Instructions
Start with an ivory iced cake splattered with gold luster paint.
Color some buttercream using an offset spatula and a palette board. Use regal purple and espresso to achieve a smooth, medium consistency buttercream.
Mark the top and sides of where you want to paint your turkey.
Add spatula-pulled dot strokes in a curved line connecting the top feathers to the side feathers. Allow the buttercream to crust over before adding the next layer.
Make a deep red color by combining burgundy with espresso. Use this buttercream for the next layer. Start at the top and work your way down to the sides. Let it crust over.
Color some buttercream pumpkin orange with espresso for the third layer. Repeat the process as above.
Next, use ivory buttercream and finish with the purple used above.
With a piping bag fitted with tip #805 and dark espresso buttercream, pipe a large circle for the body and a small circle for the head of the turkey.
Fit three piping bags with 1M tips filled with purple, deep red, and orange buttercream. Pipe swirls on top of the cake alternating colors. Start at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock positions, then fill in the gaps with the remaining colors. Add gold pearls to each swirl before the icing crusts over.
Fit a piping bag with tip #5 filled with espresso buttercream and another bag with tip #3 filled with pumpkin buttercream. Pipe the turkey's legs, feet, and beak using these colors. Use espresso buttercream to attach black sugar pearls for the eyes.
Mix wedding gold luster dust with grain alcohol to form a paint. Paint the ivory section of feathers with this gold paint.
Add the turkey's snood with red buttercream using tip #3.
Finish the cake with a spray of gold diamond dust.
Following these steps will result in a beautifully decorated spatula painted turkey cake. Enjoy!
