Happiest Birthday Cake

Don't let the spectacular blend of colors and shapes of this three-layer cake fool you. It's easy to make! Decorating tools, icing and icing colors inspire you to bake the happiest birthday cake ever!

Skill LevelBeginner

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb. Tub
Icing Colors, 12-Count

Tools
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Non-Stick Cooling Rack,14.5 x 20-Inch $20.67
Icing Spatula, 13-Inch, Angled Cake Spatula
Performance Pans Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 8-Inch
Round Cake Decorating Tip 5
Cupcake Decorating Icing Tips, 12-Piece Set
Round Cake Decorating Tip 12
Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 21
Standard Coupler
Mixing Bowls

Instructions

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Bake cake. Prepare cake recipe following directions. Bake 3 layers. Cool. Trim each layer to 1 ½ in. high for a 4 ¼ in. high cake. Fill layers and crumb coat with white icing.
Tint icing and prepare decorating bags. Divide icing into five 1 cup portions, and 2 cups for Medium Pink icing. Tint light violet, medium violet, dark violet, light pink, medium pink and dark pink. Combine Violet with a touch of Pink for dark violet shown. Combine Pink with a touch of Violet for medium and light violet shades shown (2 shades.) Combine Pink with a touch of Burgundy for light, medium and dark pink shades shown (3 shades.) Place light violet icing in a decorating bag with a coupler, medium violet icing in a decorating bag with tip 21, dark violet icing in a decorating bag with tip 2D, light pink icing in a decorating bag with tip 1A, medium pink icing in a decorating bag with tip 4B, dark pink icing in a decorating bag with tip 1M.
Decorate cake. Use prepared bags and all icings to pipe random dots, clusters of dots, stars, pullout stars, swirls and rosettes to cover top and sides of cake.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe A Rosette
Learn how to pipe beautiful rosettes, big and small, to add charming floral accents. Rosettes are a great way to create quick decorations. Different tips create different petal effects. Rosettes can be used to add a simple floral accent to a dessert, or cover a cake and cupcakes.
How to Pipe Dots
Perfect for classic borders or cloudlike decorations, dots are a versatile technique that can be piped in a range of sizes. The dot technique can be used as a simple border for cakes and cookies, as well as for icing cupcakes or piping meringues.
How to Pipe a Pull-Out Star
The star tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The pull-out star technique can be used for fun, furry creatures, or for textured hair for your cakes.
How to Pipe a Swirl
Combine outlines and curls into icing swirls to add an impressive look with minimal effort. Swirls are the perfect technique to cover large areas such as gingerbread house roofs and cake tops.