Floral Drip Cake
Steps involved
Make cake layers
Make cream cheese icing
Make buttercream (no color)
Divide buttercream into four, with one larger amount for the main icing color, and color yellow icing
Assemble and ice cake
Color remaining icing
Pipe design
READ BEFORE CONTINUING: The following recipes are scaled to make the cake pictured above -- a 4 layer cake made with 6-inch round cake layers. If you wish to make a smaller cake, please scale down these recipes.
recipes used
1 - 1.5 batches Italian meringue buttercream
I made this buttercream vanilla flavored by adding 1 tablespoon of vanilla to my 1.5x batch (can add less or more to taste)
I always like to have extra buttercream rather than not enough, so if you're not sure how much to use, I would recommend 1.5
Cream cheese icing (recipe below)
Cream Cheese Icing
Ingredients:
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
2 tbsp. butter, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
1-2 tsp. vanilla extract
milk, if needed to thin icing
Mix butter and cream cheese together
Add vanilla, mix
Slowly add powdered sugar and mix until all incorporated
If icing is too stiff you can add a splash of milk until it's the consistency you like
Colors used
To get these colors, I used Wilton's Color Right Food Coloring System.*
For the cake layers:
Pink layers:
Pink: 2 drops
Blue layers:
Blue: 2 drops
For the icing:
The colors may differ depending on how much icing you're coloring and the starting color of your buttercream (certain butter brands are more white or yellow which can make the buttercream whiter or more yellow). These are the amounts I used and should get you close.
Main Yellow Icing:
Yellow: 17 drops
Light Blue Icing:
Black: 1 drop
Blue: 25 drops
Dark Blue Icing:
Blue: 80 drops
Crimson: 15 drops
Pink: 2 drops
Green Icing: I used the leftover yellow icing and added these colors:
Blue: 40 drops
Yellow: 25 drops
Supplies/tools
To find the tools I use for almost every cake I make and decorate (including pans, cake boards, icing smoothers, etc.), click here.
The supplies/tools below are specifically for decorating this cake, which I used in addition to the ones in the link above.*
*Some of these links may be affiliate. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I earn a small amount from some purchases, however, this does not affect my recommendations.
Decorating the cake
After the cake has been assembled and iced:
Take 6 piping bags and put the following tips into them:
Wilton 224
Wilton 2D
Wilton 1M
Ateco 32
Ateco 21
Ateco 26(You can use any combination of colors and tips but I...) Put the dark blue icing into the bags with the Wilton 1M tip and Ateco 21 tip.
Put the light blue icing into the bags with the Wilton 2D tip and Wilton 224 tip.
Put the green icing into the bags with the Ateco 32 and Ateco 26 tip.
Using the larger tips pipe a boarder across the top of the cake.
Alternating between tips, pipe designs from the boarder working your way down the cake. (I've added a little video HERE showing the tips in action)
Slice and enjoy :)
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