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Before you start:
Using your favorite recipes bake, fill and assemble a 16", 12", 9" and 6" cake plus two 8" satellite cakes.
Take the four 7" White Columns (included), and using a saw or serrated knife, cut them down to the height of your 16" cake. Also, take the eight 6" Support Legs and cut four of them down to the height of your 9" and four of them down to the height of your 12" cakes. Then, tape 3 cake boards together (one size for each tier) then wrap Picot Ribbon around the edge and attach using a glue gun or tape.

1. Take the four 7" White Columns that you have already cut down to the height of your 16" cake and attach them to a 12" tier plate. Carefully press the legs through the 16" cake, making four holes. Remove the tier separator from the cake. Details.
2. Ice the cake.
3. Wrap Picot Ribbon around bottom of the cake.
4. On the top edge of the cake, divide and mark the cake into 12 sections. You will need these markings later to pipe the drapes evenly.
5. For the bottom border, pipe a shell border with a #22 tip.
6. Using the marks that you have previously made, pipe a ruffle drape with a #88 tip.
7. Then pipe a smaller drape inside of the large drape using tip #16.
8. Pipe a string drape over the large drape with a #16.
9. For the top border, pipe a reverse shell border with #16.
10. Take the tier plate and columns you used in step 1 and push through to the bottom of the cake using the holes that you have previously made.
11. Pipe small roses and rosebuds with a #104 and leaves with a #67.
12. Pipe a shell teardrop between each drape with a #22.
13. Pipe a loop over each teardrop with a #16 as shown.

1. Take a 9" tier plate and attach four of the 6" Support Legs that you already cut down to the height of your 12" cake. Push the legs through to the bottom of the 12" cake. Take out the plate and the legs. You now have your holes marked for later.
2. Ice the cake.
3. Wrap Picot Ribbon around bottom of cake.
4. Divide and mark the cake edge into 12 sections.
5. For the bottom border, pipe a shell border with a #22.
6. Using the marks that you have previously made, pipe a shell drape with a #16.
7. Then pipe a smaller drape inside of the large drape with a #16.
8. Pipe a string drape over the large drape with a #16.
9. Pipe a shell teardrop between each drape with a #22.
10. Pipe a loop at every intersection with a #16.
11. Pipe rosettes at the top of teardrops with a #16.
12. For the top border, pipe a reverse shell border with #16.
13. Take the tier plate that you used in step 1 and push it through the holes that you have previously made. Pipe squiggles, cornelli lace or sotas over the 9" tier plate to cover it up. Now take four of the included 4" Cupid Columns - Ivory and attach them to the 9" tier plate that you have just pushed into the cake. Then take another 9" tier plate and attach it to the top of the Cupid Columns.
14. Pipe small roses and rosebuds with a #104 and leaves with a #67 using the marks from step 4.

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