Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft — December 2017

YOU WILL NEED

EDIBLES:

• round cakes: 20cm x 5cm (8in
  x 2in) covered using 500g sand
  coloured sugarpaste and 15cm
  x 18cm (6in x 9in) covered
  using 1.5kg white sugarpaste


• 500g sugarpaste: red


• airbrush colours: burgundy, red,
  pink, orange, turquoise, blue,
  navy, blue-green


• 100g modelling paste: white


• 25g modelling paste each of:
  burgundy, red, pink, orange,
  peach, yellow, gold, blue-green,
  blue and light blue


• soft light brown sugar


• sugar glue

EQUIPMENT:

• town template


• 25cm (10in) cake board


• red ribbon


• airbrush


• round headed dressmakers pins


• stencils: mini snowfl ake C271 and
  small crystal snowfl akes C747


• waxed paper or tracing paper


• scriber


• 1mm spacers (Lindy’s Cakes)


• craft knife


• set square


• paintbrushes


• cutters: Lindy’s simple
  arabesque tile cutter set, Lindy’s
  large oval cutter set, Lindy’s
  tote handbag cutter, Lindy’s
  pointed oval cutter set, Lindy’s
  equilateral triangle cutter set,
  Lindy’s stylish stars cutter set


• fl uid writer (Lindy’s Cakes)


• sugar shaper/sugarcraft gun

‘Oh Little Town of Bethlehem’ is one of our favourite carols, but did you know it was inspired

by a perilous journey taken on horseback on Christmas Eve 1865? The journey the carol’s

lyricist Phillips Brooks took, was from Jerusalem to Bethlehem where he was to assist at the

midnight service in the church of the nativity.

OH LITTLE TOWN

of Bethlehem

EDITOR

LOVES

http://www.cakedecorationmagazine.co.uk December 2017 | 27

CHRISTMAS CAROL CAKES

CAKE ARTIST:

Lindy Smith

1 Decorate the edges of your board,

using an airbrush and snowfl ake stencils.

Start with the burgundy airbrush colour

and the largest crystal snowfl ake stencil,

hold the stencil on the board or slightly

over the edge and spray until you are

happy with the depth of colour. Leave a

space, reposition the stencil and spray

again. Change the stencil design and

colour and repeat.

2 To fi ll any gaps between the

crystal snowfl akes on the covered

board, take the mini snowfl ake

stencils and add these to the

pattern, taking care not to smudge

the wet snowfl akes beneath. ➜

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