Party Petit Fours
Bake your favorite cake in a greased and floured jelly roll pan, 15½×10½×1″, at 350° about 25 minutes. Cool in pan. Spread thinly with Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting, saving 1½ cups for Decorator Icing ([p. 9]). Cut small shapes. Trim with flowers, scallops, ribbons or bows to suit your fancy!
A cake’s party dress is its Frosting
Frosting makes a cake an occasion!
Sugarplum Tree
1 For centerpiece shape cardboard cone 15″ tall by 10″ in diameter at base, or for a dessert, bake cake in tiered pans, shaving sides for tree shape.
2 Frost with stiffly beaten Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting, saving 1 cup for Decorator Icing ([p. 9]).
3 Divide icing into 3 parts; tint in Christmas colors. Use #28 star tip for canes, #68 leaf tip in overlapping fashion for wreaths, and #96 flower tip for stars.
4 To shape decorations by hand: Add enough sifted confectioners’ sugar for easy handling. Use your own ideas.
Easter Bonnet Cake
1 Use 2 pkg Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting Mix, saving 3 cups for Decorator Icing ([p. 9]). Tint pale yellow; frost 9″ layers on 12″ base. Frost base to resemble hat brim. Make “straw” design by pressing fork into frosting.
2 Tint 1 cup icing mauve with red and blue food coloring. Make ribbon using #104 petal tip. Frost double strip of foil for streamer.
3 Tint 1 cup icing pink. Make sweet peas ([p. 11]). Make rosettes using #96 flower tip and ½ cup white icing.
4 Tint rest of icing green. Add leaves with #68 leaf tip.
Clown Cake
1 Make cake in 8″ layers, saving ¼ cup batter to pour in prepared 3″ custard cup. Bake cupcake with cake 15 to 20 min.
2 Use Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting Mix. Save 1½ cups; tint rest light green; frost cake, heaping frosting in mounds on top for ruffle.
3 Frost cupcake white; set in center of cake. Top with frosted cone for hat.
4 Make Decorator Icing ([p. 9]) with rest of frosting. Tint ¼ cup pink. Make hat brim and ruff using #28 star tip. Add white trim with #96 flower tip. Decorate with gumdrops.
Valentine Cake
1 Bake cake in one 8″ sq. pan and one 8″ layer pan. Cut round in half; fit to square for heart shape. Use 2 pkg. Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting Mix to frost cake, saving 1½ cups for Decorator Icing ([p. 9]).
2 Tint 1¼ cups icing pink. Make border using #28 star tip. Use #4 writing tip for message.
3 Make roses ([p. 10]) using rest of pink icing. Arrange roses attractively on cake.
4 Tint ¼ cup icing green. Add leaves using #68 leaf tip and stems using #4 writing tip.
