Poinsettia-Decked Mini Cakes

Poinsettias are the flower of the season. Made with Creamy Decorator Icing, then placed on a mini fluted tube cake, they add a festive holiday touch to your sweets table.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Icing Colors Tinted
Use Color Right base colors and QuickCount color formulas to tint icing in the following shade:
- Winter Red: ½ cup white icing + 10R
- Reserve remaining icing white
Tint icing. Prepare a decorating bag with tip 366 and white icing. Prepare a second decorating bag with tip 2 and red icing.
Make poinsettias. Attach waxed paper square to flower nail with dot of icing. Pipe tip 366 white icing leaves for poinsettia flower petals. Pipe tip 2 red icing dots in center of flower. Remove flower on waxed paper from flower nail. Repeat to make 11 more poinsettias. Let flowers air dry overnight.
Bake and cool chocolate cakes.
Decorate cakes. Sprinkle confectioners’ sugar from strainer over cakes. Prepare a decorating bag with tip 18 and white icing; pipe swirl in center of cake.

Carefully remove poinsettia from waxed paper; attach to cake.