Practicing Sugar Craft

Pretty In Pink

  

Right after I went shopping for some new cake decorating bits, I baked some lemon biscuits using a recipe from BBC GoodFood. The recipe uses lemon curd in between two discs of dough and they tasted delicious! However, they weren't flat enough for me to practice icing, so I baked some without lemon curd in the middle.

I practiced mixing sugar paste and getting different colours together. I really liked the pale vintage colours I managed to mix up, this was easy to do with a large amount of white sugar paste! I used various cutters, but as you can see my favourite cutter was the butterfly one, I think I will buy some flower cutters next! Sugar paste is very easy to work with and I can see why lots of bakers use it, but I also want to practice the harder aspects of cake decorating.

I made up some royal icing using SliverSpoon powder (add water and whisk). I then copied a pattern from a book my mum gave me and pin pricked it onto the sugar paste base. Then I carefully iced on the butterfly onto the biscuit.

I really love how this one turned out! It did take me a while to do and its not perfect, but its a start!













I also practiced making sugar paste roses, this took me a while to achieve! I watched several different videos on YouTube but settled on one which uses a simple method of rolling out a tube of sugar paste, flattening it and then making petals with your finger. You then just roll up the flattened tube and pull out the petals!

Next time I am going to bake some double chocolate chip cookies and practice more icing techniques!

Thanks for reading!