Cake decoration-snow man

Snow man cake Decoration

I love cake decoration, each and every time i decorate a cake, it inspires me to do more and more.
Nearly every social event offers food in the celebration, birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings, but few of the events where food is an important part of the celebration. Its cakes, its becoming a part of tradition, now a days each and every one cut a cake for celebration. Lighting diyas in the beginning and cutting cake in the end has become mandatory now a days

The best way to learn cake decorating is to take a class. While DVD’s, videos, and books are highly popular and informative, taking a class will help you move along faster. You will be able to get immediate feedback from the teacher, and they can see where you might be going wrong and correct you before the project is ruined. My many projects got ruined in the beginning because i was only the teacher and the student. I didn't loose the hope tried tried and tried and here is the result.....

Snow man cake

Step by step tutorial:

Materials:

>Cake of any flavor 2 no. 2 inch each.
>Icing cream: In bowl, add 2 cups icing sugar to ¼ cup butter; beat until creamy. Add 5 table spoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla essence ; beat until smooth. If needed, add a little more sugar for desired consistency.
> Gum paste
> Edible colors
> fork
> scissors
> Drinking straws


Step 1: Take 2 cakes of 2 inch size, place one cake on the tray, level it by cutting the bulge part of the cake, apply cream on it and place the next one, later spread cream using knife, apply half inch cream to cover whole cake.

note: Cake should be in a room temperature before icing it, if its hot cream will melt as it is made out of butter

Step 2: Refrigerate the cake for 5 minutes before giving it a snow texture, for snow effect take a fork tap on the cream gently. As shown in the picture.

Step 3: This is a gum paste you get in bakery raw material stores, it tastes sweet,(its like a clay) it comes only in white color, for coloring it just mix any liquid edible color and mix it well for the even texture.

Step 4: For trees we need scissors, Drinking straw and green gum paste. First role the gum paste to the straw as shown in the picture, next cut it randomly to give a tree effect. fix it on the cake using the extra left over straw.

note: Gum paste dries quickly so wile decorating you need to be quick and fast..

Step 5: For snow man, first we need to do cap, make a cone shape, small ball and a long thin stick as shown in the picture, fix it one by one on the straw( use water to fix it, as gum paste is made of sugar it melts when water is applied and fix it), next for the body of snow man take 2 gum paste balls one big and another small, fix it to the straw as shown in the above picture..

Step 6: For first snow man scarf i took a long strip of gum paste and cut its edges using scissors as shown in picture for thread effect. For second snowman scarf take 3 gum past stick and twist it together for the above picture effect.