Friendly Lion Cake

Use different piping techniques and colored icings to realistically detail a Friendly Lion Pan cake. Further define features and limbs with outlines created with our No. 3 Round Decorating Tip and black icing.

AmountCake serves 12.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Prepare Icing
We suggest that you tint all icings at one time while cake cools. Refrigerate tinted icings in covered containers until ready to use.
Make 5 1/2 cups buttercream icing:
Tint 3/4 cup orange
Tint 2 1/2 cups yellow
Tint 1/4 cup black
Reserve 2 cups white (thin 1 cup with 1 tablespoon light corn syrup)
Decorate in Order
Using thinned white icing, ice cake sides and background areas smooth.
Use tip 3 and black icing to outline body, tail, face, ears, eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose.
Cover body, tail and face with tip 16 yellow stars.
Use tip 3 to pipe in orange nose (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Use tip 3 and orange icing to outline inside ears.
Cover mane and end of tail with tip 16 orange pull-out stars.
Use tip 3 to pipe black dot whiskers on cheeks.
Edge bottom border with tip 21 white shells.
Baking Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F or temperature per recipe directions. Your cake will unmold easily, without sticking, when you prepare the pan properly. Grease the inside of pan using a pastry brush and solid vegetable shortening (do not use butter, margarine or liquid vegetable oil). Spread the shortening so that all indentations are covered. Sprinkle about 2 Tablespoons flour inside pan and shake so that flour covers all greased surfaces.
Turn pan upside down and tap lightly to remove excess flour. If any shiny spots remain, touch up with more shortening and flour to prevent cake from sticking. (You can use vegetable oil pan spray or vegetable oil pan spray with flour, in place of solid shortening and flour or use Wilton Cake Release, for perfect, crumb-free cakes!).
Make one 2-layer cake mix according to package or recipe directions. Pour the cake batter into pan, and if necessary, spread the batter around with a spatula to fill all areas of the pan evenly. Be careful not to touch sides or bottom of pan.
Bake cake on middle rack of 350°F oven for 30-40 minutes or until cake tests done according to recipe directions.
Remove cake from oven and cool on cake rack for 10 minutes. While the cake is still in the pan, carefully slice off the raised center portion of the cake. This allows the cake to sit more level and helps prevent cracking.
To remove cake from pan, place cooling rack against cake and turn both cake rack and pan over. Lift pan off carefully. Cool cake at least one hour. Brush loose crumbs off cake.
To transfer cake to serving board, hold a cake board against cake and turn both cake and rack over. Lift off rack. Hold another board against bottom of cake and turn cake over.
Be sure to hold cake, rack and board close together while turning to prevent cake from cracking.
We recommend hand washing pan in hot, soapy water.