Watercolor Cake

by Wilton |

Item # 09016721P19
Intermediate 3-5 Hours

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

  • Favorite cake mix or recipe (12 cups batter needed)
  • Black Food Writer Edible Marker
  • Creamy White Decorator Icing - 4lb Tub (6 1/4 cups icing needed)
  • Pink Icing Color*
  • Teal Icing Color
  • Lemon Yellow Icing Color
  • Violet Icing Color*
  • 8"x 2" round cake pan
  • Cooling grid
  • Icing smoother
  • Printable Bunny Pattern
  • Parchment paper
  • Scissors
  • 9" angled spatula
  • Disposable decorating bags
  • Star decorating tip 4B

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool three cake layers. Level, fill and stack for 6" high cake. Ice smooth using creamy white icing. Make bunny pattern. Using FoodWriter marker, trace bunny pattern on parchment paper. Cut out parchment paper bunny. Lightly press bunny into side of cake. Tint icing. Using Pink and Lemon Yellow icing colors, tint 1/4 cup icing each pink and yellow. Using Teal icing color, tint 1 cup icing teal. Tint 1/4 cup icing purple using color combinations provided. Ice cake. Using spatula, swipe pink, teal, yellow and purple icing around sides and on top of cake, taking care to overlap stencil edges. Smooth icing, letting colors blend slightly. Reserve remaining teal icing. Remove stencil. Decorate cake. Prepare decorating bag with tip 4B and remaining teal icing. Pipe pull-out stars around top edge of cake.

JOANN Hacks:

  • *Combine Violet and Pink icing colors to get purple color shown.

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