GEOMETRIC BLACK & GOLD WEDDING CAKE TUTORIAL

GEOMETRIC BLACK & GOLD WEDDING CAKE TUTORIAL

Apr 6, 2021 | Cakes, Modelling

Author: DANI BEKYAROVA-DELEV

FB: BYOUTIQUE CAKES

Skill level: INTERMEDIATE

You will need:

INGREDIENTS: 

  • Saracino Black Pasta Top
  • Saracino White Pasta Top
  • Saracino Black Pasta Model
  • Saracino Ready to Mix Royal Icing
  • Saracino Gold Spray Pump-Powder
  • Saracino Wafer Paper – 0.27 mm thick

EQUIPMENT: 

  • 2 square cake dummies – 5”, 7”/ top – 6” deep, bottom – 8” deep / or a square cake of two tiers
  • Cake turn-table
  • Rolling pin with spacers
  • Fondant smoothers
  • Exacto knife
  • Food grade rejuvenator spirit or clear alcohol
  • Ball modelling tool
  • Dresden tool
  • Piping bags
  • Piping metal nozzles – No 2 and No 3
  • PME multi-cutter or any rectangle cutter set
  • Square cutter
  • PME strip cutter No 1
  • Square cake drum
  • Edible glue
  • Black edible gel colour
  • Clean brushes
  • Round sponge brushes
  • Scratch wire brush/ Metal brush
  • Posy flower picks

Step 1

Cover your cakes/dummies using the Black Pasta Top and leave the front side of the top tier uncovered. You can use panelling method to cover the dummies.

TIP 1: Pasta Top is Vegan, Gluten free and has NO hydrogenated fats. It’s very stretchy and can be rolled very thin.

TIP 2: Panelling square cakes is a bit more time-consuming than covering a square cakes in one piece of fondant, but it does result in super sharp and clean edges, so the extra time is worth it.

Step 2

Roll out the fondant to about ¼” (6 mm) thick.

Step 3

Trim the fondant to your cake measurements and try to keep it as square as possible.

Step 4

Take the fondant panel and place it at the front side of the top tier. Use the fondant smoothers around the side and top of the cake. Keep smoothing until you get sharp edges.

Step 5

Turn the cake front side up and start to press your ball tool into the fondant to form the moon crater pattern.

Step 6

Keep forming it until you get the desired effect.

Step 7

Gently press the smoother onto the fondant to form an edge at the end of the pattern.

Step 8

Use Saracino Pump-powder Gold Dust and mix it with a few drops of food grade rejuvenator spirit or clear alcohol.

Step 9

Apply the gold mixture with a flat brush onto the pattern.

Step 10

Cover the whole pattern part and paint it again after the rejuvenator spirit evaporates.

TIP: You can apply a thin layer of piping gel to cover your pattern. Then use the pump-powder and spray over it to get different shades of metallic colour.

Step 11

Put the bottom tier on a cake drum and choose at least two sizes of triangle cutters.

Step 12

Measure your triangle cutter. Use the height of the small triangle and make sure it’s equal to the length of the side of the big triangle.

TIP: Use isosceles triangles for the main part of the design as it has 2 sides of equal lengths and helps you to finish it easier.

Step 13

Roll out a piece of black Pasta Model and another piece of white Pasta Top.

Step 14

Cut some squares of both colours. Use the exacto knife to cut each square from corner to corner to form two equal larger triangles.

Step 15

Leave the shapes aside and let them dry out.

Step 16

Roll out a piece of white Pasta Top for the small triangles.

Step 17

Use the triangle cutter to cut them out. You’ll need at least 8 pieces of each colour.

Step 18

Put them aside and allow to dry out.

Step 19

You’ll need two colours of Royal Icing – black and white. For the black one, use gel colour to achieve black Royal Icing.

Step 20

Prepare the Royal Icing. Follow the instructions on the package.

Step 21

You will need a toothpaste consistency (soft peaks).

Step 22

Put the Royal Icing in two piping bags with metal nozzles on – No 2 and No 3.

Step 23

Pipe a few lines across the dried triangle

Step 24

Apply the sponge brush firmly onto the piped lines and pull it out gently to form the peaks pattern.

Step 25

Leave it aside to dry out and make a few of each size.

TIP: Use black Royal Icing for the black triangles if you want to achieve different shades of the gold colour.

Step 26

Apply the gold mixture onto the peaks pattern.

Step 27

You can use the Pump-powder Gold Spray directly onto the triangles, for the best results.

Step 28

Finish all the pieces you have prepared.

Step 29

My little secret in order to be creative. I make a pyramid from kitchen foil to support the process of creating the fondant pyramids. You can use an alternative object.

Step 30

Put a small triangle on one side of the foil pyramid.

Step 31

Pipe a line of white Royal Icing on the triangle edge.

Step 32

Attach the second triangle to start forming a fondant pyramid.

Step 33

Use the Royal Icing to attach the third part of the fondant pyramid and paint with gold to cover the joints.

Step 34

Once the Royal Icing is dry separate the fondant pyramid from the support.

Step 35

Repeat the process with the rest of the pyramids. You can use black Royal Icing for the black ones.

Step 36

Finish all the pyramids and triangles you’ve prepared. You can paint the edges of the black pyramids in gold.

Step 37

Prepare some uneven sized triangles to fill the gaps between pyramids and the isosceles triangles. You can use a small metal brush to achieve the texture.

Step 38

Starting from the bottom corner attach the pieces to the cake. Brush the back of one piece with edible glue and attach it to the cake.

Step 39

Repeat it with the second triangle of your choice.

Step 40

To attach the pyramid pieces, you can use black Royal Icing.

Step 41

Continue to attach the pieces of your design to the cake.

TIP: You can plan a pattern of your choice that will help you calculate all triangles and pyramid pieces you will need.

Step 42

Remove the excess Royal Icing using a Dresden tool.

Step 43

Roll out some white Saracino Pasta Top and cut out the strips using PME strip cutter No 1.

Step 44

You should cut your strips to the length you require

Step 45

Cut out the angles to form a triangle of the strips.

Step 46

Apply the gold mixture onto the strips and attach them over the black triangle of your choice.

TIP: You can apply a thin layer of piping gel and spray the Pump-powder directly onto the piece if you prefer. Leave them to dry out before using.

Step 47

Your finished bottom tier should look similar to this, depends on your chosen design.

Step 48

Use Royal Icing to secure the top tier.

Step 49

I made some Wafer paper flowers using a Saracino Wafer Paper (0.27 mm thick) and dust/colour them in black. You can use flowers of your choice.

Step 50

For the centre of the pre-made flowers you can use a small piece of black Saracino Pasta Model to create a triangle shape centre and paint it in gold or use piping gel and pump-powder spray method. I’ve used the second option.

Step 51

Arrange the flowers on the cake to finish the design.

TIP: Flower wires should never be inserted directly into a cake. Use a posy flower pick.

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ComicStrip Cakers Collaboration

ComicStrip Cakers Collaboration

Dec 5, 2019 | Collaboration

COMICSTRIP CAKERS COLLABORATION

by Fee Kakes & Kathy Cooper

MARVELOUS CAKERS PRESENTS – COMICSTRIP CAKERS COLLABORATION

Collaboration Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/ComicStripCakers

The Comicstrip Cakers Collaboration came about as an idea for Marvel comic fans within the cake community to pay tribute in celebration of Marvel Comics 80th birthday this year.
It was put together by Fee Kakes (of sCrumbtious Kakes) and Kathy Cooper (of Kathy Cooper A Slice of Art) as part of The Cake Collective (a collective cake group set up by Vicki Du Plessis that encourages cake artists of at all levels to challenge themselves by participating in various collaborations).

The idea was to do our own interpretation of our own favourite Marvel comic characters and to have fun with it.

We were inspired to celebrate Marvel Comics 80th birthday because Fee and a number of other Cake Collective artists are HUGE Marvel comic fans and Kathy is a SUPER Deadpool fan and there was a huge response from the Cake Collective members to take part. It seemed feasible that we could create a brilliant tribute as we initially had 80 plus cake artists wanting to take part. It also followed on from our Cameod Stan Lee collaboration that featured at London’s Cake International on Tour Group competition achieving a Gold award earlier this year.

The Cake Collective already has a number of collaborations that they are currently working on and also developing ideas for future themes. The Cake Collective welcomes all cake artists of all skill levels and currently has 1.6K members from all over the world. If anyone wishes to join the Facebook group they can by going tohttps://www.facebook.com/groups/thecakecollective/

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Cute Christmas Penguin’s

Cute Christmas Penguin’s

Dec 3, 2019 | Modelling, Uncategorized

Author: ANJALI TAMBDE

FB: GLOBAL CAKE TOPPERS

Skill level: BEGINNERS

TIPS:

Tip 1: You can make a snow man and his family using the same tutorial with a few little tweaks like instead of flippers and feet add some twigs made with wires and modelling chocolate

Tip 2: If you have some left over white Saracino that wasn’t used for a while and is a bit hard then how about crushing it in food processor and using it as snow?

You will need:
  • Saracino Fuschia sugar paste mixed with white to form light pink
  • Saracino Azure modelling paste
  • Saracino Light Blue modelling paste
  • Saracino Green modelling paste
  • Saracino Yellow modelling paste
  • Saracino Red modelling paste
  • Saracino Black modelling paste
  • Saracino White modelling paste
  • Rolling pin
  • Cutting wheel
  • Heart shape cutter
  • Dresden tool
  • Scallop tool
  • Shell tool 
  • Knit impression mat

Step 1

Roll pink Saracino modelling paste into a round ball, roughly 2 inches in diameter.

Step 2

Roll a small amount of white modelling paste into a thin sheet

Step 3

Using a metal heart shape cutter cut a heart shape on the bottom of the sheet to have a flat base instead of a pointy one

Step 4

Now give a deeper “V” cut to the heart using the cutter as shown in the picture

Step 5

It should look like the photo above

Step 6

Place this heart on the pink ball

Step 7

Gently roll and blend the edges of the heart well with the pink ball

Step 8

Using a ball tool mark the position of the eyes

Step 9

Make a lovely smile with the PME scallop tool

Step 10

Add tiny black eye balls made with Saracino black modelling paste

Step 11

To make lashes roll a very small amount of black modelling paste and taper it from one end

Step 12

Gently place two lashes on each eye using the pointy end of the dresden tool

Step 13

Add some blush on the cheeks using Saracino pink dust

Step 14

For the beak roll a tiny ball of orange modelling paste

Step 15

Flatten it and pinch from one end to form a beak and then glue it in position like shown in the picture

Step 16

Gently blend it onto the head

Step 17

For the body roll an oval shape ball out of pink modelling paste

Step 18

Roll out some white sugar paste and cut a small circle (roughly 4cm in diameter)

Step 19

Place it on the upper part of the body (oval shape)

Step 20

Blend it well by gently rolling

Step 21

Secure the head onto the body, use a tooth pick if required and some edible glue

Step 22

For the flippers, roll a small pink ball

Step 23

Taper this ball to form a drop shape and flatten

Step 24

Glue the flippers in position as in the picture

Step 25

Position the flippers at this stage before they dry

Step 26

To make penguins feet, take a small bit of orange modelling paste and form a drop shape

Step 27

Flatten the drop shape

Step 28

Using the pointy end of Dresden tool mark the toes on the feet

Step 29

Glue the body onto the feet

Step 30

Repeat the same for the male penguin. Use a slightly darker colour if you would like them to look different.

Step 31

Make tiny eyebrows for both the penguins using black modelling paste

Step 32

Fix the head of the male penguin and glue both of them together in a cuddling position

Step 33

For the scarf – roll light blue modelling paste and use the knit impression mat to get the knitted texture

Step 34

With a cutting wheel cut a long strip

Step 35

At both the ends of the strip make some fringe

Step 36

Wrap the scarf around both the penguins neck

Step 37

With a dresden tool hold it in the centre and gently press

Step 38

To make the hat for our girl penguin roll some yellow modelling paste and texture with the knit mat and start cutting

Step 39

Cut a triangular shape out of it

Step 40

Make a cone and seal the ends using edible glue

Step 41

Roll some white modelling paste with a rolling pin and cut a thin strip for the rim of the hat

Step 42

Texture with the shell tool

Step 43

Glue the rim on the base of the hat

Step 44

Make a tiny pom pom ball out of white modelling paste and glue on top of the hat

Step 45

Glue the hat on the female penguin

Step 46

To make the hat for our male penguin cut a small light green disk

Step 47

Roll a small ball in light green and glue on top of this disk

Step 48

Glue the hat on the male penguin

Step 49

Roll a small thin black string for the string lights

Step 50

Make tiny bulbs as shown in the picture in different colours of sugar paste

Step 51

Glue the bulbs onto the string

Step 52

Let the bulbs dry for some time on the string before you lift them

Step 53

Glue one end of the string on the female penguins hand and the other on the male penguins hand

Step 54

Your cute penguin couple is now ready to chill out on your cake

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Fuchsia Flower Tutorial

Fuchsia Flower Tutorial

Nov 25, 2019 | Flowers

Author: Zlatina Lewis

FB: ZL CAKE BOUTIQUE

Skill level: BEGINNERS

FROM ZLATINA

Fuchsia comes in different varieties and colours.  I’ve made a type which is one of my favourite and grows in my garden.

I’ve made the flower as near to nature as possible, although it is not 100% botanically accurate.

You will need:
  • Saracino pasta bouquet
  • Saracino Food gel colours – Pink,Green
  • Saracino Dusting colours – Pink, Green, White, Purple
  • Fuchsia cutter
  • Rose leaf cutter
  • Rose leaf veiner
  • Medium head stamens – 1 longer; 4 cut into ½
  • ¼ width white flower tape
  • Green flower tape
  • Ball tool
  • 24, 26, 28 gauge wire
  • Rolling pin
  • Board
  • Groove board
  • Dusting brushes
  • Fine scissors

Step 1

To make one blossom, you will need 4 head stamens cut in half and 1 longer one. Add a tiny amount of flower paste to the head of the long stamen.

Step 2

Cut a quarter length of 26 gauge wire and form a hook on the end. You will need the pieces shown in the picture to make each flower.

Step 3

Tape the stamens together first then hook the wire over the tape to secure the stamens and tape together with a ½ width green floristry tape. Paint the stamen heads with purple dust colour, mixed with 1-2 drops of clear alcohol. Set aside and repeat the process making 4-5 blossoms

Step 4

Thinly roll white flower paste and cut a rosette with the fuchsia rosette cutter.

Step 5

Soften the edges of each petal with a ball tool on your foam mat. Press in the middle gently, so the petals curve a little. Put a small amount of edible glue in the middle and fold over in half.

Step 6

Put a spot of glue in the middle, add the taped stamens and wire.

Step 7

Roll the rosette around the wire, as to form a ‘skirt’ around.  Repeat the process as many times as number of blossoms you are making and leave to dry for few hours.

Step 8

Colour a small amount of paste with pink gel colour.

Step 9

Take a small amount of pink paste and form a Mexican hat.

Step 10

Roll out the edges thinner and cut out the fuchsia.

Step 11

Soften each side of the petals with ball tool.

Step 12

With the ball tool roll gently backwards each petal, so it curves and turns upwards.

Step 13

Add small amount of glue to the dry centres and thread the pink petal on top of the white rosette. Tidy up the back of the flower and take off any excess of paste.

Step 14

Take a small ball of green paste and form the calix with a cone tool.

Step 15

Glue the calix back to the blossom and leave to dry.

Step 16

To make the buds of the fuchsia, you need a quarter length of 26 gauge wire with a hook at one end. Take a small ball of pink paste and form a cone, to represent the bud. Dip the hook end of the wire into edible glue, and push into the bud. Turn gently around and twist, to form a strong connection.

Step 17

Mark 3 lines on the bud, where the leaves will be. Add a small calix and leave the buds to dry. You will need to make 5-6 buds.

Step 18

To make the leaves, you will need to colour a small amount of paste with foliage green gel paste.

Step 19

Roll small amount of green paste over the grove board and cut a leaf shape with the rose leaf cutter.

Step 20

Dip the end of a quarter length of 28 gauge wire into edible glue and thread the end into the grove. Pinch the leaf end gently to secure it to the wire.

Step 21

Vein the leaf with the rose leaf veiner and thin the edges with a ball tool. Form a very slightly curve to the wire with your fingers, to add ‘movement’ to the leaf.

Step 22

Repeat the process, to make 6-10 leaves.  Leave to dry.

Step 23

Cover the wires with Nile green tape.

Step 24

Dust the outer side of the blossoms with pink dust. Be careful not to get any dust colour on the white rosette part.

Step 25

Dust the buds with same dust colour, as you add a small amount of green colour at the base of the buds.

Step 26

Dust the leaves with green at the centre and over dust at the base towards the edges with mix of green and very small amount of purple.

Step 27

Now we assemble our fuchsia. Start with a small bud and a few small leaves, taping them on to a 24 gauge wire with ½ width green florist tape.

Step 28

Using a few of the small branches, tape them on to the main wire.

Step 29

As you go along the branch, add on bigger leaves and buds and leave them to droop down, taping them together. Add blossoms in groups of 2-3 and tape them half way down the wire, so they droop down and have a natural look.

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