Lovely Lilies and Lace Cake

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Before starting, please read a helpful hint from the Wilton decorator who made this cake.

In advance: Make flowers in royal icing.

Pipe 23 lilies using tips 366 and 14 and medium blue royal icing. Insert glitter stamens from assortment. Let dry completely.
Bake and cool two-layer cake. Position on foil-wrapped cake board . Ice cake smooth in pale blue buttercream icing.
Using cake dividing set, mark 16 divisions. Pipe lines down side of cake at markings with tip 3 and medium blue buttercream icing.
In every other stripe, pipe drop strings 3/4 in. apart and 3/4 in. deep with tip 3 and medium blue buttercream icing.
In remaining stripes, pipe cornelli lace with tip 2 and white buttercream icing.
Pipe bead border with tip 4: Use white buttercream icing below cornelli lace; blue buttercream icing below drop strings.
Pipe a mound of buttercream icing on top center of cake with tip 2A; attach lilies.