Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft — December 2017

http://www.cakedecorationmagazine.co.uk December 2017 | 17

You will need

EDIBLES:

• concentrated food colour:
  forest green (Colour Splash)


• modelling paste: metallic gold


• 10mm pearls - multi
  (Purple Cupcakes)


• 7mm pearls - multi
  (Purple Cupcakes)


• cute Christmas bunting sugar
  decorations


• buttercream


• tray bake cake

EQUIPMENT:

• buttercream combs
  (Cake Star)


• piping bags (Cake Star)


• round cutter set (DecoPac)


• star cutter set (DecoPac)


• cranked palette knife

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Christmas Tree Traybake

Turn a simple traybake into a festive showstopper with cute Christmas sugar bunting

and edible decorations. Perfect for Christmas parties - and so easy to do!

1 Cover the top of the tray bake

with plain white buttercream.

2 Colour the remaining

buttercream with Colour Splash

forest green to a dark shade.

Note that the colour will deepen

after the buttercream has dried.

3 Fill a clean piping bag with the

forest green buttercream, and

then cut off the end of the bag.

4 Pipe a single line down the

middle of the tray bake then two

horizontal lines across this to create

a guide to pipe a tree, as pictured.

5 Pipe a triangle tree onto the

tray bake following the piped

guide lines.

6 Next, use the saw tooth comb

from the Cake Star comb set to

create a vertical texture down the

tree to create the fi rst pattern.

7 From the centre of the tree, sweep

the comb outwards. Follow the

same pattern down the tree until

complete, see pictures for guidance.

8 Unwrap the cute Christmas

bunting sugar decorations and lay

them out on a clean dry surface.

Begin adding them to the top of

the tray bake using three picture

bunting fl ags.

9 For the next row of bunting,

spell out the word ‘MERRY’ on the

buttercream tree.

10 Take seven picture bunting

fl ags and space them out evenly

on the tree to make the third row.

11 Spell out the word

‘CHRISTMAS’ and place the fl ags

out evenly on the tree as pictured.

12 Arrange the remaining picture

bunting fl ags to complete the

bottom row.

13 Use the Purple Cupcakes

pearls to create a string of lights

cascading down and around the

tree as pictured.

14 Lastly roll out the gold metallic

modelling paste and cut a 50mm

star and stick at the top of the

tree to fi nish.

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