nail and a ton of tips to get beautiful buttercream flowers. With this Flowers in a Snap cake, you can create lovely blooming roses with just a squeeze. Prepare your decorating bags with the Easy Blooms flower tip and fill it with some light blue icing. In one simple squeeze, you'll have a lovely rose that looks great on top any cake or cupcake. This Flowers in a Snap cake is a quick and easy dessert for a baby or bridal shower, or add a cute topper for a birthday cake everyone will want to take a picture of and share with their friends.

Skill LevelBeginner

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb. Tub
Violet Icing Color, 1 oz. Gel Food Coloring
Violet Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz. $2.52
Royal Blue Icing Color, 1 oz. - Blue Food Coloring
Royal Blue Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz. $2.52
cornstarch

Tools
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Cake Icing Smoother
Stainless Steel Buttercream Icing Smoother, 9 x 3-Inch $13.74
Black Angled Icing Spatula, 9-Inch
Easy Blooms Tip Set
12-Inch Disposable Cake Decorating and Pastry Bags, 100-Count
Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 6 x 3-Inch

Instructions

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Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Trim both layers to 2½ in. high. Fill and stack layers for 5 in. high cake.
Ice cake smooth.
Tint icing. Tint 1½ cups icing light blue using color combination provided. Combine Royal Blue and Violet icing colors to get light blue color shown.
Use cornstarch to stiffen icing to medium consistency, if needed.
Decorate cake. Prepare decorating bag with small rose tip and light blue icing. Pipe flowers around top edge of cake.