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1. To begin the tiered design, cover a 4-in. round with lime green fondant, a 6-in. round with white fondant and an 8-in. round with bright pink fondant. Stack the tiers on a round cake board finished with a blue ribbon.

1. To begin the tiered design, cover a 4-in. round with lime green fondant, a 6-in. round with white fondant and an 8-in. round with bright pink fondant. Stack the tiers on a round cake board finished with a blue ribbon.

1. To begin the tiered design, cover a 4-in. round with lime green fondant, a 6-in. round with white fondant and an 8-in. round with bright pink fondant. Stack the tiers on a round cake board finished with a blue ribbon.2. Create a ribbon topper by airbrushing ribbon tails pink, blue, green and yellow. Use a variegated color technique while airbrushing–from light to dark colors–to save time by not rinsing the airbrush between colors. Gather the ribbon tails with attached3. Use dowels to anchor the cake to the cake board. Create a hole in the center of the top tier and insert the bow tail ribbon.4. Use a small round tip to pipe a border of white icing at the base of each tier. Cover the border with colorful candy dots, available from suppliers. Use a ball tool to create indentations in the side of the middle tier. With tweezers, dip the candy dot5. On the top and bottom tiers, place sugar decorations matching the theme, such as clown heads, pinwheels and clown hats. Cover the bottom of the cake board with candy dots.1. Use one of the sugar clown decorations as a guide for the sculpted clown cake. For the clown’s head, use a cake or brownie pop. You also can shape crispy rice treats into a sphere. Cover with white fondant. For the hat, trim the base of a sugar ice cre
2. Cover the cone with pink fondant. Cut a strip of sheeted blue fondant and wrap around the cone. Make a ball out of pink fondant for the top of the hat. After placing it at the top of the cone, use tweezers to pull the fondant out into tassels. Create a3. Place the hat on top of the clown’s head. Position balls of orange fondant around the base of the hat to create puffs of hair. Use the end of a dowel to create circles for the clown’s curly hair.4. Use a ball tool to mark indentations for the clown’s eyes, nose and mouth. Place small balls of blue fondant for the eyes, and shape an oval nose out of pink fondant. Create the mouth by placing a thin rope of pink fondant on the clown’s head. The more5. Cut strips of blue fondant. One side should be straight and the other side should be wavy. Gather the straight side loosely to create a ruffle. You will need two strips to complete the clown’s collar. Allow the fondant to dry slightly.6. For the clown’s body, stack two 4-in. tiers and cut the tiers into a rough egg shape. You can cover the cake with buttercream icing or fondant. If you use icing, smooth it by placing a paper towel over the icing and brushing it with a paintbrush. Inser7. Create the oversized clown shoes out of green fondant. Attach pink balls of fondant to each toe of the shoe. Use tweezers to pull tassels out of the pink fondant.
8. Place three candy dots in the center of the clown’s chest for buttons. Airbrush the bottom half of the clown’s body yellow and the top half green.9. Cut another strip of blue fondant–straight on one side and wavy on the other. Fold it into a loose ruffle, and place around the middle of the clown’s body. Roll a rope of pink fondant and place on top of the blue ruffle. Shape sleeves out of orange fon10. Place the blue collar under the clown’s head. Shape gloves out of white fondant and place inside the orange sleeves.11. Cover the cake board with candy dots. Sweet Ashley’s will sell the add-on clown cake for $20. It also makes a good addition to a sheet cake.
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