Sugarcraft Cake Decorating - PME Professional Diploma Course (3)

Preparing the rocking horse

Cut the rocking horse according to the picture above.  Glue the two headless base to either side of the head as in the picture below and place on a cardboard to harden.  This needs to be made with either gumpaste or if using sugarpaste, do mix it with gum powder so that it can harden and stand well.

Leave the rocking horse to dry

Learning the art of marbling fondant.  Start by adding a few colours to the sugarpaste.

Adding colours to the sugarpaste

Knead the sugarpaste

Check out the various colours

Roll out the sugarpaste

Should you happen to put too much colours that they start to run and smudge, place some icing sugar on the affected area before rolling.

If you are going to cover the cake board as well, roll out the sugarpaste till it is big enough to cover the cake board, then gently bring over the cake and smoothen accordingly with the fondant smoother.

Cover the cake and smoothen accordingly

Pinch the sides to make some designs.

As for the lacy designs for the sides of the cake, follow the pictures below:-

Cutting out design for the 'lace'

Use eyelet cutter for the design

You can frill the edges a little if desired.

Use water to attach on the cake sides

For the top layer of the lace:-

Using a contrasting colour for the top

A design for the four corners to look like a handkerchief

After attaching the sides and corners

Close up look at the sugarpaste decoration

Using royal icing to add the details

Finished product

After piping of the royal icing and adding the basic sugarpaste flowers

End result

Having mastered the art of fondant cake decoration, it is simple to come up with a design as in the above.  And it is great fun putting in your creativity to work as well...  and listen to the oooohs & aaaaahs of your friends when they see your work of art!




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Sugarcraft Cake Decorating - PME Professional Diploma Course (2)

It was a fun-filled 5 full days when I took up the PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarcraft Cake Decorating. Once you master it, it is not that difficult as things always become easier with practice.

Here are more of our masterpieces as we went through the full course learning the intricacies of sugarpaste and fondant cake decor. Really love the beautiful results of the sugarcraft decorations. Let your imagination run wild!

For the swags

Upon attaching to the cake

Note the strip around the base of the cake.  You can use different embossers to make the cake more interesting.

Cake fully decorated with fondant cake decor

For Day 3 of the PME Professional Course in Sugarpaste, we learned to work with two tier cakes.  The top was a 6" dummy whereas the bottom was a real 9" fruit cake.  It is different working with a real cake versus a dummy cake.

My masterpiece for Day 3 of the PME Professional Course in Sugarpaste

Another cake with a different colour theme

As we were given a free choice of colours, it was creativity at work.

Check out Sugarcraft Cake Decorating - PME Professional Diploma Course for more of what we did on Days 1 & 2.

Look out for Sugarcraft Cake Decorating - PME Professional Diploma Course (3).



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Sugarcraft Cake Decorating - PME Professional Diploma Course

It has been almost a year since I became interested in sugarcraft cake decorating. Took up the PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarpaste flowers late last year and have been waiting for the PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarpaste ever since.

Finally managed to get the dates which suits me.  And here I am.

Here are some of the pieces that we worked on...

Day 1PME Professional Diploma Course

Day 1:-  We learned to cover a dummy cake as well as the cake board with sugarpaste, also known as fondant.  As you can see from the picture above, we also learned some crimping effects as well as creating inlays and outlays.  And not forgetting the 2 types of ribbon roses, sugarpaste flowers.

Day 2 PME Professional Diploma Course

Day 2 - We covered a real pound cake with sugarpaste and created the frills, bows, hearts as well as the little teddy bear.

Learning to make frills

Bows

Check out Sugarcraft Cake Decorating - PME Professional Diploma Course (2) for more on what is covered in the PME Diploma Course for Sugarpaste

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