Fresh Floral Cake

Fresh Floral Cake

Fondant is tinted in six hot fashion colors, then shaped into tufts to create a swash of brilliant texture across your cake! Use the Wilton Color Right™ Performance Color System to tint the bright fondant shades using the QuickCount drop-by-drop formulas below.
  • AmountCake serves 12.

Instructions

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  1. FONDANT COLORS TINTED:

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

    Peachy Pink (formula 510): 3 oz. fondant + 1 BR + 1 C

    Pink (formula 243): 3 oz. fondant + 1 BK + 4 P

    Watermelon (formula 7423): 3 oz. fondant + 4 BK + 14 R + 7 P

    Light Teal (formula 629): 3 oz. fondant + 1 BR + 2B

    Teal (formula 7472): 3 oz. fondant + 1 BK + 5 B + 2 Y

    Green (formula 7494): 3 oz. fondant + 2 BR + 2 B + 4 Y

  2. Step 1 Make layered cake. Bake and cool three 6 in. cake layers.
  3. Prepare icing. Level, fill and stack 6 in. layers on cake circle for a 3-layer cake, 6 in. high. Use spatula and icing to ice cake smooth.
  4. Make fondant tufts. Tint 24 oz. each of white fondant following color formulas above. Use fondant roller with pink guide rings to roll out colors, separately, 1/16 in. thick. Use straight side of round cut-out "C" to cut six shapes in each color. Fold fondant circles in half and then in quarters. Pinch bottom of fondant to make each tuft.
  5. Attach tufts. Use white decorator icing and a cut disposable decorating bag to attach tufts to cake in a diagonal line, alternating colors and tapering at top and bottom edges of cake.

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