Prairie Birthday Cake

Name: Prairie Birthday Cake
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters butter, softened; 2 liters confectioners sugar; 12 servings Pink, yellow, green and purple or blue paste food coloring; 6 Tbsps milk; 237 milliliters shortening; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 package white cake mix (regular size)

Prairie Birthday Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains around 2g of protein, 34g of fat, and a total of 765 calories. It is perfect for Birthday. A mixture of butter, confectioners' sugar, shortening, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 55 minutes.

Instructions

Prepare and bake cake according to package directions, using a greased and floured 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes; invert onto the rack to cool completely.

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Transfer cake to a 15-in. x 12-in. covered board.

In a bowl, cream shortening, butter and vanilla. Gradually beat in sugar and milk until light and fluffy.

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Shortening

Vanilla

Butter

Cream

Sugar

Milk

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Bowl

Place 1 cup frosting in a bowl; tint pink.

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Frosting

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Bowl

Place 1/2 cup frosting each in two bowls; tint one yellow and one purple or blue.

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Frosting

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Bowl

Place 1/4 cup frosting in another bowl; tint green. Cover and set bowls aside. Set 1/2 cup white frosting aside. Frost cake with remaining white frosting.

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Frosting

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Bowl

With a knife, score a straight line lengthwise down the center of the cake; score two lines widthwise, creating six sections.

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Knife

Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert star tip. Fill bag with reserved white frosting. Pipe rows of white shells over the scored lines

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Frosting

Pasta Shells

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Ziploc Bags

Prepare another bag; insert star tip and fill with pink frosting. Pipe shells on each side of the rows of white shells, being careful not to cross over the lines. Pipe a row of pink shells around top and bottom edges of the cake.

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Frosting

Pasta Shells

Trace a sunbonnet pattern onto waxed paper and cut out. With a sharp knife, trace pattern in top left, bottom middle and to right squares.

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Knife

Prepare another bag; insert round tip and fill with pink frosting. Outline and fill in the bonnet and form a bow in the top left square. In the center of each of the empty squares, pipe two pink flowers.

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Frosting

Prepare another bag; insert round tip and fill with purple or blue frosting. Outline and fill in the bonnet in the middle bottom square and form a bow. Pipe two purple or blue flowers in the squares with the pink flowers.

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Frosting

Place a small dot of purple or blue frosting in the center of pink flowers.

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Frosting

Prepare another bag; insert round tip and fill with yellow frosting. Outline and fill in the bottom in the top right square and form a bow. Pipe two yellow flowers in squares with the other flowers, forming a bouquet.

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Frosting

Place a small dot of the yellow frosting in the center of purple or blue flowers.

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Frosting

Prepare another bag; insert round tip and fill with green frosting. Pipe stems and leaves on bouquets.

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Frosting

Place a small dot of green frosting in the center of yellow flowers.

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Frosting