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Baby Buggy Cake

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1-1/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
FROSTING:
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups confectioners' sugar

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3 tablespoons milk
Pink and blue gel food coloring
Pastry coupler ring (optional—see note)
Pastry tips—basketweave tip #48, round tip #5, star tip #32, and drop flower tip #129
14-inch square covered board


Cake: In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add the
eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the
vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add to
the creamed mixture alternately with the sour cream. Spread batter
into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at
350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the

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Baby Buggy Cake

center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing the cakes
from pans to wire racks to cool completely. From one cake, cut out
and remove one-fourth of the cake in one wedge, creating the buggy
shape. Set wedge aside. Place buggy on covered board. From the
rounded side of the reserved wedge, cut a 3-1/2-in.-long x
1-1/4-in.-wide slight curved shape for the handle. Set aside. From
the second round cake, cut two 3-3/4-in. circles for the wheels.
Position the cake handle and wheels next to the cake buggy on the
covered board. Save cake scraps for another use. Frosting:
In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, shortening and vanilla. Add
the confectioner's sugar and milk. Mix well. Place 1/3 cup of
frosting in each of two bowls. Tint one pink and the other blue.
Frost the cakes white. Cut a hole in the corner of a pastry or

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plastic bag. Insert the basket weave pastry tip and remaining white
frosting. To begin the pattern on buggy's bottom section, pipe one
vertical line, then pipe several short horizontal lines that overlap
the vertical line. Repeat this process, making the horizontal lines
alternate and connect the vertical lines, until the entire bottom
section has a basketweave pattern. Cut a hole in another bag.
Insert star tip and pink frosting. Pipe a rope border around the
handle, wheels and hood. Pipe two dividing lines on hood. Replace
star tip with flower tip. Pipe three pink flowers in the center of
buggy's bottom section. Set aside remaining pink frosting. Cut a
hole in remaining bag. Insert the star tip and blue frosting. Pipe a
rope border around buggy's bottom section. Replace star tip with
flower tip. Pipe three blue flowers among the pink ones on the buggy.

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Replace flower tip with round tip. Pipe two blue spokes on each
wheel and add the center on each pink flower. With pink frosting,
pipe two more spokes and add the blue flower centers.


Yield:

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