How To Decorate Cakes With Santa's Face

At this years Manchester Cake & Bake Show, I demonstrated in the Baking & Decorating Classroom, how to make this fun and festive Santa Face Block!

Follow my below tutorial to brand your own for a fabulous centrepiece for your Christmas celebrations.

I'thou using my 7″ round madeira cake recipe and vanilla buttercream. Both recipes tin can exist found here.

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I recommend using modelling paste to make the face as it's less fragile. It tin as well be made on a smaller scale and used to decorate cupcakes!

The confront and snowflakes can be fabricated ahead of fourth dimension, proceed decorations in a cake box or some other container that the air can become to (non in a sealed box, otherwise they may cook). For more on types of icing, check out my weblog post hither. Ideally, leave your decorations to dry overnight until they are firm earlier using to decorate.

I recommend using actual edible glue equally opposed to water as h2o can brand your shapes soggy. My meridian tip with edible mucilage is less is more! Only apply a small-scale amount.

For this I have used white modelling paste and coloured what I needed using Sugarflair colours Paprika/Mankind. I employ pre-coloured red and black modelling paste.

Equipment tin can exist purchased from Iced Jems.

Equipment

7″ round can
7″ circular sparse cake card
10″ circular drum
1kg white saccharide paste
100g Cerise modelling paste
100g Peach modelling paste
Minor slice of blackness modelling paste
Small bowl of caster sugar
White flower paste
Snowflake plunger cutter
Moustache cutter
Cutting bicycle
Crimpers
Dusting brush
Pinkish edible dust colour
Paintbrush
Edible gum
Large rolling pin
Icing spacers
Smoothers
Purple icing
Christmas ribbon
Double sided tape

For the snowflakes

Roll out flower paste very thinly and use a snowflake plunger cutter. Leave these snowflakes to dry on foam overnight and when dry out, attach with edible glue and by gently sticking the snowflakes into the side of the cake. I have too sprayed mine with shimmer spray but this is upwards to yous.

For the cake

Split and fill up your block with your desired buttercream or ganache and secure your block to the sparse board using buttercream.

Prepare cake past lightly coating with buttercream or ganache.

Earlier rolling out icing, knead until it's a workable consistency. If the icing is viscous or your hands are very warm, sprinkle lightly with cornflour. Lightly dust your shine piece of work surface also to forbid information technology sticking.

Gyre out your sugar paste to a one/iv of an inch thickness. If it helps, y'all can use icing spacers which are perfect for this.

To keep the saccharide paste from sticking, lift and move it around as your roll. Add more than cornflour if needed.

Gently lift icing over rolling pin to motion and lower information technology onto your cake

Shape sugar paste to sides of cake using your hands and then your smoothers. I recommend using a smoother because the force per unit area of your hands may exit impressions on your sugar paste.

Offset in the middle of the cake elevation, gently rub the sugar paste onto the block. First on i side and by a process of gently lifting any creases out and lifting downwardly onto your block, you lot can secure the saccharide paste all the way effectually. If an air chimera appears, use a scribe to gently pop the chimera and smooth the air out.

Use your smoother to marking the sugar paste at the base of the cake and trim the excess using a palette knife or precipitous knife.

Repeat this process to ice the board, sticking the icing down with a little water or piping jelly.

Using a crimper, crimp the edges of your icing, starting at the back of your cake and board. Go around evenly and decisively.

Fix your iced cake to your iced cake drum with a little royal icing.

Your cake is at present ready to decorate!

For the Santa confront

Roll out peach coloured icing to ¼" thick. Cut out a circle using a large circle cutter. This will be Santa'south face. Exit the confront to dry on a slice of foam.

Curlicue out white icing to the same thickness. Cut out the same sized circle as the face then cut a third of that circle out with the same cutter, creating a crescent shape. This will be his beard. Using a little edible mucilage, stick the beard to the bottom one-half of the confront making certain to embrace the bottom ridge of peach icing. Then cutting out a white moustache using a cutter or cut i out freehand using a cutting wheel. Glue this onto the beard.

Roll out carmine icing and cut out the aforementioned sized circumvolve as the face then cut two thirds of that circle out with the same cutter, creating a smaller crescent shape. This volition exist his hat. Stick this to the top of the face using a fiddling edible glue.

Then, using a cutting wheel, cut out an elongated triangle, gluing information technology to the hat, starting in the centre.

And then, for the bobble, roll out a pocket-size ball of white icing, paint thinly in edible mucilage and coil in caster sugar. Glue this at the end of the hat point.

Roll out a thin strip of white icing and mucilage this effectually the base of operations of the hat to create the rim.

To finish the face, whorl a pocket-size ball of peach icing and mucilage just above the moustache to create the nose.

Roll two smaller balls of black icing and mucilage in identify for the eyes.

For the flush cheeks, utilize a big dusting brush and pink edible dust colour. Dab a little colouring onto the cheeks.

When your Santa face has stale, glue this to the centre of your cake using a little edible glue.

End your cake with a ribbon and bow effectually the base of the cake and the rim of the board.

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Merry Christmas and happy baking!

Britt xo

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