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2105-3317PtyHatWebIS50407.qxd 6/21/05 7:20 AM Page 1 Instructions for To Decorate Rainbow Hat You will need Wilton Icing Colors in Red-Red, Royal Blue, Kelly Green, Baking & Decorating Lemon Yellow; tip 18. Make 3 cups buttercream icing: Party Hat Cakes • Tint 2 cups yellow (thin 1⁄4 cup with 1 teaspoon light corn syrup) • Tint 1⁄4 cup red • Tint 1⁄4 cup green PLEASE READ THROUGH INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE YOU BEGIN. • Tint 1⁄2 cup blue IN ADDITION, to decorate cakes you will need: WITH THINNED YELLOW ICING WITH GREEN ICING • Wilton Decorating Bags and Couplers or • Use spatula to ice front side of cake • Use tip 18 and "To Make Stars" Parchment Triangles smooth directions to pipe 1 in. wide stripes • Decorating tip 18 (alternate designs also use tips WITH BLUE ICING WITH YELLOW ICING 3, 4, 16, 21) • Use tip 18 and "To Make Stars" • Use tip 18 and "To Make Stars" directions to pipe 1 in. wide stripes directions to pipe 1 in. wide stripes • Wilton Icing Colors in Red-Red, Royal Blue, Kelly • Use tip 18 and "To Make Pull-Out Green, Lemon Yellow (alternate designs use WITH RED ICING • Use tip 18 and "To Make Stars" Stars" directions to cover pompom Golden Yellow and Leaf Green) directions to pipe 1 in. wide stripes and hat brim • Cake Board, Fanci-Foil Wrap or serving tray • One 2-layer cake mix or make your favorite layer cake recipe Tip 18 yellow • Buttercream Icing Recipe (included). pull-out stars • Alternate designs use Wilton Vanilla Whipped Icing Mix: Flowerful Medley Sprinkle Decorations; Disposable Decorating Tip 18 Bags; two 6 oz. packages of orange gelatin; non-stick vegetable cooking Tip 18 green stars blue stars spray, large spice drops, candy-coated chocolate dots, scissors. We recommend hand washing pan in hot, soapy water. Tip 18 yellow stars Tip 18 blue stars Wilton Method Cake Decorating Classes Tip 18 Call: 800-942-8881 red stars © 2005 Wilton Industries, Inc. Tip 18 green Woodridge, Il. 60517 stars www.wilton.com Stock No. 2105-3317 Tip 18 yellow stars Tip 18 blue stars To Decorate Rising Stars You will need Wilton Icing Colors in Royal Blue, Lemon Yellow, Golden Yellow, Kelly Green, Red-Red; tips 3, 16, 21. Ice smooth Make 4 1⁄2 cups buttercream icing: with thinned 3 yellow icing Tip 18 yellow • Tint ⁄4 cup light blue (thin with 2 teaspoons light corn syrup) pull-out stars • Tint 1⁄4 cup dark blue • Tint 3⁄4 cup Lemon Yellow/Golden Yellow combination • Tint 1⁄4 cup green • Tint 1⁄4 cup red • Reserve 2 1⁄4 cups white Bake EasyTM Convenient Non-Stick Spray! Tip 21 white For cakes that turn out beautifully rosettes every time, start by spraying pans with Bake Easy. This non-stick spray helps Tip 16 Lemon your cakes release perfectly with Yellow/Golden Yellow fewer crumbs for easier icing and a combination stars flawless decorated cake. Just a light, even coating does the job. Use Bake Ice smooth with Easy for all mixes and recipes— thinned light cupcakes, brownies, breads and blue icing Tip 3 green dots more. Versatile for all types of baking and cooking. 6 oz. 702-6018 Tip 3 red dots Tip 3 dark blue dots Cake Release Tip 21 white For perfect, crumb-free cakes! rosettes No need to grease and flour your baking pan – Cake Release coats in one step. Simply spread Cake Release lightly on pan bottom and sides with a pastry brush and fill with batter. Cakes release perfectly without crumbs every time, giving you the ideal surface for decorating. Now in convenient dispensing bottle. Certified Kosher. 8 oz. 702-6016 2105-3317PtyHatWebIS50407.qxd 6/21/05 7:20 AM Page 2 To Decorate Coolest Cap Baking Instructions You will need Wilton Icing Colors in Leaf Green, Lemon Yellow; tip 4; Preheat oven to 350OF or temperature per recipe directions. Wilton Vanilla Whipped Icing Mix; Flowerful Medley Sprinkle Your cake will unmold easily, without sticking, when you Decorations; Disposable Decorating Bags; two 6 oz. packages of prepare the pan properly. Grease the inside of pan using a orange gelatin; non-stick vegetable cooking spray. pastry brush and solid vegetable shortening (do not use Prepare gelatin following package directions. Prepare pan by lightly butter, margarine or liquid vegetable oil). Spread the spraying with vegetable cooking spray. Pour gelatin mixture into shortening so that all indentations are covered. Sprinkle prepared pan; chill and unmold following package directions. Place on about 2 Tablespoons flour inside pan and shake so that flour foil-wrapped board. covers all greased surfaces. Turn pan upside down and tap Prepare Whipped Icing Mix following package directions. lightly to remove excess flour. If any shiny spots remain, touch up with more shortening and flour to prevent cake from • Tint 1 1⁄4 cups Leaf Green/Lemon Yellow combination sticking. (You can use vegetable oil pan spray or vegetable • Reserve 1⁄2 cup white oil pan spray with flour, in place of solid shortening and flour, or use Wilton Cake Release, for perfect, crumb-free cakes Tip 4 white whipped or Bake Easy Non-Stick Spray for easy release). icing swirls Ice fluffy with Leaf Make one 2-layer cake mix according to package or recipe Green/Lemon directions. Pour the cake batter into pan, and if necessary, Yellow combination spread the batter around with a spatula to fill all areas of whipped icing the pan evenly. Be careful not to touch sides or bottom of Mold orange gelatin O in pan; unmold onto pan. Bake cake on middle rack of 350 F oven for 30-40 foil-wrapped board minutes or until cake tests done according to recipe directions. Remove cake from oven and cool on cake rack for 10 minutes. While the cake is still in the pan, carefully slice off the raised center portion of the cake. This allows Sprinkle with confetti sprinkles from the cake to sit more level and helps prevent cracking. To remove cake from pan, Flowerful Medley place cooling rack against cake and turn both cake rack and pan over. Lift pan off Sprinkle Decorations carefully. Cool cake at least one hour. Brush loose crumbs off cake. To transfer cake to serving board, hold a cake board against cake and turn both cake and rack over. Lift off rack. Hold another board against bottom of cake and turn cake over. Be sure to hold cake, rack and board close together while turning to prevent cake from cracking. For more Decorating Techniques & Tips Visit our website at www.wilton.com - Learn To Decorate - Basic Decorating Lessons Using Your Decorating Party In Polka Dots Bag and Coupler You will need Wilton Icing Colors in Lemon Yellow, Golden Yellow; large spice drops, candy-coated chocolate dots, scissors. You can make many different designs with just one decorating bagful of icing by using the Wilton Make 2 cups buttercream icing: Featherweight or Disposable Decorating bags and • Tint 3⁄4 cup Lemon Yellow/Golden Yellow combination (thin with 2 teaspoons coupler and changing decorating tips. light corn syrup) Just follow these steps: • Reserve 11⁄4 cups white 1. Screw ring off coupler to expose series of tiny threads 1⁄2 in. above coupler base. 2. Force coupler base as far down into decorating bag as it will go.Then mark where bottom thread of Ice fluffy with white icing coupler shows through bag; remove coupler and trim bag at pencil mark with a pair of scissors. Large spice drops cut in 3. Reposition coupler in bag and push end through half with scissors opening to expose bottom two threads. 4. Position decorating tip over coupler and screw ring Ice smooth with in place to secure. To change tips, unscrew ring, thinned Lemon replace tip and replace ring. Yellow/Golden Yellow combination 5. To fill, cuff open end of bag over your hand and icing insert icing with a spatula. Fill bag no more than half full. Candy-coated 6. To close, unfold cuff and twist top of bag shut. Hold twist between your thumb chocolate dots and forefinger. Note: You can eliminate any air bubbles that may have formed by squeezing bag gently over icing bowl until air is released. Important: Be sure to wash the Featherweight bag in hot soapy water, then rinse and dry after every use. A degreaser can make clean-up easier. Ice fluffy with white icing Using Parchment Bags Parchment bags made from parchment paper triangles give you more versatility and the convenience of one-time use. Follow package directions. To “pipe-in” using a cut parchment bag, cut the point of the bag to desired opening. 2105-3317PtyHatWebIS50407.qxd 6/21/05 7:20 AM Page 3 Decorating With Wilton Icings To Make Stars and Pull-Out Stars Wilton Frosting Mix: You will need 2-3 packages of Creamy White Icing Mix. Use tip 16 or 18. Hold bag straight up and down (see To prepare, follow package directions. Each package makes about 2 cups icing. illustration) with tip 1⁄8 in. above surface. Squeeze until Excellent for tinting any shade required. If you're using another type of icing a star is formed, then stop pressure and pull tip away. mix, you will need three 15.4 oz. packages of the creamy vanilla type that will Your stars will be neatly formed only if you stop ice two 8 in. or 9 in. layers. For each package of icing mix, use four less squeezing before you pull the tip away.To make pull- teaspoons water than package directs.