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1989 Yearbook
 
 A sweet country wreath garnished with cookie geese gave this decade-closing cover a charm all its own. For the wreath, curved stripe grapevines were intertwined atop the round cake, finished with drop flowers, ribbon bow and streamers.

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Enchanted Castle Cake

 

Instructions:
Step 1
For People: Use royal icing and Royal Character Pattern. Pipe faces and costumes with tip 3; arms and hands with tip 2, fingers and facial feature with tip 1. Add tips 3 and 13 hair and plums. Let dry.
Step 2
Attach lollipop sticks to the outside of sugar cones. Cut flags out of fancy Candy Wrappers. Tape onto toothpicks.
Step 3
For Castle: Position square and mini loaf cakes together. Ice top and sides smooth. With toothpick, mark Windows & Doors Pattern on square cake Cover marks with tip 3 strings. Fill in windows with tip 3 zigzags. Cover door with tip 47 ribbed stripes. Trim door with tip 3 outlines and fleur-del-lis.
Step 4
Ice ice cream cone cakes smooth on cake boards cut to fit. With toothpick, mark window pattern and trim. Outline windows and trim on bottom of cone with tip 3 strings. Fill in with tip 3 zigzags. Cover trim with tip 47 smooth stripes.
Step 5
Position ice cream cone cake atop mini loaf cakes. Pipe tip 47 smooth stripe windowsills and bricks around door (alternate lengths as shown) and randomly on walls. Attach mini marshmallows on roof with toothpicks to make parapet. Outline marshmallows with tip 3 strings. Pipe tip 789 smooth stripe bottoms with tip 3 pull-out dots. Add tip 3 string tassels. Print tip 3 messages.
Step 6
For Turrets: With royal icing, pipe tip 3 strings on sugar cones (following cone's diagonal lines). Insert toothpick flags into openings on end of cones. Push cone into cake so that sticks go into mini loaf. Edge base of cones and cake top with tip 2 bead border. Edge castle base with tip 47 shell border.
Step 7
Position people into windows.



Jumpin' For Joy Cake

Instructions:
Step 1
Ice cake top and sides smooth. With toothpick, mark Dancers Pattern. Cover marks with tip 4 strings. Figure pipe tip 1A and 12 dancers over string marks. Add tip 2 hair, facial features and fingers.
Step 2
Print tip 4 message. Pipe tip 16 rope candles with pull-out star flames. Edge top and base with tip 21 rope borders.

Little Red Barn Cake
Old Mac Donald would be proud to be the owner of this Little Red Barn Cake. Use our Stand-Up House Pan to create the little red barn. The sheet cake barnyard is well-stocked with an assortment animals and the silo is stacked to the rooftop with cookies!

Instructions:
Step 1
Ice sheet cake smooth; sides and path brown, grass green. Pat sides and path with nuts. Cut and position dowel rods where barn and silo will go.
Step 2
With royal icing: Figure pipe animals. Cow-tips 2, 3, 4, 12, 81; pigs-tips 2, 8, 12; chickens-tips 2, 3, 6; chicks-tips 1, 2; mice-tips 1, 3, 101S; corn-tips 2, 349; sheep (lying down)- 2, 8, 14, 81.
Step 3
For standing lamb: Push pretzel legs into marshmallow. Add tip 12 head, tip 14 reverse shell wool, tip 81 ears, tip 2 dot eyes.
Step 4
For sign: Ice graham cracker rectangle. When dry, print tip 2 message.
Step 5
For silo: Stack cookies (with icing in between) on a cake circle cut to fit until approximately 6 1/2 in. high. Ice sides smooth and mound icing on top to build up dimension.
Step 6
For barn: Attach a cake board cut to fit to bottom of cake with icing. Ice 3 1/4 in. square door and 1-1/2 in. square window brown.
Step 7
Cover sides of barn and silo with tip 45 smooth stripe "wood" slats. Pipe tip 46 smooth stripe window and door frame and band around silo. Attach graham cracker squares to door with icing. Cover with tip 46 vertical stripes.
Step 8
Overpipe frames and diagonal slats. Upright cake and position silo on grass. Cover roofs with tip 48 rows of ribbed stripes (work bottom rows first). Pipe tip 2B eaves on barn.
Step 9
Edge and pipe random clumps of tip 233 pull-out grass. Add tip 233 pull-out straw. Push sign into cake. Attach animals to barn, silo and grass areas with dots of icing.



Star of Light Cake

Instructions:
Step 1
Ice 2-layer cake smooth. With toothpick, mark Hebrew Star Pattern on cake top, Snowflake Pattern on sides.
Step 2
Outline triangular sections on star with tip 16 stripes. Cover inside marks of star design with tip 14 stripes. Trim background with tip 2 dots. Add tip 18 stars on points and in center. Edge top with tip 6 bead border.
Step 3
Outline snowflakes on sides with tip 2 strings. Trim with tip 2 dots. Edge base with tip 18 star border.