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YOU WILL NEED### EDIBLES: 1 x 20cm (8in) cake 12.7cm (5in) tall 1 x 15cm (6in) cake 10cm (4in) tall your choice of filling chocolate ganache or buttercream forcrumb coating 2.5kg white sugarpaste 200g modelling paste: black (Saracino) 100g modelling paste: blue (Saracino) edible colour dust: silver (Rolkem) airbrush paint: black and white (Kroma) Shell and Shine (Dinkydoodle)EQUIPMENT: 25cm (10in) round cake board 20cm (8in) and 15cm (6in) cake cards 2 x dowels dowel cutter rolling pin airbrush (I used a Clairella airbrush) stitching tool craft knife scissors double-sided tape/non-toxic gluestick ruler palette knife smoothers acetate smoothers black ribbon to trim the board Dresden tool 1cm circle plunge cutter (PME) 8/9mm round piping tip 1mm piping tip1 Cover the 25cm round cake boardwith white sugarpaste, trimming offexcess as you would a pie then smoothwith a smoother.2 Using an airbrush, colour the boardwith black then set aside to dry.``````3 Once dry, cover your work surface forprotection then spray the board withShell and Shine/glaze to give a glossyfinish. Once dried, add on a black ribbonto the sides of the board making surethe ribbon joins at the side at the backof the cake.``````4 Torte, fill and crumb coat your cake,then ice in your choice of white icingusing the smoothers to ensure thesides and top are level. Press the 15cmcake card onto the top of the cake tomark out a guide for when you addyour pleats to the cake.``````5 Roll out 50g of white sugarpaste andusing either a ruler measuring 1.5inwide or with a ribbon cutter cut outstrips of paste to make the pleats.``````6 Check the size against your cake soyou can work out the size it will needto be, then cut all of the pleats to thesame size. Fold over the left hand sideof the pleats.``````7 Using the stitching tool, mark on adouble line of stitching at the bottom ofeach pleat.``````8 Attach to the cake with sugar glue orcool boiled water so that the bottom ofthe pleat is slightly longer than the caketo give a skirt-like finish. Once pleats areattached, use the 15cm cake card as aguide to cut out a circle slightly larger,so that the top cake will sit inside of thetop of the pleats.``````9 Mix in three/four drops of blackwith white for the airbrush. Use acocktail stick to mix the colourstogether and spray onto a piece ofkitchen roll to check you are happywith the colour. Start at the top of``````Cake artist:Sarah Lou Smith