Special Occasion Cakes Recipes - Mother's Day Bouquet

Ingredients

• 675g butter icing

• 2x 18cm round sponge cakes

• green, blue, yellow and pink food coloring

• serrated scraper

• No 3 writing and petal nozzles

• 5 greaseproof paper piping bags

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Method:

1. Reserve one-third of the butter icing for decorating. Sandwich together the two sponges with butter icing and place on a serving plate. Cover the top and side with the rest of the butter icing, smoothing the top with a palette knife and seriating the side using a scraper.

2. Divide the remaining butter icing into four bowls. Tint them green, blue, yellow and pink.

3. Decorate the top of the cake first. Use No 3 writing nozzles for the blue and green icing and petal nozzles for the yellow and pink. Pipe on the vase and flowers.

4. For the side decoration, spoon the remaining yellow icing into a fresh piping bag fitted with a No 3 writing nozzle. Pipe the stems, then the flowers and flower centers. Finish by piping green beads at the top and base edges of the cake.