Bake Me I'm Yours...Cupcake Celebration (5 page)

edible gold lustre dust

clear spirit (gin or vodka)

black paste colour

1
Brush the cakes with the syrup or alcohol, or add a thin layer of buttercream or ganache to help the sugarpaste stick to the cupcake.

2
Roll out the white sugarpaste between the spacers, and cut out circles using the cutter.

3
Using a palette knife, lift a paste circle carefully onto each cupcake, easing the fullness in if necessary. Run your finger around the edge of each circle to smooth the sugarpaste and to give a rounded appearance.

4
Separately, thinly roll out the red and black modelling pastes. Cut out hearts and diamonds from the red paste, and clubs and spades from the black using the cutters. Attach to the cakes.

5
For the playing card cakes, emboss rolled out white sugarpaste with the jack of clubs embosser. Using the same circle cutter as before, cut circles from the embossed design. Repeat step 3.

6
Thinly roll out the coloured modelling pastes and emboss each with the card embosser. Cut around the embossed sections using a craft knife and attach to the cakes as desired to create the jack.

7
Emboss some of the jack’s robes with the micro embossers to add more detail, and then paint over the gold paste with lustre dust mixed with clear spirit.

8
Dilute the black paste colour with clear spirit. With a fine paintbrush, allow the colour to run into the embossed areas of the face and the ‘J’.

These pretty little cupcakes are the perfect addition for any celebration. Easy to make yet impressive and elegant, they are sure to bring a touch of class to a special day.

you will need

cupcakes baked in spotty purple paper cases

complementary flavour of syrup, alcohol, buttercream or ganache

sugarpaste: pink

5mm (
³
⁄
₁₆
in) spacers

circle cutter to fit the top of your cupcakes

stencil (DS – Winterthur Hearts)

royal icing

modelling paste:purple and pink

white flowers