Dad's Toolbox Sculpted Cake

Use your odd-size scraps—1/3 sheet leftovers are perfect—to create this three-layer rectangular design.
With the addition of Silver Shimmer Airbrush Color accents and Tools Assortment Dec-Ons® decorations, Dad might not realize this one’s completely edible!

1. Airbrush & Colors (or canned spray color) ..Mix red icing with Lucks Red Liquid Airbrush Color in a white icing base, yellow icing with Egg Shade Liquid Airbrush Color, blue icing with Blue Liquid Airbrush Color and grey and black icings using Lucks Coal Black Liqua-Gel Color.

2. Assemble the three layers of cake and ice the cake in red icing.

Icing in a tube:
3. With black icing in a #3 Plain Round Tube, pipe a parting “lid” line along the upper half of the cake as shown.

4. With grey icing in a #5 Plain Round Tube, pipe clasps along the parting line, and two small square bases for the top handle.

5. Spray clasps and handle bases carefully with Lucks Silver Shimmer Airbrush Color.

Decorating Tips
6. With a #8 Plain Round Tube (Item #12756) and black icing, pipe the handle.

7. With a #8 tip and red icing, pipe a bottom border.

8. With a #5 tip and blue icing, pipe the word "DAD” on the bottom half of the toolbox.

9. With a #3 tip and yellow icing, overpipe the word “DAD” and pipe “#1” directly above the word “DAD.”

10. Finish with Tool Assortment Dec-Ons® decorations (Item #38572).

Decorating idea by Charra Jarosz