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.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Meringue Powder
Royal Icing
Lemon Yellow Icing Color
Soft Yellow Sugar
Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Buttercream Frosting
Leaf Green Icing Color

Tools
1.5 Inch Flower Nail No7
Pre-cut Icing Flower Making Squares
Petal Cake Decorating Tip 104
#102 Petal Piping Tip
Round Cake Decorating Tip 5
Wave Flower Former Set
Disposable Decorating Bags
6 x 3 in. Round Pan
Cake Board
Fanci-Foil Wrap
Spatula
Plastic ruler
Toothpick
Round Cake Decorating Tip 3
Leaf Cake Decorating Tip 352
Large Leaf Cake Decorating Tip 366

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

Notes

How To

How to Pipe a Shell Border
The shell is one of the most versatile icing decorations. Use it to pipe a simple border or pipe rows of shells to accent or cover a cake. Try piping shells in multiple colors and in combination with other decorations like dots or zigzags to create your own unique designs!
How to Pipe Icing Leaves
Make a simple, versatile leaf to add realistic details to flowers. Leaf tips can also be used to make simple flowers, such as sunflowers.
How to Pipe a Daisy
Try some fun color combinations: yellow petals with yellow or blue centers, violet or blue petals with yellow centers and peach petals with orange centers. Highlight centers with Wilton Cake Sparkles, or colored sugars.