Time to scratch another project off of my list. Here she is!
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| I removed my frozen cake from the freezer and let it defrost. Set it atop a foil covered lazy suzan with parchment paper pieces tucked under it. |
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| The Dora Accessory |
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| The ingredients for Buttercream Icing as specified in my Wilton Basics book. |
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| I went with half butter and half crisco instead of all shortening. It ended up somewhat soft this way. |
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| Creamed it in my mixer. |
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| Used an old damp dishtowel to keep the icing sugar from flying all over the kitchen. |
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| Looks great! But I forgot to divide it in two, and mistakenly dyed it all purple so my Fiesta Dress cake was monochromatic. There were supposed to be orange ruffles also. |
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| Beginning to apply the icing. |
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| Love the Wilton Icing applicator! |
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| It was 11pm so I decided on an easier version and made these upward pleats instead of filling the entire skirt with piped ruffles. |
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| Bottom ruffles complete. I added silver balls to make up for my lack of orange icing. |
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| Certainly not perfect but you can see that my piping along the bottom WAS flat before I pulled my paper pieces back out. |
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| Hola Amigos! Top ruffles complete. |
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| Stained my hand too. |
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| Special cake for my sweethearts second birthday! |
