Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft — New Trends 2018

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20 To open the mouth, you can use

the spoon side of your Dresden tool

to pull down the bottom lip. Using

the smile tool, mark in both eyes.

MAKING THE EARS

21 Roll the paste for the ears into

two small balls and flatten slightly.

Using a Dresden tool, mark in the

inside parts of the ears by pressing

down gently.

22 Using your knife, cut along the

bottom so that the edge to attach to

the mouse is straight.

23 Roll out two tiny balls of pink

modelling paste and attach to the

inside of the ears. Using a tiny

amount of edible glue, attach both

ears to the mouse.

MAKING THE NOSE

24 Roll out a tiny ball of black

modelling paste, then pinch it gently

between your fingers to make a

triangle shape.

25 Cut off the back at an angle so

that the nose sits nicely against the

face and attach. Add in two nostrils

using the Dresden tool.

MAKING THE EYELASHES

AND EYEBROWS

26 Roll out a very thin sausage of

black modelling paste, add a very fine

line of glue to the eyes and where

you would like the eyebrows to sit

and attach these to the mouse.

27 You can add on two tiny extra

pieces to add eyelashes to the

corners of the eyes.

MAKING THE TONGUE

28 Roll out a tiny ball of pink paste,

and shape it into a teardrop shape.

29 Using your Dresden tool, press

down lengthways to make an

indentation on the tongue. Attach to

the mouse using edible glue and press

into place with the flat end of your

Dresden tool.

ATTACHING THE MOUSE

TO THE CAKE

30 Using edible glue attach the

mouse’s body to the cake in

front of the pillow.

31 Attach the mouse’s head to

the indented part of the pillow,

with the face slightly to the left.

MAKING THE COVERS

32 Roll out 30g of sugarpaste

and cut into a large rectangle

(large enough to cover ¾ of

the cake). Using a stitching tool

add detail to top and bottom

of sheet and using a ruler,

mark diagonal lines to create

triangles.

33 Use the snowflake cutter to

emboss a pattern in the centre

of each triangle.

34 Lay sugarpaste over mouse,

underneath it’s chin and across

the cake. Add small dots of

edible glue to attach it. ➜

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