Holiday Stripes Christmas Cake

Instructions

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1. - Bake cake. Prepare cake mix according to recipe instructions. Bake three 6-inch cake layers. Trim, fill and stack for 6 in. high cake. Ice smooth in white icing.
2. - Create grooves. Use squared notch icing comb to comb sides of cake.
3. - Tint icing. Tint 1/2 cup icing each light teal, light pink and dark pink using color combinations provided. Combine Teal with a touch of Kelly Green for light teal shown. Combine Christmas Red with a touch of Red-Red for light pink shown. Combine Christmas Red, Red-Red and a touch of Lemon Yellow for dark pink shown. Using Teal icing color, tint 1/2 cup icing dark teal. Reserve remaining icing white.
4. - Prepare piping bags. Place in disposable decorating bags. Cut 3/4 in. off tips of bags for a 1/4 in. opening. Pipe alternating colors in the grooves of the icing. Smooth cake sides with icing smoother.
5. - Decorate cake. Use tweezers to attach Sprinkles and Sugar Pearls along the white areas of the cake.
6. - Pipe top swirls. Place white icing in disposable bag with tip 1M. Pipe swirls around top border. Add jimmies sprinkles to swirls.