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What kid doesn’t love bright colors? Surprise your little one with this “striped” cake in fun colours, a bubbly dotted border and sprinkles galore. Nothing says “party” like a cutely decorated cake!
What You Need
- Baked and cooled cake of your choice (I made a 7 inch round vanilla cake using a cake box mix)
- Offset spatulta or butter knife
- 2 piping bags fitted with an open circle tip
- Bench scraper or an edging tool
- 4 cups of buttercream or 2 cans of frosting
- Gel coloring in fuchsia pink and leaf gree
How-To
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Step One
Divide the buttercream in half. Set half of it aside; with the other half, divide into two bowls. Using the gel food colouring, mix one bowl green and the other pink.
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Step Two
Start with a simple frosted cake, iced in vanilla buttercream. Fill your two piping bags fitted with the open circle tips with pink and green frosting – now, pipe little blobs of buttercream in a line up your cake, alternating colours.
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Step Three
Using your offset spatula or butter knife, spread out the blobs along the cake, creating smears.
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Step Four
Using your bench scraper, press the scraper directly against the cake, scraping the buttercream colours together and pulling the scraper along the exterior of the cake, creating a “striped” pattern! Pull it across the entire sides of the cake. Apply more dots of buttercream halfway through and repeat process.
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Step Five
Create a streaky striped colour on the top of the cake by piping alternating coloured dots and using the bench scraper to pull the colour inward toward the center of the cake.
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Step Six
Using the remaining green and pink buttercream, alternate dots along the bottom of the cake and the edge of the cake to create a bright fun border! Dust liberally with rainbow sprinkles and you’re all set!
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Dig in, everybody! It’s party time! See you again soon with more cakey fun.