Merry Mint Rosette Cake

Celebrate any mini occasion, from a work milestone to a happy un-birthday celebration, with this Merry Mint Rosette Cake. A great decorating project for beginners, this small cake features piped rosettes and swipes of mint icing, making it the perfect spring or summertime treat. You can see this cake and many more in the How to Pipe Simple Icing Flowers kit, filled with lots of tutorials, inspiration and even a few must-have tools to make your treats blossom.

Skill LevelBeginner

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Lemon Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.
Lemon Yellow Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz. $2.52
Kelly Green Icing Color, 1 oz.
White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb.

Tools
Performance Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 6-Inch
Aluminum Bakeware Round Cake Pan 6x2 Inch $14.29
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula
Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count
Extra Large Drop Flower Tip 1G
Decorator Preferred 13 inch Angled Spatula
Large Drop Flower Tip 2C

Instructions

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Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Level, fill and stack for 4 in. high cake.
Tint icing. Tint 1½ cups icing mint green using color combination provided. Combine Kelly Green and a touch of Lemon Yellow icing colors to get mint green color shown.
Decorate cake. Spatula ice cake smooth using white icing. Using 9 in. angled spatula, apply ribbon of mint green icing around bottom of cake, about 1 in. high. Using 13 in. spatula, swipe cake smooth, slightly blending mint green and white icing.
Prepare two decorating bags separately with tips 1G and 2C. Fill both bags with remaining mint green icing.
Pipe large 1G rosette on top edge of cake. Pipe two 2C rosettes on either side of large rosette, reducing size and pressure.

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.