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Icing Nowyou need tomake some royal icing to act as glue, to assemble ready for decorating.
For the icing: 2 large free range egg whites
500g icing sugar 3tsp lemon juice 1tsp creamof tartar
1 Using a freestandingmixer with paddle attachment or largemixing bowl and paddle, tip in the icing sugar, creamof tartar, eggwhite and lemon juice and beat for at least fiveminutes.
2 Youmay need to add a little coldwater if themix is too dry and crumbly, but add thewater very slowly.
3 After about 5minutes of beating you should have a
SNOWMAN CUPCAKE DECORATING
Skill level: Concentration needed
This is a bitmore complicated than the biscuit decorations so youwill probably need towork on this together. Beforemaking the snowman youwill need to ice your pre-made cupcakeswith blue icing. These instructions are for the snowman only.
Youwill need: Sugarpaste in the following colours:White, Black,Orange and Blue This can either be bought already coloured or you can use food colouring.
1Make the body into a cone shape.
2 Shape each arminto long thin cones; stick one on each side of the body
3 Squash a blue button shape for the scarf; place on the
thick, verywhitemeringue typemixture that holds its peak.
4 Pour into a piping bag and you are ready to start assembling.
Assembling 1 Pipe icing onto the edges of the gingerbread front,
back and sides to join togetherwith the base and each other. 2When the structure feels stable, use icing to glue the roof in place. Glue the chimney together separately and stick onto the roofwhen it is ready.
Decorating Youwill need the remaining icing aswell as a selection of sweets andmarshmallows. Layla used candy canes and red andwhite cake decorations and other sweets, but you really can usewhatever you like – this is your house, remember!
Layla also used ShreddedWheat for the roof, but again, you can usewhatever you like – just stick it onwith the icing. Happy building!
Thanks to Layla from
www.laylapegadocakes.co.uk for this guide.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
H C F E G
Use the guide above to cut out the following using sugarpaste
Snowman: Body – CWhite Arms – 2 x FWhite Scarf – G Blue Head – EWhite Nose – HOrange
snowman’s neck; push in a piece of rawspaghetti into the top of the body through themiddle of the scarf (leave 1cmabove the scarf to support the head).
4 Add a round ball for head.
5Make a double pointed cone shapewith orange sugarpaste, make a deep hole in the snowman’s face – the end of a clean pencil or paint brush are great for this. Push one end of the carrot nose into the hole
6 Give the snowman some eyes and buttons down the front.
7 Place himon your cupcake which you can decorate however youwant.
FromChristmas Cupcakes, Cards and Crafts by Ann Pickard
www.annpickardsugarcraft.com
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