SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Favorite cake mix or recipe
- Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4lb Tub
- Cornstarch
- Golden Yellow Icing Color
- Orange Icing Color
- Pink Icing Color
- Violet Icing Color
- Royal Blue Icing Color
- Kelly Green Icing Color
- Pastel jellybeans
- Pearlized Jimmies
- 6-Cell Easter Sprinkles
- 6"x 2" round pan
- Cooling grid
- Cake leveler
- 6" cake boards
- 13" angled spatula
- 18-Piece Easter cookie cutter set (jellybean cutter used)
- Disposable decorating bags
- Round Decorating Tip 5
- Standard Couplers (6 needed)
- Star Decorating Tip 16 (6 needed)
- Round Decorating Tip 3 (6 needed)
- Star Decorating Tip 1M
- Tweezers
DIRECTIONS:
- Bake cakes. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool four cake layers. Trim each layer to approximately 1 1/2" high.
- Fill and stack layers on cake board for 7" high cake.
- Ice cake smooth in white icing.
- Outline jellybean shapes. Place cake on upside down cake pan to raise cake above table. Dip jellybean cutter in corn starch. Mark jellybeans on cake, wiping cutter free from icing and re-dipping in cornstarch as needed._x000B_Place cake on serving platter before decorating._x000B_Add jellybeans randomly around side of cake.
- Outline jellybeans. Prepare decorating bag with tip 5 and white icing. Pipe elongated bead in each outlined jellybean to form highlight.
- Tint icing. Using Golden Yellow, Orange, Pink, Violet, Royal Blue and Kelly Green icing colors, tint 1/4 cup icing each yellow, orange, pink, violet, blue and green.
- Prepare six decorating bags separately with couplers and tinted icings. Prepare all bags with tip 16.
- Decorate cake. Using star fill-in technique, fill in jellybeans with yellow, orange, pink, violet, blue and green icing.
- Switch all bags to tip 3. Fill in white spaces on sides of cake with dots, dashes, lines and waves.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 1M and white icing. Pipe swirls around top edge of cake. Top each swirl with a jellybean; sprinkle with jimmies and Easter sprinkles (tweezers can be used to place sprinkles and jellybeans on cake).