Shannon Sylvestor has been a decorator for 16 years. This Red Hat Society cake is one of the bakery's most popular designs.

Pipe a circle of red icing in the center of the cake. Press three cupcakes together, and place them on the red circle to create the main hat.

Use tip No. 6 to pipe red icing over the cupcakes. Be careful that the crumbs do not get mixed in the icing as you smooth it over the cupcakes.

With tip No.234, pipe tufts of red icing along the bottom edge of the cake. Release the pressure on the bag as you pull up to create this 'boa' effect.

Pipe white vertical lines with tip No. 48. Space them about one to two ins. apart. In between the straight lines, use tip No. 6 to pipe zigzag lines.

Create the top border by piping pink and orange daisies around the top rim of the cake with tip No. 104.

Finish the Lazy Daisy design by adding yellow centers to the daisies with tip No. 6 or 7.

Create a ‘boa’ effect

Decorate with dots, curlicues

Lightly airbrush an 8-in. cake with pink. Use tip No. 2 to pipe curlicues and dots around the side of the cake.	To create the varigated flowers on the top fo the cake, stripe a pastry bag with hot pink gel, and fill it with light pink icing. Align a rose tip No. 104 so the hot pink is on the outside of the petals.	With tip No. 2, pipe black centers in each o fthe five-petaled flowers, and randomly place black polka dots around the rim of the cake.