SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Black Candy Melts® Candy
- Favorite cake mix or recipe
- Creamy White Decorator Icing - 4lb tub
- Orange Icing Color
- Lemon Yellow Icing Color*
- Golden Yellow Icing Color*
- Confectioners' sugar
- Printable Bat Pattern
- Cake Board
- Parchment Paper
- Disposable Decorating Bags
- 6"x 2" Round Cake
- Cooling Grid
- Icing Comb Set
- Icing Smoother
- 13" Angled Spatula
DIRECTIONS:
- Melt Black Candy Melts® according to package instructions. Prepare decorating bag with melted black candy. Cut 1/4" off tip of bag.
- Place bat template on cake board; cover with parchment paper. Following template, use melted candy to pipe 28 to 30 bats. Tap board lightly on surface to smooth out candy. Chill until set, about 15 minutes.
- Bake cake. Prepare cake mix following recipe instructions. Bake and cool three cake layers.
- Tint icing. Using confectioners' sugar, stiffen 5 cups icing to medium consistency. Using Orange icing color, tint 1/2 cup white icing orange. Tint 1/2 cup icing yellow using color combination provided. Reserve remaining icing white.
- Ice cake. Level, fill and stack layers for 6" high cake. Using white icing, ice cake smooth. Using square cut blade, comb sides of cake.
- Prepare two decorating bags, separately, with orange and yellow icing. Cut 1/2" off tip of each bag.
- Alternating colors, fill in grooves of cake. Using icing smoother, smooth icing.
- Decorate cake. Position and attach bats to sides of cake using remaining white buttercream.
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JANET from
WHERES THE PRINTABLE BAT PATTERN?
I LOOKED ALL OVER YOUR SITE AS DID A JOANN STORE MEMBER, FOR THE PRINTABLE BAT PATTERN. COULDN'T FIND IT! NO CONNECTION LINK EITHER.
Date published: 2020-10-12