Tickled Teal Buttercream Cake

Whether you're having a big birthday party, a retirement party or you just want to make a cake for girl's night, this Tickled Teal Buttercream Cake is a great treat to make for a large crowd. Featuring bright teal icing and a fun assortment of colorful sprinkles, this buttercream cake is great for beginners and easy to personalize to suit a wedding shower, baby shower or birthday party. Add candles or a cake topper to suit your occasion, or make your own sprinkles mix with whatever you have at home!

Skill LevelBeginner

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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. Combine Teal and Kelly Green icing colors to get teal color shown. Tint 5 cups icing teal using color combinations provided.
Place cake on cake circle, then on turntable. Using spatula, ice cake with teal icing, using tip of spatula to add spatula marks to side of cake. For consistent lines, place tip of spatula at base of cake, then turn cake on table as spatula moves up towards top of cake.
Use same technique to pipe swirl on top of cake, starting at edge of cake and working towards center. Place cake on gold cake board.
Decorate cake. In small bowl, combine sprinkles. Carefully top edge of cake with sprinkles mix.