If you are looking for an easy way to wow people, baking a cake in a novelty pan and decorating it is a good way to go. Novelty cake pans come in all sorts of shapes like flowers or popular cartoon characters.
A novelty pan usually takes one cake mix and can be decorated using a star tip. You cover the cake all in little stars. It takes a little time to cover the whole cake but the benefits are that making the little stars are easy and the cake will look good regardless of how well the stars are formed.
What you Need:
- Novelty Cake Pan
- 1 Cake Mix
- Cake Board
- Medium Consistency Buttercream Icing
- Food Coloring
- Pastry Bags
- Star Tip (size 16,18, or 21)
Grease and flour the cake pan. Mix up the cake mix based on the instructions on the box, pour into the cake pan, and bake. Let the baked cake cool about 15 minutes in the pan before you remove. Let cake cool completely, design side up, on a cooling rack. Once it is cool, you can transfer it to the cake board. Use the food coloring to color the buttercream icing as you need. Fill your pastry bag with the icing and put the star tip on the bag. Now you are ready to start filling in your cake with the icing.
Tips:
- Make sure you grease and flour your cake pan really well so that it comes out clean.
- When you first make buttercream icing, it will be stiff consistency (if you stick a knife in it, it will not move). Add a few drops of water and mix the icing to get a medium consistency. You will know it is medium consistency when you can stick a knife in it and it moves, but does not fall, when you shake the bowl. If you add too much water, you can add some powdered sugar to make it stiffer.
- Try to place your stars close enough together so you don't have gaps and see the cake underneath.
- Filling in your cake in star rows will help give your cake a better look.
- If you put a dab of icing on your cake broad and then place the cake on top, your cake will not move around on the broad.
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