Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft — December 2017

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

SIMPLE AND STYLISH

YOU WILL NEED

EDIBLES:

• 18cm (7in) sugarpaste covered
  square cake on a 25cm (10in)
  square board which should
  also be covered.


• 18cm (7in) square cake (iced)


• 50g sugarpaste: white


• 50g sugarpaste: red


• 50g sugarpaste: green


• 1tsp CMC, Tylose or gum
  tragacanth


• food colour: red and gold


• edible balls: gold


• 3 tbsp royal icing

EQUIPMENT:

• 25cm (10in) square board
  (iced)


• letter templates


• baking parchment


• pencil


• scissors


• craft knife


• fine paintbrush


• rolling pin


• piping bags


• no.1 piping tip


• holly cutter


• ribbon

Using lettering to spell out an event can be an easy way to create a stylish cake. It could

be used for other occasions too. You could spell out ‘party’ or ‘wedding’ on a cake or the

recipient’s name. The internet is an extremely useful source for different styles of lettering

so mix and match different styles. The lettering on this cake is created using a mixture of

techniques. Some are runouts, some are cut outs.

CHRISTMAS

Letters

1 Trace the letters onto baking

paper. Place the letters ‘R’ and

‘A’ under another sheet of baking

paper and pipe around the outlines

using a little red royal icing in a

piping bag fitted with a no.1 piping

tip. Make a couple of spares.

CAKE ARTIST:

Carol Deacon

2 Mix a tiny bit of water into about a

tablespoon of red royal icing. When

you lift the knife out of the icing the

‘tail’ should disappear in a count of

three. Place the icing into a piping bag

and close it. Snip a little off the end of

the bag and flood the letter outlines.

Leave to dry, preferably overnight.

3 Carefully cut the remaining letters

out of baking paper so that they

can be used as templates. Thinly roll

out the green sugarpaste. Place the

letter ‘C’ on top and cut around it.

4 Cut out the letters ‘t’ and ‘m’

in green and place to one side

to harden.

5 Roll out the white sugarpaste

and cut out the letters ‘h’, ‘i’ and

the small ‘s’. Roll out the red

sugarpaste and cut out the big

letter ‘S’. Use a piping tip to cut out

the dot for the ‘i’.

6 Decorate the green letters ‘C’

and ‘m’ with edible gold balls,

sticking the balls in place with

dots of royal icing. Pipe white dots

onto the letter ‘t’.

Please download the template

from http://www.cakedecmag.uk

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