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2. Ice the cake with thinned gray icing, and use a spatula to create the feathers. With tip No. 8, pipe the white claws, tummy, ears and “cheeks” of the owl, smoothing with a spatula. Paint the irises of the eyes with a small brush and yellow food colorin

2. Ice the cake with thinned gray icing, and use a spatula to create the feathers. With tip No. 8, pipe the white claws, tummy, ears and “cheeks” of the owl, smoothing with a spatula. Paint the irises of the eyes with a small brush and yellow food coloring. Trim the tip off a sugar ice cream cone for the owl’s beak, and coat with yellow and orange icing. You also may create the beak with icing. Pipe claws using tip No. 8 and a bag striped with yellow and orange icing. Use a cut paper tube to add black details.

1. For a wise Halloween owl, you need one 6-in. round and one 9-in. round. Place the 9-in. round below the 6-in. layer. Cut wedges from the left, right and bottom of the larger round. Simply shift the two wedges on the sides out a bit for the wings. Flip2. Ice the cake with thinned gray icing, and use a spatula to create the feathers. With tip No. 8, pipe the white claws, tummy, ears and “cheeks” of the owl, smoothing with a spatula. Paint the irises of the eyes with a small brush and yellow food colorin1. For a pumpkin shaped cake, trim the tops of two bundt cakes to fit together. Sandwich the cakes with icing. Fill the holes with the cake trimmings.2. Use No. 127 tip or any large rose tip to thickly ice the cake with orange icing. Smooth the icing with a spatula. Then, add the pumpkin’s grooves by smoothing the icing again with a piece of cardboard that is cut into an extended “w.”3. Place a small piece of cake on top of the pumpkin for the stem.
4. Add a brown border around the base of the pumpkin with star tip No. 16. Then, use the same tip to ice the pumpkin stem. Smooth the icing on top of the stem with a spatula. “Cut” the top of the pumpkin with a cut paper tube.5. With tip No. 8, pipe a yellow jack-o’-lantern face. Then, use a cut paper tube to accent the facial features with brown icing. Add a sugar leaf to the stem.6. Pipe an appropriate message using a cut paper tube, and accent the cake board with sugar leaves.1. For a black Halloween cat, use a single 8-in. round. Cut a 4 in. circle out of the cake, and cut a wedge out of the smaller circle. Place the 4-in. circle (with cut side towards the top) to the upper left of the 8-in. circle to create the head. Place t2. Thin black icing to make it easier to spread. (You may use chocolate icing tinted black if you want to use less coloring.) Ice the cat with the thinned icing, ruffling the “fur” with a spatula. Use tip No. 8 to pipe the eyes. For the nose, you can use
For a trick or treat sack, stack and fill three 6-in. rounds, and lightly ice. Roll out a circle of rolled fondant, and place the cake layers in the center. Fold the fondant up along the edges of the cake using the icing to adhere the fondant to the cake.To create mini pumpkins, which are great for single serve desserts, stack two small bundt cakes, or other snack-type cake, with the tops together. Use icing to adhere the two cakes. Pour warmed icing fondant over the stacked cakes to coat. You can use ora
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