[Illustration: Plaid Cake—Use Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting
Mix. Frost cake. Dip string in food coloring; stretching it taut,
press into frosting. Repeat. Use new string for each color. Make up
your own plaid design.]
[Illustration: Christmas Balls—Use Betty Crocker Malt Frosting Mix.
Frost cake. Save ¼ cup frosting. Cut tiny corner off envelope.
Squeeze frosting through envelope to trim vari-colored flat mints.
Press onto cake.]
[Illustration: Hobnail Fudge Frosting—Use Betty Crocker Chocolate
Fudge Frosting Mix. Frost top of cake thickly. Press down with bowl
of teaspoon, swirl slightly; draw up sharply. Repeat for an all over
hobnail design.]
[Illustration: Glossy Web—Use Betty Crocker Peanut Creme Frosting
Mix. Frost cake. Melt 1 sq. unsweetened chocolate (1 oz.). Dip knife
in chocolate. Mark circles on top of cake. Draw knife out from
center for web.]
_For glamor in a hurry, try these_
Teaspoon Tricks
with Frosting Mix!
_Quick Tricks_ with Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting Mix.
[Illustration: Bunny: Tint ½ cup frosting pink. Fill teaspoon with
frosting; with second spoon, ease off mounds of frosting for body
and head of bunny. Dabs of white frosting make “cottontail” and
ears. Add cinnamon candy eyes and coconut whiskers.]
[Illustration: Dahlia: Tint 1 cup frosting yellow. Drop 10 mounds of
frosting around center of cake. Draw out with spoon to make petal
shapes. Add 10 smaller mounds for second layer of petals, pulling
tips up with spoon. Shape center; decorate with silver dragées.]
Easy Flowers with Decorator Icing (p. 9)—or use Betty Crocker Chocolate
Fudge, Chocolate Malt, or Peanut Creme Frosting Mix. (½ cup makes 5 or 6
flowers.)
[Illustration: Put a gumdrop on a toothpick. Fill tip end of
teaspoon with icing, smooth it off along edge of cup.]
[Illustration: Draw spoon gently down over gumdrop; off comes one
petal. Continue around the gumdrop in same way.]
[Illustration: Add a second row of petals. Place finished flower on
cake. Remove toothpick. Repeat for flowers desired.]