Fun's A Shore Thing Cake

Your personal stretch of tropical beach is shaded with a candy shell umbrella and adorned with vibrant royal icing flowers. Watch our online video.

Ingredients:

• 2 pkgs Yellow Candy Melts®
• Orange Icing Color
• Violet Icing Color
• Lemon Yellow Icing Color
• Rose Icing Color
• Leaf Green Icing Color
• Royal Blue Icing Color
• Meringue Powder
• Piping Gel
• Buttercream icing
• Royal Icing
• candy stick
• granulated brown sugar

Makes:

Cake serves 28.

Tools:

• 10 x 2 in. Round Pan
• Sports Ball Pan Set
• Tip: 1B or Tip: 2D
• Tip: 5
• Tip: 326
• Cake Board
• 12 in. Cake Circle
• Fanci-Foil Wrap
• Metal Spatula
• Beach Sandals 6- Piece Candle Set
• Waxed paper

Instructions:

step 1

*Brand confectionery coating.

At least 1 day before decorating cake, on waxed paper covered cake board, make royal icing drop flowers using tip 1B or 2D in orange, violet, rose and yellow (approximately 32 flowers are used in this project - make additional in case of breakage); add tip 3 yellow dot flower centers. Allow to dry completely.

step 2

Melt yellow candy following package instructions. Fill one sports ball pan half with melted candy. Place in refrigerator until a 1/4 in. thick shell has formed, about 10 to 15 minutes.

Pour out excess candy; smooth top edges with a spatula and refrigerate an additional 15 to 20 minutes. Carefully unmold the shell.

If you have difficulty, place in freezer 2 to 3 minutes, then unmold. Allow candy shell come to room temperature.

step 3

With dots of royal icing, divide outer edge of shell into 24 sections. Pipe multi-colored tip 5 royal icing lines from marked edge to the top center shell. Add a tip 5 ball at top center. Let dry.

Attach candy stick "pole" to bottom of shell with melted candy Let set.

step 4

step 5

Bake your favorite 2-layer cake recipe or mix in round pan. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely. Arrange cake on foil-wrapped cake board.

step 6

Spatula ice cake top smooth in white buttercream; ice sides smooth with yellow buttercream. Pipe buttercream icing tip 326 leaf bottom border; position flowers on leaves.

Tint piping gel blue; spread on portion of cake top for "water". Cover the rest of cake top with brown sugar "sand". Position umbrella and sandal candles.

UMBRELLA

Make the enchanting umbrella several days in advance to allow sufficient drying time on the Ball Pan. You may use a Fondant/Gum Paste mixture or Gum Paste alone.

Ingredients:

• Ready-To-Use Gum Paste
• Leaf Green Icing Color
• Meringue Powder
• White Candy Melts®
• Royal Icing
• cornstarch

Tools:

• Tip: 2
• Sports Ball Pan Set
• Cake Dividing Set
• Round Cut-Outs™ (large used)
• 8 in. Cookie Treat Sticks
• Roll & Cut Mat
• Wide Glide™ Rolling Pin
• Disposable Decorating Bags
• Brush Set
• Knife

Instructions:

step 1

To make umbrella, tint 8 oz. of gum paste light green. Roll out fondant 1/8 in. thick and cut a 6 in. circle with knife, using a cake circle as pattern. Generously dust the outside of one ball pan half with cornstarch and position circle on top. While still on pan, using Cake Dividing Set, divide circle into 10ths. Using large round Cut-Out, cut a scallop between each division, approximately 3/8 in. deep. Let dry on pan for 3 days.

step 2

Pipe tip 2 rib lines in royal icing from top center of umbrella down to each scallop point. Roll a small gum paste ball for button and attach with damp brush.

step 3

Remove from pan. Attach cookie treat stick or wooden dowel for handle with melted candy; let set. Let dry overnight.