Independence Day Surprise Cake

Step 5: Decorate

Now that the cake is set up and hardened it is time to decorate and make it look pretty.  I used a star tip (wilton #18) to decorate using a stippling technique by individually pipping each dot of icing.  Set aside a small amount of the frosting to color both red and blue.  A little less than half of the frosting will need to be white, about a quarter cup blue, and the majority you will need to color red.  

Using a star shaped cookie cutter and different sized bowls (or anything circular) trace out a pattern to follow for decorating your cake.  Then have at it! Notice how I saved red for last so that I could just use all remaining frosting when mixing in the food gel colors. 

***Make sure to have enough frosting (making more is better) before you mix in the colors so that you don't run out and have mix and match a new tint of frosting.