It’s time to awe your family and friends when they see this wonderful Santa Claus cake you created in a matter of minutes (when you had all the ingredients created a head of time.)
How To Make A Santa Cake
The Ingredients: Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Vanilla and the following colors: red. green, “flesh”, black piping gel. Iced cake in the flavor of your choice – I am using my improved vanilla sponge cake.
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- Various different colored buttercream icings needed.
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- Iced vanilla sponge cake.
Using the flesh colored buttercream, ice a section of the top which will represent the skin around the eyes and nose. Using red buttercream ice the area above the flesh colored portion to represent the hat, Using white buttercream, pipe rosettes to represent the hat furry border.
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- Spread some “flesh” tone icing for around the eyes.
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- Ice the hat red above the forehead area.
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- Pipe a row of rosettes between the flesh color and the red hat.
Continue piping white rosettes along the cake edge from one side of the red hat to the other, Fill in the beard with rosettes.
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- Pipe rosettes for the beard and exposed hair.
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- Fill in the beard with rosettes.
Pipe the mustache by making 2 reverse scrolls.
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- Add the mustache.
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- The mustache! Just 2 big scrolls.
Use black piping gel for the eyes. Pipe a red mouth under the mustache. Pipe 3 green holly leaves
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- Use black colored piping gel for the eyes,
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- Pipe the red mouth below the mustache.
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- Add 3 leaves for a piece of holly on the hat.
Use red buttercream to pipe the holly berries. Use red buttercream to pipe a reverse shell border on the top edge. With the white buttercream, pipe a reverse shell base border,
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- Add the red holly berries.
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- Pipe a reverse shell border for the hat.
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- Pipe a reverse shell border around the base of the cake.
Use green buttercream to make offset dots around the cake. Pipe a flesh colored nose above the mustache.
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- Give the sides some color by piping green offset dots.
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- Add a flesh colored nose.
Wow, stand back and look in awe at the creation you created!
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- Santa Clause Cake
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- Santa Clause Cake
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Santa Cake Recipe
- 1 recipe Vanilla Sponge Cake
- 2 recipes Swiss Meringue Buttercream
- Red Food Coloring
- Green Food Coloring
- "Flesh" Food Coloring
- Black Food Coloring
- Piping Gel
- Prepare the vanilla sponge cake. Cool and ice it.
- Prepare the Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
- Separate out some for the various colors - red, green and flesh.
- Make some black colored piping gel.
- Have some parchment paper conesavailable
- Using the flesh colored buttercream, ice a section of the top which will represent the skin around the eyes and nose.
- Using red buttercream ice the area above the flesh colored portion to represent the hat,
- Using white buttercream, pipe rosettes to represent the hat furry border.
- Continue piping white rosettes along the cake edge from one side of the red hat to the other, Fill in the beard with rosettes
- Pipe the mustache by making 2 reverse scrolls.
- Use black piping gel for the eyes.
- Pipe a red mouth under the mustache.
- Pipe 3 green holly leaves
- Use red buttercream to pipe the holly berries.
- Use red buttercream to pipe a reverse shell border on the top edge.
- With the white buttercream, pipe a reverse shell base border,
- Use green buttercream to make offset dots around the cake.
- Pipe a flesh colored nose above the mustache.
- Wow, stand back and look in awe at the creation you created!
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