Photo Gallery: Retro Designs

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1. For this retro-looking cake, cover a 1/4-sheet cake with yellow icing and smooth with a spatula. With tip No. 5, pipe elongated ﾓcﾔ shapes, one right side up and one upside down, along one edge of the cake.
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2. Make the design more elaborate by adding curlicues radiating off of the stem. End each curlicue in a dot.
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3. Use the same tip to extend the design down the sides of the cake.
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4. With tip No. 45, pipe two straight black bands beside the curlicue design.
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5. Add a thin line of white icing next to the black bands with tip No. 6.
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6. Use a flower-shaped cutter to punch out one small and two large white fondant flowers. Place them on top of the cake.
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7. With the small cutter, punch out two black fondant flowers, and center them over the larger white flowers.
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8. Add a stitch effect to the larger flowers by piping short lines of black icing around the edges of the petals using tip No. 1.
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9. With tip No. 6, pipe large white dots in the center of the two large flowers.
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10. Outline the smaller flower in black icing using tip No. 1. Then, add a black center.
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