FAIRY HOUSE CAKE TUTORIAL

FAIRY HOUSE CAKE TUTORIAL

Jun 5, 2020 | Modelling

Author: Lynsey Wilton-Eddleston

FB: SUGARWHIZZ

Skill level: BEGINNERS

We do believe in fairies! And now you can too. Join our ambassador Lynsey from Sugarwhizz as she shows you step by step how to make this adorable magical fairy and her little house! Perfect for believers of all ages!

 

 

You will need:

  • 400g – Cream coloured Saracino top paste (Sugarpaste) To get cream add a tiny amount of Saracino skin tone gel colour to white paste.

  • 200g – Green Saracino top paste (Sugarpaste)

  • 711g – White Saracino Pasta Model (modelling paste) coloured and divided as follows

  • Saracino Colours Gel paste: Brown, Violet, Blue, Black, Green, Skin tone, Yellow. Colour and divide your paste as follows –

Brown Gel Colour – 120g – Branch around base, 25g – Door, 24g – Windows

Black Gel colour – 25g Dark grey – Stones, 25g Medium grey – Stones, 32g Light grey – Stones, chimney and door fixings, 7g Black – Window and eyes

Green Gel colour – 115g green – Moss under roof, 2g Dark green – Grass (add a touch of violet gel colour to the green paste to darken)

Blue Gel colour – 250g Pale blue for roof. (add a small amount of black to blue paste to create a pale navy colour), 1g Blue – Eyes

Violet Gel colour – 70g light purple – Small Roof, 5g dark purple – Body and arms

Yellow Gel colour – 2g Hair

Skin tone Gel colour – 5g – Girl

  • White modelling paste – 3g
  • Saracino powder – White, Brown, Green, Pearl and Silver Lustre
  • A six-inch sphere cake
  • 10in round cake drum
  • Baking parchment
  • Knife
  • Rolling pin
  • Balling tool (Cerart, K500, K501 & K502)
  • Dresden tool (Cerart 301)
  • Small Star tipped piping nozzle
  • Cool boiled water/ edible glue
  • Small paintbrush for gluing
  • Small paintbrush for painting
  • Small flat paintbrushes for dusting and painting
  • Small stiff bristled paintbrush.
  • Small amount of royal icing.
  • 60g of rice crispy treats
  • Green ribbon

 

Step 1

To cover cake – Roll out 250g of Cream Saracino top paste to a thickness of around 5mm. Carefully lift the paste and place it on top of your cake.

Step 2

Smooth the paste down the sides, across the top and round underneath the sphere. Trim the excess paste away with a sharp knife. Don’t worry it doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth

Step 3

Press gently with your fingertips all over the sphere to create a slightly uneven surface. Use a stiff bristled paintbrush to gently press in and texture the whole surface of the sphere. TIP: Stiff bristled paintbrush – Trim the bristles of a pastry brush to make a stiff bristled brush perfect for texturing paste.

Step 4

To cover board – Take 200g of white Saracino top paste and add a small amount of yellow Saracino gel colour along with a tiny amount of green Saracino gel colour. Knead together until the paste is evenly coloured.

Step 5

Roll out the green paste and cover the board. Trim any excess from around the edge with a sharp knife. Take a small piece of baking parchment and screw into a ball. Dab the ball gently across the board to texture the paste.

Step 6

To make the branch – Take 120g of brown modelling paste, roll into a long thin sausage, tapered to a point at one end (approximately 20inches long). Use the veining end of the Dresden tool (Cerart 301) to gently score lines along the length of the paste. Gently curl the tapered end into a spiral.

Step 7

Stick the cake into place on the left side of the board with a small amount of royal icing. Wrap the branch around the base of the cake. Start at the front with the thickest end and continue around until the spiral end overlaps and is front and central to the cake. Stick into place with a small amount of cool boiled water.

Step 8

Door – Take 25g of brown modelling paste, roll into a ball and then flatten gently with the palm of your hand. Rub around the edge with your fingertips to thin the paste slightly. Use the balling tool (Cerart 500) to texture the surface of the door. Apply a small amount of Saracino Brown powder around the edge of the door to shade as shown.

Step 9

Windows – Divide 24g of brown modelling paste equally into three pieces. Roll each piece into a ball, flatten with the palm of your hand and thin the edges with your fingertip as before. Use the veining end of the Dresden tool (Cerart 301) to mark vertical lines and grooves across each piece. Using a sharp knife cut each piece equally in half. Use the small end of the balling tool (Cerart 501) to create a hole in each window shutter as shown. Lastly shade around the edge of each window shutter with brown Saracino dust as before.

Step 10

Apply a small amount of water to the back of the door and each window shutter. Stick the door into place above the spiral of the branch. Stick two windows into place on the front of the cake as shown.

Step 11

Stick the final third window into place on the back of the cake as shown.

Step 12

Apply a small amount of Saracino black gel colour to 32g of white paste to create a light grey colour. Increase the black gel colour added to 25g of white paste to create a medium grey colour, and a further 25g of white paste to create a dark grey colour as shown.

Step 13

Take 20g of each of the light, medium and dark grey pastes. Roll various sizes and shapes of stones and stick around the outside of the door and all three windows to frame as shown.

Step 14

Mix a small amount of Saracino white powder with a couple of drops of water to create a paste. Dip a paintbrush into the paste and wipe off the excess, so that the paintbrush is almost dry. Dab the stones with the paintbrush to transfer a small amount of colour as shown.

Step 15

Moss – Divide the 115g of green modelling paste into two pieces. One 80g and the other 35g. Roll the 80g piece into a sausage tapered at each end, and roughly 5.5 inches long. Roll the 35g piece into the same shape roughly 3.5 inches long. Use the small star tip piping nozzle to gently press in and texture each piece to look like moss as shown.

Step 16

Gently bend each piece into a curve. Stick the largest piece to the top right of the cake, and the smallest piece lower down on the left-hand side of the cake as shown. Smooth the top of the paste level with the cake using your fingertips. Retexture the paste with the star tip if needed once attached.

Step 17

Roof – Roll 250g of light blue modelling paste into a teardrop shape as shown.

Step 18

Use your thumb and fingers to pinch out the paste at the fattest end of the teardrop.

Step 19

Keep pinching and thinning the paste until it is large enough to cover the top of the cake. Pinch around the edge of the roof to thin and smooth the paste to a point.

 

Step 20

Stick the roof into place with a small amount of water. Gently curl over the top of the roof as shown. Use your fingertips to gently pinch and shape around the edge of the roof as shown.

Step 21

Mix 3 drops of blue Saracino gel colour, 1 drop of black Saracino gel colour with a teaspoon of clear alcohol. Use a flat paintbrush to dab the colour unevenly across the surface of the roof as shown.

Step 22

Once the whole roof is painted unevenly (including where the roof is visible underneath) Shade around the edge of the roof with more paint to darken.

Step 23

Paint white highlights in the same way you painted the stones earlier on.

Step 24

Take a small amount of Saracino green powder and using a small flat paintbrush, carefully rub a little dust at a time around the surface of the board, creating an uneven pattern

Step 25

Repeat the process on the board, only this time add a couple of drops of water to the green dust to darken and create a paint.

Step 26

Use the dark green paint to shade each section of moss under the roof.

Step 27

Add white highlights to the grass using the paint from earlier

Step 28

Small house – Roll 60g of rice crispy treats into a rough cylinder shape. Use your thumb and fingers to gently push in and shape the window, (where the fairy will sit later) as shown.

Step 29

Roll out 150g of cream Saracino top paste to a thickness of around 5mm. Carefully lift the paste and cover the rice crispy house. Gather any excess paste underneath and trim off with a sharp knife. It doesn’t need to be perfect or smooth, lumps and bumps will add to the character of the house. Texture the surface in the same way you did for the first house in step 3.

Step 30

Use the side of your hand to gently press the left side of the house and shape to a curve. This will ensure it fits snuggly to the main house.

Step 31

Stick the small house onto the larger house and board with a small amount of water. Shade and colour both houses using a flat paintbrush and a small amount of Saracino brown dust.

Step 32

Roll out 5g of black modelling paste into a circle. Stick into place on the back of the open window on the small house as shown

Step 33

Fairy head – Take 3g of flesh coloured modelling paste, roll into a small ball. Gently press the handle of a paintbrush into the paste to create a shallow groove just above the middle of the face as shown.

Step 34

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to carefully mark the mouth.

Step 35

Rub the smoothing end of the Dresden tool (Cerart 301) under the mouth to shape the bottom lip. Use the small end of the balling tool (Cerart 502) to indent each corner of the mouth as shown.

Step 36

To shape the eyes – First use the largest end of the balling tool (Cerart 501) to indent the paste.

Step 37

Then using the smallest end of the balling tool (Cerart 501) create a smaller indent within the larger one you made previously. Repeat for each eye. TIP: Use a small paintbrush to make lifting and positioning small elements such as the iris and pupil into place easier.

Step 38

Eyes – Roll two tiny balls of white paste and stick them into place using a tiny amount of water. Roll two tiny balls of blue paste, two smaller balls of black paste and two even smaller balls of white paste. Flatten each one gently with your fingertip. Stick them into place on the whites of the eyes, blue first, followed by black and finally the white. Roll a tiny ball of flesh coloured paste for the nose and stick into place as shown.

Step 39

Body – Roll 2g of purple paste into a ball and stick into the open window. Use the large end of the balling tool (Cerart K500) to gently indent the top of the paste ready for the head. Take 1g of purple modelling paste and divide equally in half. Role each piece into a small teardrop and stick into place each side of the body (widest end at the top)

Step 40

Hair – Take 1g of yellow modelling paste, divide equally in half. Roll each piece into a teardrop and flatten with your fingertip. Use the veining end of the Dresden tool (Cerart 301) to gently mark grooves and texture the hair as shown.

Step 41

Stick the head and hair into place as shown. Roll 4 tiny strands of yellow paste for the fringe and stick into place also. Make and stick into place stones around the outside edge of the window with some of the remaining grey paste. (remember to save 9g of light grey paste for later) 

Step 42

Arms – Take 2g of purple modelling paste and divide equally into two. Roll each piece into an elongated teardrop. Use the small balling tool (Cerart K502) to gently indent a hole into the widest end of each arm. Hands – Roll two tiny balls of flesh modelling paste into teardrops. Flatten each gently with your fingertip. Use a sharp knife to cut out the thumb on each hand. Smooth any knife marks with your fingertip. TIP: Remember when cutting the hands to cut thumbs on the opposite sides to ensure you end up with a left and right hand.

Step 43

Attach the arms to the side of the body. Apply a tiny amount of water to the hole at the end of each arm and attach the hands. Curl the hands over gently to ‘hold’ the window frame.

Step 44

Bow – Roll two tiny teardrops of purple modelling paste and one tiny ball. Use the veining end of the Dresden tool (Cerart 301) to mark a grove in each teardrop.

Step 45

Stick two teardrops to the top of the head (pointed ends touching each other) and then stick the tiny ball in the centre to create and finish the bow.

Step 46

Small roof – Roll 70g of purple modelling paste into a teardrop shape and pinch around the base to widen and thin the paste.

Step 47

Continue to pinch and smooth until the paste is big enough to cover the roof.

Step 48

Curl the top of the roof over and stick into place. Shape and thin around the edge of the roof. Decorate the board with any additional stones.

Step 49

Chimney – Roll 5g of light grey modelling paste into a sausage tapered at one end, bend the paste gently into the shape shown. Roll 1g of light grey modelling paste into a teardrop. Pinch and thin the bottom of the paste, like you did for the roof to create the chimney top.

Step 50

Dust the chimney pieces by rubbing a small amount of the Saracino Powder Pearl, sliver lustre, onto each piece with your fingertips.

Step 51

Door fixtures – Take 2g of light grey modelling paste and roll into a long sausage tapered at each end, dust with sliver lustre and curl over each end to create the large S shape. Repeat with 1g of grey modelling paste to create the smaller S shape

Step 52

Stick the chimney onto the roof as shown. Stick the large S to the top of the door and the smaller S as a handle on the right-hand edge of the door as shown.

Step 53

Mix 2 drops of Saracino purple gel colour with a small amount of clear alcohol and paint the smaller roof the same as you did in steps 21 and 22 for the larger roof. Highlight the roof and stones on the board again with white paint as before.

Step 54

Face – Mix one drop of Saracino skin gel colour with two drops of clear alcohol. Use a small paintbrush to paint the nose, bottom lip and cheeks of the fairy.

Step 55

Grass – Take 2g of dark green modelling paste and roll several tiny strands of paste. Group them together and stick randomly across the board as shown.

Step 56

Mushrooms – Use 1g of white modelling paste to create several mushrooms and stick randomly across the board as shown. The stem of each mushroom is made from a teardrop and the top of each mushroom is made from a tiny ball flattened with your fingertip.

Step 57

Finish by covering the edge of the board with a length of green ribbon.

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BING BUNNY TUTORIAL

BING BUNNY TUTORIAL

May 15, 2020 | Modelling

Author: Domy Dobek 

FB: SweetRevolutionsByDomy

Skill level: BEGINNERS

You will need:

  • Black,Orange,Green,White,Yellow, Skin Tone Modelling Paste
  • Kitchen Knife
  • Plastic Craft Knife
  • 16 Gauge Florist Wire
  • Large Ball Tool
  • Small Ball Tool
  • Small Circle Cutters
  • Scalpel or Metal Craft Knife
  • Dusting Brush
  • Brush For Water
  • Baby Wipes

Step 1

Roll a sausage shape out of the orange modelling paste and with your fingers shape the end to form a neck

Step 2

For the legs cut the bottom end centrally with a sharp knife as shown

Step 3

Your body should look like this. Now smooth the sharp cut edges with your fingers to model the shorts

Step 4

For the cheque pattern use your plastic knife and press long vertical lines

Step 5

Now using the same tool make similar lines in the opposite direction

Step 6

Cut two small lengths of your 16g flower wire. Insert one into each leg.

Step 7

For the feet roll 2 small balls of black modelling paste.

Step 8

Using finger pressure form them to feet shape

Step 9

Attach them with some water to the bottom part of the legs

Step 10

Roll 2 cylinder shapes from your green modelling paste

Step 11

Squeeze them gently on both sides with your fingers

Step 12

Attach the arms onto the shoulders. Use a little water as a glue if required.

Step 13

Create some creases on the sleeves with a plastic knife

Step 14

For the head make a large ball out of black modelling paste

Step 15

Using your fingers roll one end narrower to shape the ball into a teardrop.

Step 16

With your large ball tool press the two eye sockets.

Step 17

Roll out two small balls of your white paste. Place a ball into each eye socket and press down with your ball tool to create a circular white area of the eye.

Step 18

Roll out thinly some of your green and black paste. Use small and medium circle cutters to cut out the circles needed for the iris and the pupil. Using a small amount of water fix the circles to create the eyes.

Step 19

Using your scalpel make 2 cuts on the top of the head to create hair.

Step 20

For the mouth attach a small round heart shape using the skin tone modelling paste

Step 21

Make one small vertical line on the top of the heart shape and one curved in the centre to form a smile

Step 22

Roll a small amount of the black paste very thinly. Place into the lines you have made.

Step 23

Use a sharp modelling tool to blend the black to form the mouth. Add 2 tiny white dots to each eye

Step 24

For the ears roll two small balls of black paste. Roll each end of them both gently with your fingers into a pointed shape.

Step 25

Use finger pressure to flatten them.

Step 26

Cut a small piece off the end of each ear to form a flat end. Now to create the detail on the ears. Using your white paste roll two long and two small threads and attach them on the ears in the pattern shown. Finger pressure should make them stick to the ear but if required use a tiny amount of water.

Step 27

Now for the hands roll two small balls from your black paste. Use finger pressure and roll them into teardrop shape.

Step 28

Flatten them with your finger and cut out a small triangle on the side for each thumb.  

Step 29

Using your modelling tool form fingers into the end of each hand.

Step 30

Attach the hands to each arm. Use a little water if required.

Step 31

Using a soft brush and you brown powder colour dust the lines of the trousers.

Step 32

Use your baby wipe clean the excess powder.

Step 33

Now for the button. Roll a small ball out of the yellow paste. Flatten it in the centre with a large ball tool.

Step 34

With your small ball tool make 4 little indents to create the button look.

Step 35

Roll your black paste very thinly for the cotton thread. Cut each to length required and insert into the indents made into the button to create the sewing effect.

Step 36

Attach your button to the body using a small amount of water if required.  
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DREAMING PRINCESS TUTORIAL

DREAMING PRINCESS TUTORIAL

Dec 18, 2019 | Modelling

Author: Domy Dobek 

FB: SweetRevolutionsByDomy

Skill level: BEGINNERS

You will need:

  • 10cm polystyrene egg
  • Dresden Tool
  • Small rolling pin
  • Sharp knife
  • Small sharp scissors
  • Paintbrushes
  • Cool boiled water / edible glue
  • Food safe skewer / flower wire
  • Circle cutter
  • Large cone tool
  • Small rubber brush tool
  • Face mould
  • Saracino modelling paste white
  • Saracino modelling paste skin tone
  • Saracino modelling paste bronze
  • Saracino modelling paste Tiffany
  • Saracino modelling paste black
  • Pink powder colour
  • Red powder colour
  • Gold powder colour

Step 1

Prepare the 10cm polystyrene egg and the tiffany colour Saracino modelling paste

Step 2

Roll out the Tiffany modelling paste to a thickness as shown

Step 3

Cover the egg with the paste. A small amount of water can be used to stick the paste to the egg.

Step 4

Cut the excess paste from around the bottom using the scissors

Step 5

With a plastic knife or Dresden modelling tool create some lines for folds on the dress

Step 6

With a large cone tool enlarge the creases and smooth them out to give more natural look

Step 7

Mix some brown Saracino modelling paste with skin tone paste to get a darker shade for the skin tone.
Roll out two cylinder shapes the same size using white paste for the dress and darker skin tone for the top of the body

Step 8

Using the large circular cutter cut the top off the cylinder shape to form the torso

Step 9

Using your fingers form a neck on the top of the skin coloured cylinder.

Step 10

Using the large circular cutter cut the ‘shoulders’ away from the skin coloured cylinder.

Step 11

Stick the shoulders to the torso. Then stick the upper body to the skirt. Using a rubber brush and cone tool make details.

Step 12

Using the rubber brush tool form the shape of the chest area

Step 13

Using the end of your modelling tool shape detail to the throat area

Step 14

Using your modelling tool form further detail to the neck area

Step 15

Using the skin toned Saracino paste form a head / face using a face mould.

Step 16

Attach the head to the neck. Insert a wooden skewer into the body.

Step 17

Take white modelling paste and roll two balls for the sleeves.

Step 18

Form the two balls into cone shapes as shown.

Step 19

Fix the sleeves to the shoulders. Using a modelling tool or plastic knife form creases around each sleeve.

Step 20

Using a modelling tool or plastic knife form a line around the top of the dress.

Step 21

Using skin tone Saracino paste roll a sausage shape for the arms and hands. Cut the sausage in half as shown to give two arms.

Step 22

Using your finger flatten the pointed end to form a hand.

Step 23

Using a blade or sharp knife cut the thumb.

Step 24

Using finger pressure roll to form the narrower wrist

Step 25

Fix the two arms into the sleeves.

Step 26

Roll out a piece of white paste and using a sharp knife cut out a crown.

Step 27

Using a little water on the edge form the circular crown shape. 

Step 28

Roll out some black paste very thinly and fix to the face for eyebrows and eye lashes.

Step 29

Mix red powder colour with clear alcohol and paint the lips with a small paintbrush

Step 30

Roll out black paste to form the hair

Step 31

Fix the hair to the head using a small amount of water if required. Fix the crown to the top of the head.

Step 32

Using Saracino gold powder mixed with clear alcohol paint the crown gold using a small paintbrush. Using a soft brush and pink dust give colour to the cheeks.

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CHRISTMAS REINDEER

CHRISTMAS REINDEER

Dec 16, 2019 | Modelling

Author: Lynsey Wilton-Eddleston

FB: SUGARWHIZZ

Skill level: BEGINNERS

FROM LYNSEY:

Christmas is just around the corner, to celebrate the launch of our new products Sugarwhizz has created this fun tutorial to show you an alternative way to use or fabulous new range of edible lace and edible diamonds!

Every Christmas cake needs a reindeer!

 

You will need:

  • Balling Tool
  • Dresden Tool
  • Small Rolling pin
  • Sharp Knife
  • Small Sharp scissors
  • Paintbrushes
  • Cool boiled water / edible glue
  • Food safe skewers
  • Small circle cutter
  • 2 x RKT bars
  • Saracino Sweet lace pearl ready to use
  • Saracino edible soft jelly diamonds
  • Saracino Liquid Shiny
  • 392g Brown modelling paste
  • 30g White modelling paste
  • 27g Black modelling paste
  • 5g Red modelling paste
  • 5g Grey modelling paste
  • Saracino Gel colour – Flesh, black, brown, yellow
  • Saracino powder colour – Brown
  • Saracino lustre – Silver and bronze

Step 1

Take two RKT bars and lay them on top of each other in a cross.

Step 2

Fold them around each other and shape into a tear drop shape, gently squeezing the bars together to create a firm body.

Step 3

Roll out 100g of brown modelling paste to around 3 mm in thickness, gently lift the paste and drape across the top of the body.

Step 4

Smooth the paste down the body pressing gently but firmly as you go.

Step 5

Gather the excess paste at the bottom of the body.

Step 6

Fold the paste over to completely cover the bottom. Smooth the paste with your fingertips to blend the joins.

Step 7

Re shape the body if needed.

Step 8

Take 25g of white modelling paste and colour to a golden brown using some Saracino yellow gel colour and a small amount of Saracino brown gel colour. Shape the paste into a tear drop and roll out thinly with a small rolling pin.

Step 9

Apply a small amount of water to the back of the paste and stick into place on the front of the body.

Step 10

Using the veining end of the Dresden tool begin to texture the fur, start at the bottom and work your way up the body in rings.

Step 11

Keep going overlapping each layer until you get to the top of the body.

Step 12

Texture the front fur in the same way.

Step 13

Use a small soft brush to shade the front of the fur with some brown dust.

Step 14

Roll 120g of brown modeling paste into a ball, narrow the top of the head slightly and use your finger to create a small ridge across the front of the face.

Step 15

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark a smile across the face. Use the smoothing end of the Dresden tool to gently indent the corners of the mouth.

Step 16

Using the smoothing end of the Dresden tool, gently smooth across the bottom of the mouth to create a lip.

Step 17

Indent two eye sockets with the large end of the balling tool.

Step 18

Take 2g of white modelling paste, divide into two and roll into balls. Stick the balls into the eye sockets and flatten. Take 2g of black modelling paste roll out thinly and cut out two circles using a small circle cutter, stick the pupils into place on the eyes. Finish the eyes by sticking two small balls of white paste onto each pupil as shown.

Step 19

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool and begin to texture the fur on the front of the face as shown.

Step 20

Texture the fur on the top and back of the head.

Step 21

Take 10g of brown modelling paste, roll into a ball and flatten slightly. Apply a small amount of water to the top of the neck and stick the paste into place. Insert a food safe skewer down through the center of the neck and into the body.

Step 22

Apply a small amount of water to the top of the neck. Gently slide the head down the skewer until it comes to rest on the neck.

Step 23

Take 80g of brown modelling paste, divide equally in two. Roll each piece into an elongated tear drop. Pinch out the edge around the fat end of the teardrop to shape the leg.

Step 24

Stick the legs into place on each side of the body.

Step 25

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to texture the fur on each leg.

Step 26

Take 20g of black modelling paste, divide into 4. Roll each piece into a ball, flatten the ball and shape as shown. Use the veining end of the Dresden tool, mark a groove across the top and down on to the front of the hooves.

Step 27

Use the large end of the balling tool to widen the end of each leg. Apply a small amount of water to the end of the legs and stick the hooves into place.

Step 28

Take 80g of brown modelling paste, divide equally into two and roll each into a sausage shape. Pinch in and narrow the paste to shape the knees as shown.

Step 29

Stick the hooves to the bottom of each leg, stick the legs into place and texture the fur using the Dresden tool as before.

Step 30

Take a packet of Saracino sweet lace pearl, using a pair of small sharp scissors, cut out the section shown. Carefully cut out each of the swirls.

Step 31

Take 5g of grey modelling paste, divide into two and roll each piece into a sausage tapered to a point. Stick the largest swirl to the bottom of the sausage and then stick the small swirl to the top of the sausage as shown (left is the back view; right is the front view) repeat for both antlers.

Step 32

Cut another section of lace and remove the right swirl and then remove the same left swirl.

Step 33

Stick the swirls into place on the back of the antlers as shown. The paste should be sticky enough for the lace to stick to straight away, if not use a small amount of water

Step 34

Dust the grey paste with silver lustre dust to match the antlers.

Step 35

 Stick two small cocktail sticks into the top of the head, gently slide the left antler down into place.

Step 36

Stick the other antler into place and gently bend the tops of the antlers over to shape.

Step 37

Again, using scissors cut out the small right-hand swirls shown and the matching left-hand swirls from the lace.

Step 38

Stick the small swirls to the back of the antlers as shown.

Step 39

Take 2g of brown modelling paste, divide into two. Roll each piece into a teardrop shape. Flatten slightly. Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark a groove in the centre of each ear. Cut off the bottom of each ear with a sharp knife as shown.

Step 40

Stick the ears into place. Roll 3g of black modelling paste into the shape of a nose and stick into place.

Step 41

Roll two small sausages of black paste tapered at both ends and stick into place across the top of each eye. Roll two more slightly bigger sausages of black paste, tapered at both ends and stick into place for the eyebrows.

Step 42

Roll 5g of red modelling paste into a strip and stick into place for the collar as shown. Trim the piece shown from the sweet lace pearl and stick into place as shown.

Step 43

Take 3g of white modelling paste, colour with Saracino flesh gel colour and divide into three pieces. Roll each piece into a ball and dust with Saracino bronze dust. Stick the balls into place on the collar as shown.

Step 44

Choose your favourite colour from Saracino Soft diamonds range. They are vegetarian jelly diamonds.

Step 45

Stick two onto the collar as shown. Stick two together to create a diamond shape and stick into place as shown. The paste should still be tacky enough that the diamonds will stick without the need for glue. If not use a small amount of glue to stick them into place.

Step 46

Finally paint Saracino liquid shiny onto to the nose and eyes to varnish.

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“MATERIKA” PALETTE KNIFE DAFFODIL’S PAINTING

“MATERIKA” PALETTE KNIFE DAFFODIL’S PAINTING

Sep 6, 2019 | Painting, Royal Icing

Author: Claudia Prati

FB: CLAUDIA PRATI TORTE CREATIVE 

Skill level: INTERMEDIATE

You will need:

  • A round cake of 20cm diameter/15cm high covered with 300g Saracino white modelling chocolate
  • A 24cm round cake board covered with 150g of Saracino white modeling chocolate
  • Saracino Dust colors: white, red, brown, green, yellow
  • Saracino gel colors: green
  • 500g Saracino royal icing mix
  • 100 ml Vodka
  • One pointed stainless steel or plastic palette knife
  • 1 flat medium brush
  • 1 flat big brush
  • 2/3 pcs. small piping bags

Step 1

Cover the cake and the cake board with the modelling chocolate.

Step 2

Mix some green, red and white dust color with a few drops of vodka, achieve a “paste” consistency

Step 3

Start painting the cake with red, green and white dabbing the surface of the cake

Step 4

Crumple some film and place it on the cake. Remove the film by dabbing the surface of the cake

Step 5

Paint half of the cake at a time in order to avoid drying of the colour. You should obtain a very “casual” painting

Step 6

Prepare 500g of Saracino royal icing mix. Colour a spoon of royal icing with Saracino yellow dust to obtain a deep yellow colour. Colour a spoon of white royal icing with a pinch of the previous yellow royal icing to obtain a lighter shade.

Step 7

Fill the back of the spatula with the deep yellow royal icing as shown in the picture

Step 8

First petal: Place the palette knife on the cake in the position shown.

Step 9

First press and then go down in a flat motion.

Step 10

Second petal: with the same amount of royal icing on the palette knife put the spatula in the position shown

Step 11

Go on the left with a flat motion as with the first petal

Step 12

Do another petal in the same way under the second one

Step 13

Tidy the edge of the petals with the spatula

Step 14

With a damp brush create some veins inside of the petals

Step 15

Fill the palette knife with a bit more of royal icing than before mixing the two yellows. Proceed with the fourth petal that overlaps the first petal but is more open to the left

Step 16

Tidy the edge with the damp brush

Step 17

Do another petal in the same way, using a mix of the two yellows. The edge of this petal is between the first and the second one.

Step 18

The sixth petal is put between the second and the third petal. Turn the palette knife upside down and press going up reaching the center of the flower

Step 19

Put a small quantity of yellow in the center of the flower going down with the palette knife creating a curved shape

Step 20

Tidy the center of the flower modeling it with a damp brush

Step 21

Create an open flower on the cake. Repeat the first 3 petals of the first flower but going on the right side instead of the left side

Step 22

In the same way do another three petals on the right

Step 23

Put some yellow royal icing in a small piping bag and create an oval shape in the center of the flower

Step 24

Blend the center of this shape with a damp medium brush leaving a thicker edge

Step 25

Put another bold line of royal icing on the right side of the first one leaving an hole in the middle

Step 26

Model and form the edge of this shape with a damp small brush

Step 27

Mix some green gel colour and yellow dust colour with a spoon of royal icing in order to create two different kinds of green, a medium green and a light green

Step 28

Fill just the edge of the pointed palette knife with a small quantity of royal icing

Step 29

Touch the cake just with the edge of the spatula going down from top to bottom. To achieve a thin and long shape

Step 30

Put another long shape in the same way of step 29 under the first one.

Step 31

With a small brush model the two shapes together to create a stem underneath the flower

Step 32

Fill the palette knife with some green (mix the two greens together on the palette knife) and put in on the cake in the position shown with a flat motion that goes from the top to the bottom of the cake to create a leaf.

Step 33

Model this shape with the brush creating a long stem

Step 34

Apply some more of the green royal icing to finish the stem. Tidy with a damp brush.

Step 35

Do another stem in the same way on the first flower and model it with the brush

Step 36

Repeat step 28/30 and create other leaves all around, model the edge of each leaf with the brush

Step 37

Fix the cake to the cake board.

Step 38

Divide 100g of royal icing in 3 parts and colour it with green Saracino gel, Saracino dust brown and dust red. Keep some white royal icing on one side to use later

Step 39

Mix the 3 colours together on the palette knife and paddle the surface on the cake board, ocassionaly mix some white royal icing on the 3 colours

Step 40

Put just a touch of white dust in the palette and fill the container with some drops of vodka. Do the same with some Saracino brown dust colour

Step 41

Add some touches of shadows using the brown, painting with the medium brush the stems from the bottom to the top and the inside of the open flower. Add some touches of light painting with the medium brush some white from the edges of the petals to the center of the flowers.

Step 42

Fix a “burgundy” or brown ribbon around the cake board

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