I usually decorate with fondant. I haven't been brave enough to tackle piping with traditional icing. I think my problem has been using the wrong icing. Store-bought icing never looks quite right when I use it to decorate. This time I tried Wilton's recipe for Buttercream icing, and it made it easy. I'm so happy I tried this out.
Of course, I had a great little helper.
When I looked at my inspiration cakes I though I would have to mess with 20 different bags of icing, each a different color, but I just kept mixing in lighter icing to my one bag.
The birthday girl loved it!!!
