Directions (continued)
- Combine 1/4 cup vanilla frosting and red food coloring in a small
- bowl. In a second bowl, combine 1/3 cup vanilla frosting and yellow
- food coloring. Cover and chill until ready to use. In a third bowl,
- combine 2/3 cup vanilla frosting and 2/3 cup chocolate frosting to
- make a medium brown color. Save remaining dark chocolate frosting
- for outline and details. Using a metal spatula, spread a thin layer
- of medium brown frosting onto cut top and sides of cake. Chill
- remaining medium brown frosting until ready to use again.
- Cut a small hole in the corner of the plastic or pastry bag for
- pastry tip. Insert round tip into bag. Fill bag with dark chocolate
- frosting. Following the pattern, outline boot shape, inside designs
- and bootstrap. On cake top, fill in heel, top of sole and top of
- boot with lines of frosting as shown in photo above. Fill in bottom
- sole on edge of cake, smoothing with a metal spatula.
- Prepare another plastic or pastry bag, inserting the star tip. Fill
- bag with yellow frosting. Holding the bag straight up and down, form
- stars on the inside of the boot design outline. Also form stars for
- the bootstrap buckle.
- Wash star tip and insert into a third plastic or pastry bag. Fill
- bag with red frosting. Using the same procedure, form stars inside
- the bootstrap outline. Wash star tip and insert into a fourth
- plastic or pastry bag. Fill bag with medium brown frosting. Using
- the same procedure, form stars on remaining areas of boot.
- In a "spur" is desired, place traced waxed paper spur on a piece of
- cardboard. Trace around pattern and cut out spur. Cover spur with
- foil. Glue a toothpick to the back of spur and insert into boot (see
- photo). Yield: 12-16 servings.
Editor's Note: If using liquid food coloring, you may need to add confectioners' sugar to thicken frosting for piping. To finish boot pattern, use waxed paper to trace boot piece on this page to asterisks at edge of page. Then move waxed paper to match asterisks on next page and trace rest of boot. Trace toe piece onto waxed paper. Cut out both patterns. Place both patterns onto cake and cut around patterns.