Poinsettia Cake How-To

You will need:

• Red and White Royal Icing Poinsettias
• Two color disposable pastry bag
• Red food coloring
• Red Lightbulb Cake Stand Wrapper - discontinued
• Favorite two-layer cake recipe
• Frosting of your choice

Instructions:

1. Bake and cool cake as directed. Frost with initial base-layer of frosting.
2. Divide frosting into two bowls. Dye one bowl with red food coloring.
3. Place frosting into two-color pastry bag.
4. Ice ripple pattern up and down sides of cake moving from bottom to top, layering frosting as you go. Frosting will come out of the bag and will give a red and white appearance as seen in the photo.
5. Ice the top of the cake in a similar style.
6. Place royal icing poinsettias on top of the cake, staggering each shape for a "blooming" effect.
7. Prepare the cake plate by affixing double stick table around the edge of the plate.
8. Put together (with tabs) enough pieces of the Cake Stand Wrapper to go around the entire cake plate.
9. Stick the wrapper to the sides of the cake plate.