Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft — December 2017

YOU WILL NEED

EDIBLES:

• sugarpaste: white


• fl ower paste: white


• edible paints: red, white, dark
  green, green and bronze


• royal icing


• piping gel


• vegetable fat


• cornfl our for dusting

EQUIPMENT:

• non-stick mats


• rolling pin


• paint brushes


• paint palette


• snowfl ake metal cutter (M&S)


• deer metal cutter (M&S)


• snowfl ake plunger cutters


• square cakes: 15 x 15 x 15cm
  (6 x 6 x 6in)


• square cake board

*For choux pastry ingredients, see

steps and for the biscuit decorations,

please use your own preferred fl avour

and recipe or visit our website for our

editors favourite Christmas

biscuit recipe.

This is an easy tutorial that can be done with all the family

as it is built from edible pieces and involves lots of baking

and painting fun. For me, Christmas is about family and the

simple things so the main cake could be fruit or a ginger cake

or both as it is so tall. The decoration is made of biscuits,

fl ower paste snowfl akes and delicious choux pastry mini buns

fi lled with chocolate ganache to resemble a Christmas tree

and covered in spun sugar strands to add chic sparkle!

CHRISTMAS

Croquembouche cake

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CAKE ARTIST:

Enrique Rojas

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