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BUDDY SHARES HIS COOL LOOKS FOR SUMMER

Master cake baker, Buddy Valastro, from TLC's Cake Boss, knows how to make a cool cake. Check out his latest creations...

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  Tropical Flower Cake

  1. Follow the recipes to the right to bake and cover the cake in yellow fondant.
  2. Using a piping bag and a sea-shell tip, pipe a boarder around the base of the cake.
  3. Decorate using flowers (either fresh or sugar)
  4. To make sugar flowers, roll out fondant to paper thin, then use a petal cutter to cut out various designs and shapes of each flower.  After they are cut, place them on a petal pad and use a ball tool to "texturize" each leaf.  Place texturized leaf on a stem and layer petals to form your flower.
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  Beach Cake

  1. Follow the recipes to the right to bake and cover the cake in blue fondant.
  2. Using a piping bag and a sea-shell tip, pipe boarder around the base of the cake.
  3. Using a sea-shell mold, press white fondant into the mold and take an impression.
  4. Once the fondant shells have been formed, paint using edible petal dust.
  5. Add some light brown sugar on top of the cake to serve as sand.
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  Tiki Cake

  1. Follow the recipes to the right to bake and cover the cake in white fondant.
  2. Take bamboo sticks and cut to about 3” and make a boarder around the cake. Bamboo sticks can be purchased, or you can form them using green and yellow fondant.
  3. Use modeling chocolate to sculpt a tiki face.
  4. To make the palm trees, roll out brown fondant and shape into the "trunk". Then use a texturing tool to create the bark impressions.  For the leaves, use green fondant and a leaf mold and press out the leaves for the tree.
  5. For the pineapples, press white fondant into a pineapple mold, remove and paint.