Tree of Hope for Breast Cancer Awareness~ Blog Tutorial

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we've created a beautiful, simple, Tree of Hope Cake Design.

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. 

How to Make a Tree of Hope Cake

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 hope that you enjoy this Tree of Hope cake design.