Fresh as a Daisy Cake

Our favorite fresh-look flower, the daisy forms a fun covering for the sides of this cake. The centers are dusted with yellow sugar to add sparkle, making this cake a sensation at celebrations, indoors and out!

AmountCake serves 12.

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Instructions

Instructions

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Before starting, please read a helpful hint from the Wilton decorator who made this cake.

One day in advance, make white royal icing daisies.

Pipe 11 with each tip 104 and tip 102. Let dry in large flower formers.
Bake and cool 3-layer, 5 in. high cake. Position on a foil-wrapped cake board. Ice smooth with light green buttercream icing.
Measuring around bottom of cake, mark with toothpick every 1 3/4 in. Mark alternating points on cake sides 2 1/2 in., 3 in. and 5 in. high for tops of stems.
Pipe stems on cake sides from top marks to bottom of cake with tip 3 and dark green buttercream icing.
Attach flowers with dots of buttercream icing.
Pipe leaves with tip 352 and dark green buttercream icing
Pipe shell bottom border with tip 366 and dark green buttercream icing