Instructions for To Decorate SpongeBob SquarePants Cake You will need SpongeBob SquarePants Icing Color Kit and Wilton Baking & Decorating Icing Color in Black (if SpongeBob SquarePants Icing Color Kit is not available, you will need Wilton Icing Colors in Lemon Yellow, Royal SpongeBob Blue, No-Taste Red, Brown; tips 3, 16 and 21. We suggest you tint all icings at one time, while the cake cools. Refrigerate icing in SquarePants Cake covered containers until ready to use. Make 5 3/4 cups of buttercream icing: PLEASE READ THROUGH INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE YOU BEGIN. • Tint 3/4 cup yellow IN ADDITION, to decorate cake you will need: • Tint 1/2 cup green (combine yellow with a small amount of blue and • Wilton Decorating Bags and Couplers or Parchment Triangles (instructions a touch of brown; thin 1/4 cup with 3/4 teaspoon corn syrup) included with all bags) • Tint 1/2 cup black • Tips 3, 16 and 21 • Tint 1/2 cup brown/red (small amount) combination • SpongeBob SquarePants Icing Color Kit and • Tint 1/4 cup pink • Tint 1/4 cup red Wilton Icing Color in Black (if SpongeBob • Tint 1/4 cup blue SquarePants Icing Color Kit is not available, • Reserve 3 cups white (thin 1 1/4 cups with 1 Tablespoon and 3/4 you will need Wilton Icing Colors in Lemon teaspoon corn syrup) Yellow, Royal Blue, No-Taste Red, Brown • One 2-layer cake mix or ingredients to make Decorate in Numerical Order favorite layer cake recipe 1. Ice cake sides and background areas on top and sides smooth with thinned white • Cake Board, Fanci-Foil Wrap or serving tray icing. • Buttercream Icing (recipe included) 2. Ice sponge holes smooth with thinned green combination icing. Ice mouth smooth • Cornstarch with black icing. 3. Outline sponge area with tip 3 in green combination icing. 4. Outline facial features, arms, shirt, pants, tie, legs and shoes with tip 3 in black icing. Wilton Method Cake Decorating Classes 5. Cover head, arms and legs with tip 16 stars in yellow icing (build up nose, lips, Call: 800-942-8881 cheek and fingers with more stars) 6. Cover shirt and socks with tip 16 stars in white icing. 7. Cover pants with tip 16 stars in brown/red combination icing. Wilton Industries, Inc. 8. Pipe-in eyes and teeth using tip 3 and white icing. Woodridge, Il. 60517 9. Pipe-in irises using tip 3 and blue icing (smooth with finger dipped in www.wilton.com Stock No. 2105-5130 cornstarch). Add Tip 3 outline sock stripes in blue icing. 10. Pipe-in pupils using tip 3 and black icing (smooth with finger dipped in ©2002 Viacom International Inc. All rights reserved. Nickelodeon, SpongeBob cornstarch). SquarePants and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. 11. Cover shoes with tip 16 stars in black icing. Created by Stephen Hillenburg 12. Pipe tip 3 outline eyelashes and belt in black icing. 13. Pipe-in tip 3 tongue in pink icing (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch); indent center of tongue with spatula. Add tip 3 outline chin in pink icing. 14. Pipe-in tie with tip 3 in red icing (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Add tip 3 outline cheek and sock stripes and dot freckles in red icing. 15. Pipe tip 21 star bottom border in white icing. 10. 12. 3. 9. 14. 8. 13. 2. Cake Release 5. For perfect, crumb-free cakes! No need to grease and flour your baking pan – Cake Release coats in one step. Simply spread Cake 15. 4. Release lightly on pan bottom and sides with a pastry brush and fill with batter. Cakes release perfectly without crumbs every time, giving 7. you the ideal surface for decorating. 12. Now in convenient dispensing bottle. Certified Kosher. 8 oz. 702-6016 1. 11. 9. 6. 14. 15. Baking Instructions Using Parchment Bags Preheat oven to 350OF or temperature per recipe Parchment bags made from parchment paper triangles give you more versatility directions. Your cake will unmold easily, without and the convenience of one-time use. Follow package directions. To “pipe-in” sticking, when you prepare the pan properly. Grease using a cut parchment bag, cut the point of the bag to desired opening. the inside of pan using a pastry brush and solid vegetable shortening (do not use butter, margarine or liquid vegetable oil). Spread the shortening so that all Decorating With Wilton Icings indentations are covered. Sprinkle about 2 Wilton Frosting Mix: You will need 2-3 packages of Creamy White Icing Mix. Tablespoons flour inside pan and shake so that flour To prepare, follow package directions. Each package makes about 2 cups icing. covers all greased surfaces. Turn pan upside down Excellent for tinting any shade required. If you're using another type of frosting and tap lightly to remove excess flour. If any shiny mix, you will need three 15.4 oz. packages of the creamy vanilla type that will spots remain, touch up with more shortening and flour frost two 8 in. or 9 in. layers. For each package of frosting mix, use four less to prevent cake from sticking. (You can use vegetable teaspoons water than package directs. Each package makes about 1 3/4 cups oil pan spray or vegetable oil pan spray with flour, in icing. Do not refrigerate icing before decorating. Cake may be refrigerated after place of solid shortening and flour, or use Wilton it is iced. Cake Release, for perfect, crumb-free cakes or Bake Wilton Ready-to-Use Decorator Icing: You will need approximately 2-3 cans Easy Non-Stick Spray for easy release). of our delicious white icing. Each 16.5 oz. can holds about 2 cups. It's ideal for Make one 2-layer cake mix according to package or all of your decorating needs – frosting, decorating and flower making. recipe directions. Pour the cake batter into pan, and if necessary, spread the batter around with a spatula Making Buttercream Icing to fill all areas of the pan evenly. Be careful not to The thick, but creamy texture of this flavorful icing makes it ideal for touch sides or bottom of pan. Bake cake on middle decorating*. For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use. It rack of 350OF oven for 30-40 minutes or until cake can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks. Rewhip before tests done according to recipe directions. using. YIELD: 3 CUPS. Remove cake from oven and cool on cake rack for 10 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening minutes. While the cake is still in the pan, carefully 1/2 cup butter or margarine slice off the raised center portion of the cake. This 4 cups (1 lb.) sifted confectioners’ sugar allows the cake to sit more level and helps prevent cracking. To remove cake from 2 tablespoons milk pan, place cooling rack against cake and turn both cake rack and pan over. Lift 1 tsp. Wilton Clear Vanilla Extract pan off carefully. Cool cake at least one hour. Brush loose crumbs off cake. Cream butter and shortening with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add To transfer cake to serving board, hold a cake board against cake and turn both sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and cake and rack over. Lift off rack. Hold another board against bottom of cake and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. turn cake over. Be sure to hold cake, rack and board close together while turning Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. to prevent cake from cracking. *To thin for icing cake, add a small amount of light corn syrup. Coloring Your Icing For more Decorating Techniques & Tips Wilton Icing Colors are best for decorating because they are concentrated and Visit our website at www.wilton.com - give the deepest, most vivid icing colors. Use a toothpick to swirl icing color into Learn To Decorate - Basic Decorating Lessons. icing, then mix well. Add color gradually until you get the icing color you desire. Using Your Decorating Bag and Coupler Icing Smooth With A Spatula You can make many different designs with just With a spatula, place icing on cake. Spread icing over one decorating bagful of icing by using the area to be covered. For a smooth effect, run spatula Wilton Featherweight or Disposable Decorating lightly over the icing in the same direction, blending it bags and coupler and changing decorating tips. in for an even look. For a fluffy effect, swirl icing into Just follow these steps: peaks using the edge of the spatula. 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 Let's Practice Decorating bottom thread of coupler shows through Use decorating bag and coupler as directed in this booklet. bag; remove coupler and trim bag at pencil Practice each of the following techniques on the back of a mark with a pair of scissors. cookie sheet with white icing. The practice decorations can 3. Reposition coupler in bag and push end be scraped off the cookie sheet back into the mixing bowl through opening to expose bottom two and rewhipped for use again. To hold bag while threads. decorating, curl fingers around bag with the end twist 4. Position decorating tip over coupler and locked between your thumb and index finger.