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Cake Decorating – Top Tips #1

 I thought I’d share my 5 top cake decorating tips this week, just very little bits and pieces that I’ve learnt along the way and make life ten tons easier!

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Easter Lambs – Creme Egg Animals!

 

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If you remember the Easter chicks from last year you’ll know I have a thing for turning a Creme Eggs into something else for Easter,  this year it’s lambs!

You will need:

Creme Egg

Sugarpaste; white, peach/flesh/pink, black plus green and pink for flowers and leaves

Use ready coloured or colour your own using gel paste colours

Black edible ink icing pen

Pink lustre dust and soft paintbrush

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Day 1 – Christmas Cake Decorating

Hurrah!  Today is the 1st December so it can mean only one thing – the start of The Pink Whisk 12 Days of Christmas.  If you weren’t here last year  then it’s one Christmas recipe each day for the first 12 days of December (then I collapse in a heap).

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Santa, Rudolph and Cheeky Elf Cake

 

A cute character Christmas cake which everyone will love

(and it’s simpler than you might think!)

You will need:

1 x 8″ Christmas Cake, marzipanned and iced  See here for the how to

10″ Cake card

Ribbon for trimming around the base of the cake

Sugarpaste; white, flesh, red, green, brown and dark brown.

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How to Marzipan & Ice your Christmas Cake

Important steps before you decorate your Christmas Cake!  There’s lots of different ways to do it, but here’s how I do….

For an 8″ cake you will need:

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Making a Bow Topper and Ribbon Tails

I thought it would be useful to show you how to make an oversized bow topper and tails for a cake.  It needs a bit of forward planning for the drying out stage but looks super impressive, especially on a tiered cake.  

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How to use Sugarveil Sheets

The possibilities are endless.  Here are my tips for cutting, working and applying sugarveil to your cakes.

So you now have a sheet of Sugarveil and you want to use it on a cake.

Plan out your design, for simplicity I’m wrapping the collar of a cake with Sugarveil.

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Sugarveil – A How To… Part 1

I promised you a Sugarveil how to back in June when I used it for my Sister’s Wedding Cake. So here it is….

Sugarveil is an edible icing product that starts out liquid and using a special mat you can form flexible edible sheets of icing lace in various designs.

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Sugarveil – A How To… Part 2

Removing from the Mat

First up lay a sheet of non-stick baking paper just over twice the size of the mat on the worksurface.  I have done it directly onto the worktop which resulted in the sheet sticking to it like glue,  after all that hard work you don’t need that!

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How to Scale Up a Cake Recipe

Not a recipe today after all the wedding cake antics I have a lot of catching up to do!

A question I get asked a lot is how to change a recipe to bake it in a bigger or different sized tin.

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