How to Make a Piped Buttercream Cake

* 6" Diameter Cake x 8" High

* Metal Piping Tips

* Betty Crocker Vanilla Frosting x3

* Piping Bags

* Wilton 8 Pack of Food Colours

* Cocktail Sticks

To begin, gather your food colours and vanilla frosting.

Divide the frosting between 5 bowls, using a cocktail stick to add a tiny amount of food colouring to each bowl - pink, lilac, yellow, blue and green.

Now it's time to start decorating your cake! Begin by adding the yellow frosting to a piping bag fitted with a 5-pointed star nozzle.

Top Tip: Aim to decorate just the central band around the cake, leaving 2” at the top and bottom of the cake free from decoration.

Hold the tip at a 90° angle and squeeze gently to touch the cake. Pipe a concentric circle, working outwards until you have piped a rosette. Repeat at intervals around the side of the cake.

Leave a small amount of yellow frosting in the bowl for colouring orange later.

Now grab your pink frosting and fit it with a flower petal tip. Rest the wider end of the tip against the side of the cake and squeeze gently whilst moving the tip in a zig-zag motion – start wide and get progressively narrower towards the end of each ruffle.

Repeat at random around the side of the cake.

Continue decorating by taking the piping bag filled with lilac frosting, and fitting it with a 5-pointed twisted star nozzle.

Pipe small rosettes in the gaps between the other colours.

Next, grab the piping bag containing the blue frosting and fit it with a 8-pointed star nozzle. Squeeze gently and pull away to pipe simple stars.

Continue to fill in any gaps between the colours.

Take your remaining yellow frosting and add a tiny amount of red food colouring to make it orange.

Scoop the orange frosting into a piping bag fitted with the small round writing nozzle. At regular intervals around the top and bottom of the cake, pipe small carrots in a zig-zag fashion.

Then, clean out the writing nozzle and use this to pipe the green frosting in 3 small lines for the carrot tops. Pipe green dots to fill in any gaps around the central band of decoration.