Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2016 | Page 26

You will need: • One tall cake. This can be whatever size you choose in height, but you will need to make the snowman size different. Remember it has to be in proportion. The cake I used for this was 5” wide and 12” tall. • CMC or tylose powder • Baking paper and pencil • Sharp knife • Edible Art Paints • Rose spirit • Paint pallet and variety of paint brushes • Floral wire (18 gauge) • Brown floral tape • Piping gel • White sugar crystals • 2 styro balls • Royal icing in piping bag I know the list seems long – but really most of this stuff you will probably already have. Step 3: Next I made the cutouts for the appliques for the Step 2: snowman. The snowman As this is a tutorial I used is actually all just cutout a styrofoam dummy for pieces of flat fondant Step 1: my cake. It can easily be and with the addition of Lets start with the design. made with cake. Mine is layering and painting, the I found a lot of vintage covered in white fondant snowman looks 3d when it in the wrapping method, is really only 2d. Christmas cards on Pinterest and used a but the cake could also With the scaled sketch variety of these to come be covered in buttercream drawing you made, cut together for my snowman. if you wish and the same out each different piece. I sketched him out and effect would work with the I cut out the body piece cake. The beauty of this as one, the head piece as once I was happy with my design, I drew him to tutorial is that you can do another, the top hat, the nose and the scarf, all as scale on my baking paper whatever you want with with my pencil. the cake behind it! separate pieces. Step 4: As the cutouts will be standing vertical against the cake, you want the fondant to be as hard as you can. To help this, add a good teaspoon of CMC/ tylose into your fondant.