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How to Decorate a Cake with Flag Bunting

By Heather Baird
Created January 10, 2017
This small touch has big impact! Learn how easy (really!) it is to decorate a homemade cake with a Fruit Roll-Up bunting.
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This all-purpose party cake couldn’t be easier to decorate! From birthdays to graduations, this is the perfect trick to have up your sleeve. 

What you’ll need:

How to:

1.  Begin with a freshly frosted cake. It can be any color you like, but the fruit snacks show up best on a background of bright white frosting.

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2.  Fruit By The Foot rolls will have different styles of perforation. Use one with the “zig-zag” or “zipper” perforation and one with line perforations for this project. Separate the fruit snacks at the perforation.

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3.  Drape one of the zigzag strips across the top of the cake, in the style of a hanging banner, and snip the excess with kitchen scissors.

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4.  Drape one of the line perforated strips across the cake, crossing the previous strip. Cut away the excess with kitchen scissors.

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5.  Unroll the Fruit Roll-Up, remove it from the plastic backing and cut triangle shapes from it using the kitchen scissors.

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6.  Place the triangles on the cake along the second fruit snack line. This creates the look of flag bunting.

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7.  Gently press the pieces into the frosting to adhere.

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8.  Sprinkle the top of the cake with rainbow sprinkles, if desired.

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9.  And you’re done!  This cake would be welcome at most any celebration. You can even change up the colors with different flavors of fruit snacks.

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