Kathie Oh's Recipe

Spring UP! Party Cake

Category: specialties

1-10.75 ounce purchased, or 8-inch-by-5-inch homemade, loaf cake
Flower and butterfly-shaped sugar cookies, homemade* or purchased
6-inch lollipop sticks
1 can purchased vanilla frosting
Gel or liquid food coloring
Assorted cake decorations
2 feet ribbon



Level the top of the loaf cake. On cooling rack placed over sided cookie sheet turn cake upside-down.
Remove 1 cup of the frosting and reserve. In a microwave, heat remaining frosting 40 seconds. Add color, stir to combine. Pour over upside-down cake and smooth icing. Let dry completely.
Make and cut out sugar cookies. Carefully place about 1-inch of a lollipop stick through the middle of each cookie at its base: bake and let cool completely. Decorate with reserved icing and decorations as desired. Let dry completely.
Stick decorated cookies in flower box. Pipe a fine line of icing along one long edge of the ribbon. Adhere ribbon to the top of the flower box. Make and adhere bow to front of flower box with icing, if desired.