Sugarcraft Cake Decorating - PME Professional Diploma Course (4)

The last day of our PME Professional Diploma Course in Sugarcraft Cake Decorating, we had more hands on practice decorating cakes with fondant.  The fifth day of our course, we again covered two tier cakes but this time we were able to do it fairly quickly.


Our sugarcraft cake decorating highlight of the day was modeling the bride and groom cake toppers and placing them on the tiered wedding cakes.  As we were involved in modeling the fondant bride and groom which took us several hours, the two tier cake was left plain and simple, without any further sugarcraft decorations which would have made them even more elegant.

Decorating two tier cakes

Adding the details to the fondant decorations

Bride and groom cake toppers

Tiered wedding cakes

More tiered wedding cakes

We were given a free hand to choose the colours of our tiered wedding cakes.  Thus you can see various colours so that we had a feel of the different shades the colours could give.

Some variations of the fondant bride and groom

Some of us were brand new to fondant modeling.  Plus the fact that to make the bride and groom look real, there were many other small details to take note of.  It took us the whole afternoon just to finish off the bride and groom cake toppers and place them on our tiered wedding cakes.

Tiered wedding cakes

Final product of the fondant bride and groom

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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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