Prettiest Petit Four Tree

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Wilton® foodcrafting supplies:
• 9x 13" Cake pan
• 10x 13" Cooling grid
• Disposable decorating bags
• Red and green tube icing (use included round tip)
• Kelly green icing color
• Lightbulb sprinkles
• 6-Cell sprinkles
• Candy cane icing decorations

You will also need:

• Favorite poundcake recipe or mix
• Quick-pour fondant icing recipe ,(2 recipes needed)
• Confectioners' sugar
• Knife
• Large plate or serving tray

DIRECTIONS:

1. Bake cake. Follow recipe directions to bake and cool pound cake. Trim to 1 1/4" high, then trim to 1 1/4" squares.
2. Prepare icing. Make 2 recipes quick-pour fondant icing, keeping temperature below 100 degrees and adding 1 cup of confectioners' sugar per recipe. Divide icing and tint 1/4 cup brown, reserve 1/2 cup white, tint remainder green. Keep icing warm between pours.
3. Ice cakes. Position cakes on cooling grid over pan to catch drips. Place cakes on cooling grid. Place icings in decorating bag and trim 3/8" off tip of bag. Work one color at a time and add sprinkles and icing decorations as you go. You will need 33 total: 4 white, 1 brown and 28 green.
4. Decorate cakes. Use tube icings with included round tips to pipe red and green ribbons and bows on cakes to look like packages.
5. Arrange cakes. Place green and brown cakes in the shape of a Christmas tree on serving tray. Arrange white cakes around base.