Easy Fall & Halloween Cake 
With Rice Paper and Candy Corn Decorations
by Diane Shavkin

 

 
Items needed:

Mini muffin tin with piping gel mixed with food colors:  red, orange, yellow and green
Rice/Wafer Paper
One large leaf cookie cutter
One small leaf cookie cutter
AmeriColor Gourmet Writer Food Decorating Pens
Scissors
Candle in candle holder
Matches
Eye brow tweezers

Place  the large leaf cutter on the smooth side of a piece of rice/wafer paper.  Use a brown non-toxic pen and trace around the leaf cutter.  Make several large and small leaves.
Trace one pumpkin.  Do not trace around the stem.  Instead, close in this area to form the rest of the pumpkin with a stem.

Draw a stem of the appropriate size and shape needed.

Draw a leaf that will eventually go near the stem and at the top area of the pumpkin.

Cut out all the items drawn or traced.
Use the brown pen and draw the lines on the leaves and on the stem of the pumpkin.

Use the orange pen and draw the lines on the pumpkin.

With an artist's brush paint the items with appropriate piping gel colors.

To curl the leaves, hold each leaf, by means of a pair of eye brow tweezers, over a lit candle to curl.  Do not hold too close to the flame because the leaf could burn.

Let all items dry at least overnight.

Make a bundt cake.  Ice with chocolate frosting.

Before the frosting dries, arrange the candy corn to make the bottom border by place one piece pointing upward, slightly, and the next piece pointing downward, slightly.  Repeat this until the border is finished.

After the border has been completed, immediately arrange the rice/wafer paper items on the cake.

 


 
 
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