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Learn how to make a Katniss wedding dress cake from the movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Ingredients:
• Prepared doll dress cake (or a tapered cake equaling 6 cups batter)
• Prepared 8" round cake
• Red, black, white buttercream
• White royal icing
• Black and white fondant
• Red, orange, yellow hard candies
Additional supplies:
• Katniss Everdeen doll: http://amzn.to/1yo7Kwp
• Feather mold/press: http://amzn.to/1vxKdYz
• Silver heart accents: http://amzn.to/11DYokf
Procedure:
1. Prepare feathers but rolling black fondant thinly on top of the feather press. Remove, and trim feathers. Repeat 20-30 times. Repeat process with white fondant, making 20-30 feathers. Allow to harden on a flower former or tight rolls of a few sheets of paper towel.
2. Make lace detail with royal icing on a piece of parchment paper. ALlow to harden/dry. Wipe clear piping gel on top of the lace when dry and sprinkle on silver heart accents.
3. Preheat oven to 325F. Remove wrappers from hard candies and melt all three colours together in the oven for 8-10 minutes, or until completely melted. Set aside and allow to cool.
4. Bake and allow cakes to cool completely.
5. Stack cakes on a cake board, attaching the 8" cake to the board with a small swipe of buttercream, and then another layer of buttercream on top to attach the doll dress portion.
6. Clean and wrap doll in plastic wrap, and press down into the centre of the cake.
7. Fill piping bag fitted with 104 tip with black buttercream. Pipe ribbons of buttercream along the bottom of the cake, two to three times around the base of the cake, working up the cake. The black section should take up 1/3 of the dress.
8. Place feather accents into the buttercream along the bottom at varying heights.
9. Spread, or pipe enough red buttercream to attach the candy flames above the black feathers. Try to use lots of different shapes and shades of colours.
10. Fill piping bag fitted with 104 tip with white buttercream and pipe ribbons on to the cake above the flames, all the way up to the base of the doll's torso.
11. Attach the white feathers at varying heights.
12. To cover the torso, pipe white buttercream with a 101, 102 tip.
13. Place lace detail onto cake over doll's left shoulder.
14. Serve when desired. You can store this cake in the fridge for 2-3 days.
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