Bake Me I'm Yours...Cupcake Celebration (4 page)

foam pad

daisies (x 2 per cake) and white blossom flowers (x 2 per cake)

leaves

sugar glue

1
Thinly roll out the pastillage and cut out the happiness characters. Using a palette knife, lift them onto the foam pad to dry.

2
Add a thin layer of buttercream or ganache to the cupcakes.

3
Soften some of the light pink modelling paste and place in the sugar shaper together with the small mesh disc. Squeeze out approximately 8cm (3in) of paste. Place in a curve on top of a cupcake to form the first section of the tassel. Squeeze out more lengths and build up the height.

4
Take a shorter section and wrap around the top of the tassel as the binding. Change the disc in the sugar shaper to the large rope and squeeze out a length. Attach this to the top of the tassel, and coil it around inside the curve to give height to the centre of the cupcake.

5
Insert the pastillage characters into the soft paste of the tassels, securing with sugar glue.

6
Add leaves and flowers, securing with sugar glue.

These card deck-themed cupcakes are guaranteed to be trumps with anyone. They are the ideal cake to make with children for Father’s Day, or perhaps for a grandpa’s birthday.

you will need

cupcakes baked in red foil cases

complementary flavour of syrup, alcohol, buttercream or ganache

sugarpaste: white

5mm (
³
⁄
₁₆
in) spacers

cutters: circle to fit the top of your cupcakes, card suit cutters (LC)

playing card embosser (PC)

modelling paste: black, purple, red and gold

micro embossers (HP)