Quick and easy Frosting tricks no special equipment needed!

With a fork, spoon, spatula, or a piece of string, you can make your frosting “fancy” ... as the simple ideas on these pages show. And with our Betty Crocker Frosting Mixes, you can be sure of perfect frosting—always just right to handle easily.

Use Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Malt, or Peanut Creme Frosting Mix for these tricks:

Scallops—With teaspoon inverted, press tip into frosted cake. Repeat in rows across cake for all over design.

Spiral—Hold spatula at center of frosted cake. Gradually draw spatula toward you, while turning cake.

Crisscross—Draw tines of fork across cake. Repeat at right angles to first markings. Place colorful candies in squares.

Swirly squares—Draw lines through frosting with knife. Repeat at right angles, drawing lines in opposite ways.

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The Frosting on the cake shows you care

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.

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.

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.

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.

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