Bake Me I'm Yours...Cupcake Celebration (4 page)
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Authors: Lindy Smith
foam pad
daisies (x 2 per cake) and white blossom flowers (x 2 per cake)
leaves
sugar glue
If the paste does not come out of the sugar shaper easily it means that the paste is still too hard. Remove and re-soften.
1
Thinly roll out the pastillage and cut out the happiness characters. Using a palette knife, lift them onto the foam pad to dry.
2
Add a thin layer of buttercream or ganache to the cupcakes.
3
Soften some of the light pink modelling paste and place in the sugar shaper together with the small mesh disc. Squeeze out approximately 8cm (3in) of paste. Place in a curve on top of a cupcake to form the first section of the tassel. Squeeze out more lengths and build up the height.
4
Take a shorter section and wrap around the top of the tassel as the binding. Change the disc in the sugar shaper to the large rope and squeeze out a length. Attach this to the top of the tassel, and coil it around inside the curve to give height to the centre of the cupcake.
5
Insert the pastillage characters into the soft paste of the tassels, securing with sugar glue.
6
Add leaves and flowers, securing with sugar glue.
These card deck-themed cupcakes are guaranteed to be trumps with anyone. They are the ideal cake to make with children for Father’s Day, or perhaps for a grandpa’s birthday.
you will need
cupcakes baked in red foil cases
complementary flavour of syrup, alcohol, buttercream or ganache
sugarpaste: white
5mm (
3
⁄
16
in) spacers
cutters: circle to fit the top of your cupcakes, card suit cutters (LC)
playing card embosser (PC)
modelling paste: black, purple, red and gold
micro embossers (HP)
