Intermediate
Shaggy Heart Valentine's Day Cake
Create a fun, texturized treat this Valentine's Day with this Shaggy Heart Cake. Decorated using tip 233 and a variety of icing colors, this fun and colorful cake is a quick and easy project for decorators of all skill levels. You could even make this cake for a wedding shower or anniversary celebration. A simple and fun cake with serious eye-catching power, this Shaggy Heart Valentine's Day Cake is a trendy sweet for any celebration!
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Skill LevelIntermediate
Ingredients
Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb. Tub
Teal Icing Color, 1 oz.
Rose Icing Color, 1 oz. - Pink Food Coloring
Violet Icing Color, 1 oz. Gel Food Coloring
Orange Icing Color, 1 oz.
Christmas Red Icing Color, 1 oz.
Sky Blue Icing Color, 1 oz.
Tools
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Large Folding Cake Leveler, Cake Decorating Supplies
Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count
Decorator Preferred 13 inch Angled Spatula
Heart Shaped Non-Stick Cake Pan, 9 Inch
Multi-Opening Cake Decorating Tip 233
Instructions
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- Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool one cake layer.
- Crumb coat cake. Using Rose icing color, tint 3½ cups icing light pink. Using cake leveler, slice cake in half. Fill and crumb coat with light pink icing. Reserve remaining light pink icing.
- Tint remaining icing. Tint ½ cup icing each dark pink, dark coral and light coral using color combinations provided. Combine Christmas Red and touch of Rose icing colors to get dark pink color shown. Combine Orange and Rose icing colors to get dark and light coral color shown. Using Teal icing color, tint ½ cup icing teal. Using Sky Blue icing color, tint ½ cup icing each dark and light blue. Using Violet icing color, tint ½ cup icing each dark and light purple. Using Rose icing color, tint ½ cup icing medium pink. Reserve remaining icing white.
- Prepare decorating bags. Prepare 11 decorating bags with tip 233. Fill separately with dark pink, dark coral, light coral, teal, dark blue, light blue, dark purple, light purple, medium pink, white and reserved light pink icing.
- Decorate cake. Alternating colors, cover cake with pull-out grass technique.
Notes
How To
How to Pipe Grass & Fur
The grass tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The serrated edges of the grass tip makes ridges in the icing as you squeeze it out. Our step-by-step video shows you how!
