SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Favorite cake mix or recipe (7 1/2 cups batter needed)
- Creamy White Decorator Icing - 4lb Tub (5 cups icing needed)
- 12ct Icing Colors Set (Kelly Green, Lemon Yellow, Teal & No-Taste Red colors used)
- 6"x 2" round cake pan
- Cooling grid
- Cake leveler
- 6" cake circle
- 13" angled spatula
- Disposable decorating bags
- Round decorating tip 2A (4 needed)
- Cake marker
- Cake turntable
- Icing smoother
- Tall birthday candles (optional)
DIRECTIONS:
- Bake cake. Prepare cake mix following recipe instructions. Bake and cool three cake layers. Level, fill and stack for 6" high cake. Crumb coat cake. Set aside. Tint icing. Tint 3/4 cup white icing teal and ¾ cup green using color combinations provided. Using Lemon Yellow icing color, tint ¾ cup icing yellow. Tint 2 cups icing orange using color combination provided. Decorate cake. Prepare four decorating bags with tip 2A. Fill separately with teal, green, yellow and orange icing. Using cake marker, divide cake into four sections - placing pins at 1 1/2", 3" and 4" marks. Lightly mark cake. Place cake on turntable. Starting at bottom of cake, fill bottom section with teal icing. Repeat, filling next section with green, then yellow, then orange. Fill top of cake with remaining orange icing. Using icing smoother carefully smooth sides of cake. Using spatula, smooth top. Insert candles, if desired.
Craft Hack Tips and Tricks:
- Combine Kelly Green and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get green color shown. Combine Teal and Kelly Green icing colors to get teal color shown. Combine Lemon Yellow and No-Taste Red icing colors to get orange color shown.