Hi everyone!-
Today we’ve put together a cake design in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We have all been effected by breast cancer…whether personally or through a loved one. Today’s cake design is simple, but highlights the hope that we all hold for a cure. For those of you who are looking for cake ideas for various fundraisers and events this month, I hope you find our tutorial helpful!
First, I started with an 8″ strawberry cake, frosted with vanilla buttercream. Smooth your frosting however you’d like, (I used the “Viva paper towel method”.)
I tinted my frosting with Americolor Deep Pink, Wilton Rose, and Americolor Chocolate Brown. Using a Wilton piping tip 2, I piped a tree trunk in the center of the cake. I basically started with an outline of the trunk.
I filled in the trunk with more piped strands of frosting to give the tree more texture. Next, I piped pink ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness all over the cake in various shades of pink. Any small round tip will do, but I used a Wilton 2.
I also filled in the tree with words that I associate with breast cancer. Words like “hope”, “fight”, “find a cure”, “survivor”, etc.
I continued to fill in our tree, with words, ribbons, hearts, dots, etc. and finally I decided to sneak in some leaves too. For the leaves, I used a Wilton leaf tip 352. The buttercream for my leaves was tinted with Americolor Electric Green.
Around the sides of the cake, I continued piping words that I associate with Breast Cancer Awareness. This is similar to a design I’ve done in the past…I like the white on white. It doesn’t distract from our tree, but adds more meaning to or design.
I added a ball border using a medium sized round tip (Tip 10), and I added the word “hope” in white using a Wilton tip 2.
I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial! Here’s a final shot, revealing our strawberry cake on the inside. Pink! 
Thanks for joining us, we’ll see you next time!
As a 9yr survivor, I love this cake!! Thank you as always for sharing your ideas and talent. Love you guys!!
As someone who just participated last weekend in the 2014 Run for the Cure 5K run, thank you for this beautiful cake. And Tracy congratulations on your 9 years ♥
What a wonderful and thoughtful cake. Love every part of it. And yes, congratulations Tracy. And nice job on your 5k run Shawn :)
Thank you so much for your comments! Tracy, that is wonderful and truly something to be proud of. Congrats on being a 9 yr survivor!
Amazing cake as always!
So lovely, God bless you for sharing your talents with us all Melissa!
Beautiful idea, Melissa….God bless you for sharing all these ideas….
Be blessed
This is a beautiful cake, my Mom was diagnosed a couple of weeks ago and I will definitely be making this for her when she visits next week. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Thanks so much for your comments. @Mandy, I am sorry to hear about your mom’s diagnosis- sending prayers for healing & a full recovery xoxo
It’s gorgeous, and very fine
Hi. I love this cake. I lost my mum to cancer 20yr ago now. I will re create this as love doin cakes. Her birthday is Nov 5th so might do this cake in her memory.
19 1/2 yr survivor!
Just Beautiful cake!
Thanks!
Simply amazing! You are a wonderful person to share all these thoughtful ideas with us; god bless you!
I am trying to add the Brest cancer cake to my favorite list and when I log in it saids I am not a member
Melissa’ great work….congratulations. Thanks for sharing.
I have to make desserts for a event for breast cancer. Do you think this would work on cupcakes? I wouldn’t put the words on the side, just make the tops like the cake design.
Lucy
Hi Lucy, yes I think that the encouraging words on top of the cupcakes would look really nice.