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Cutie Pie Garden Tall Cake

The products used on this cake are:
Cutie Pie Garden Designer Prints™ Decorations (Item #45095)
Cutie Pie Variety Designer Prints™ Decorations (Item #45162)
Cute Butterflies Assortment Dec-Ons® Decorations (Item #45149)
Bumble Bees Dec-Ons® Decorations (Item #45148)
Lady Bugs Dec-Ons® Decorations (Item #45147)
This is a 4-tiered cake, with 10”, 8”, 6” and 5” rounds.
1. Trim the white ends from the Designer Prints™ sheets using a ribbon insertion tool with the pointed blade (Item #43381) or an X-ACTO type razor knife.
2. Return all Designer Prints™ sheets to the re-sealable bag until ready to use.
3. Ice cake, and apply Designer Prints™ sheets as shown. Suggestion: apply the strips as high on the sides of each tier as possible.
4. Mix a pink icing using Pink Airbrush Color (Item# 10165) with a drop or two of Brown Airbrush Color (Item# 10159).
5. Mix a green icing using Green Airbrush Color (Item# 10162) with a generous squirt of Yellow Airbrush Color (Item# 10167). Mix a green also without the yellow.
6. Mix a yellow icing using Egg Shade Airbrush Color (Item# 10160).
7. Mix a blue icing using Blue Airbrush Color (Item# 10158) also with a drop or two of Brown.
8. Use pastry bags with couplers (Item# 12501) to quickly change tubes.
9. Pipe the bottom border first, using a #104 petal tube (Item# 12888), then a #22 star tube (Item# 12771), then a #16 star tube (Item# 43467).
10. Next use white icing and a #3 plain round tube (Item# 12751) around the top of the bottom tier. Then use a #10 plain round tube (Item# 12758) for the bottom of the next tier.
11. Accent with dots of lime green.
12. Use a #124 petal tube (Item# 12796) to band the bottom of the 6” tier and a #3 plain round tube for dots on the band.
13. Variegate a bag with the two green colors, and use a #352 leaf tube (Item# 16365) for the bottom of the 5” tier.
14. Airbrush the top of the cake with Blue Airbrush Color (Item# 10158) with a drop or two of white (Item# 42433) in your color cup.
15. Variegate white and blue icing with a #10 plain round tube and pipe clouds around the top tier.
16. Finish it all with your cute assortment of Butterflies, Bumble Bees and Lady Bugs as shown.
Decorating idea by Kasia Wilk
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