Cake Decorating Ideas

Thanksgiving Day is a day to said thank you for all the good and bad thing that happen in our lives, it is a day to share what we have with families and friends and give to other less fortunate as much as we can. You can share this Thanksgiving Turkey Cake with others, this cake can be the center on your table on Thanksgiving Day; to do this cake I used a snowmen and shell cake pan. It is a fun cake to do, and it’s not difficult to make and decorate it. The shell will be split into two parts and in the middle will be the snowmen, then will be decorated with Buttercream icing in different colors to make it look like a turkey.

• You will need:

Snowman Cake Pan

Shell Cake Pan

Decorating Tips
(1A, 2, 2B, 4, 5, 12, 18, 19, 352)

Decorating Bags

Decorating Couplers

Decorating Spatulas

Decorating Icing Colors
(Orange, Christmas Red, Leaf Green, Golden Yellow,Royal Blue, Black)

Cake Boards

Buttercream icing

Instructions:

1. Bake the cakes.
2. Cut the shell cake in half lengthwise.
3. Position the pieces of cake alongside the snowman cake on the board; the snowman will be lithely on top of the shell pieces.
4. Get one decorating bag, put inside the bag, the coupler base, get the tip #2B, and slip it  into the coupler base and twist the coupler ring over the tip, locking it in place.
5. Get some buttercream icing and add brown color, need to be a lite color.
6. Add that mix inside the bag and start decorating the shell with that color; smooth the icing with a decorating spatula.
7. Get some of the icing in separate bowls  and add individually the color red, yellow and orange.
8. Prepare a bag with a red color, get the decorating tip #18, pipe scalloped outlines of the shell cake. Repeat the same step with the other two color, to make three lines of scallop outline the cake.
9. With orange icing, ice pumpkin area and smooth.
10. With black icing and tip #2B, pipe band on the hat.
11. Using tip #4 string outline around collar and eyes.
12. Pipe-in with white icing using tip #5 the eyes.
13. With tip #4, and black icing pipe eyeballs.
14. Fill-in the collar with white icing using tip#18 stars.
15. With blue icing, and tip #19 stars, fill-in the hat.
16. Using dark brown icing and tip #19 stars  fill-in the head, over pipe eyebrow area and add pull-out stars at forehead.
17. Pipe with tip #12 and yellow icing hat buckle.
18. With tip #4 and black icing pipe eyebrows and string bow.
19. Pipe lines on pumpkin using tip #2 with orange icing.
20. Using tip # 1A with green icing, pipe using heavy pressure, an elongated ball of icing for steam.
21. With green icing and tip #2 pipe vines; change the tip for tip #352 and pipe leaves.
22. Add  beak  with yellow icing and tip #12, with  heavy pressure pipe a ball shape for bottom beak, tapering off the end as you gradually  decrease the pressure.
23. Tuck tip on top and pipe a ball shape, tapering off the end decreasing the pressure.
24. Using red icing with tip #12, using light pressure, pipe a line of icing alongside beak for wattle.
25. With dark brown icing and tip #352 pull-out wing feathers.

And you are done with your Turkey Cake.  Enjoy!