Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2014 | Page 35

Step 19:

Step 17:

Step 18:

Use as many different
colours as you like to
colour your feathers.

Next you will need your
cake, royal icing, piping
bag with small tip and
completed feathers.

Step 21:

Step 22:

Keep building, more
and more feathers, and
layering one on top of
another.

The position of the
feathers as you layer
should be pretty organic
but you need to keep in
mind their direction and
their relationship to one
another. I have placed
mine so they look like they
are blowing in the wind.

Step 23:
Finish your cake in your usual way and voila… Here
is my ‘Feathers in the Wind’ cake! The options are
endless!

Step 20:

Placing some royal icing
behind the feather, only
where the feather will
make contact with the
cake which will be mainly
at the base of the feather,
working from top down
start placing your feathers
on the cake.

As you place feathers on
the cake some may need
a little holding before the
royal dries. Use some
pins (only for dummy) or
tooth picks for real cake to
keep in place and make
sure you take them all out
at the end!