Wilton Thanksgiving Turkey Cake
Do you wanna impress your guests this Holiday or Thanksgiving? Then just follow these easy steps for a Thanksgiving Turkey Cake! All you need is a Wilton Turkey Cake Pan, A 2 Layer Cake Recipe, Butter Cream Icing, Food Coloring, Some Piping Bags and Tips.
You
can use whatever cake recipe you want for this. Also you can be
creative and use whatever colors and tips you want to icing this cake.
First
we started out with a two layered yellow mix box cake, normally we make
our cakes from scratch but we wanted to try something different. Also,
using a box cake can save you some time.
Follow
the cake instructions on the box. We used Pam Baking Spray to coat our
pan, if you don't have that than oil or butter the pan and coat with
flour. After baking, let cake cool 10 minutes on a wire wrack.
After
10 minutes flip the cake out onto a cake board and let cool for an hour
or more. You can even bake the cake a day before icing it.
We used Vanilla Butter cream Icing and Chocolate Butter cream Icing to decorate the cake.
Step One: We started with outlining the turkey feathers and body with chocolate butter cream icing with a Wilton tip number 3. We used cocoa powder to get the brown color since we didn't have brown food coloring but you can use brown or black food coloring for the outline. The outline does not have to be perfect!
Step One: We started with outlining the turkey feathers and body with chocolate butter cream icing with a Wilton tip number 3. We used cocoa powder to get the brown color since we didn't have brown food coloring but you can use brown or black food coloring for the outline. The outline does not have to be perfect!
Step Two:
Then we used a Wilton tip number 17 and brown icing to fill in the
Turkey's head and body. For the Eye we used white butter cream icing and
a Pearl sprinkle.
Step Three: After filling in the body and head we used Wilton Tip 13 and
white butter cream icing to fill the tips of the feathers and Wilton
tip 17 for the chest. We did the part that would be the side of his
wings brown and his chest white.
Side Step: After
icing one layer for his side wings, we thought it looked a bit plain so
we went over them again and made connecting half circles to look like
wing feathers and then we lined the inside of the wings with white to
really make them pop out.
Step Four: We used red and a little white butter cream icing to do his gobbler and five bottom feathers with Wilton tip number 17.
Step Five: We two toned the icing with Orange and Red butter cream icing. We used a tip number 17 for the outer layer of feathers and than a Tip number ? for the inter layer of feathers. For the bottom feathers we added white icing to the red and orange icing to make it a 3 tone look.
Note: You don't have to do two-toned colors, you can do the colors separate if you prefer.
Step Six: Around the edge of the cake we did a rose border going around
the cake with a Large Wilton Star Tip. You don't have to do that you can
just icing the cake around the edge.
Last Step: Serve and Enjoy!!
