Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft — December 2017

YOU WILL NEED

EDIBLES:

• a round angel cake
  30cm x 10cm high


• 700g Chantilly cream


• 500g wild berries


• 500g buttercream


• 4kg white sugarpaste


• desiccated coconut


• gelatine


• royal icing


• airbrush colours: brown, black,
  yellow, white, blue and green
  (Cassie Brown)


• dusting colours: gold, foliage
  green, yellow autumn, lime, ruby,
  brown, white, pearl white
  (Sugar Flair, EdAble Art)


• gel colour chestnut (Sugarfl air)


• 500g modelling paste:
  white and red


• 500g fl ower paste


• gold sugar for sugar lace
  (Cake &Cake)


• glaze


• edible glue


• printed wafer paper


• edible metallic spray: gold and
  bronze

I imagined this Christmas cake as Victorian, with Victorian

prints recalling The Twelve Days of Christmas’ song...fi ve

gold rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle

doves and a partridge in a pear tree!

TWELVE DAYS

of Christmas

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TRADITIONAL

CAKE ARTIST:

Veronica Seta

EQUIPMENT:

• 1 x round dummy 40cm x 5cm


• 1 x round board 30cm


• 1 x round dummy 20cm x 10cm


• 1 x round dummy 15cm x 15cm


• 1 x round dummy 10cm x 10cm


• CelPad


• Airbrush


• Poinsettia veiner, universal leaves,
  fl owers and holly veiners.
  (Italian Sugar Art)


• stamens (A Piece of Cake)


• rose calyx cutter (Decora)


• round pastry cutter


• heart cutter


• paint brushes


• silicone modelling brush


• Dresden tool


• ball tool


• cutter tool


• rolling pin


• non-slip mat


• fl orist wires: 18, 20, 28, 26 and 33
  (Hamilworth)


• fl orist tape: pale green, white and
  brown (Hamilworth)


• tinfoil


• lace mats (Cake Supplies 4 U, Four C)


• moulds (MouldsWorld, Karen Davies,
  Karen Baking, Art to Bite)


• fl ower pics

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This incredible

cake was one

of our top 10

GBCD competition

winners last year!

Photography: Marco Seta.

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