Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network August 2017 | Page 17

Step 14:
Step 12:
Wash the brush and use
watered down white to
paint around the centre
to create the appearance
of the glow around the
moon. Paint a line to
define the horizon. Allow
to dry for a few minutes.
Step 13:
Using a new graphite
pencil, lightly sketch the
shape of a tree with bare
branches.
Cut a tiny hole in the
piping bag containing
the brown icing and pipe
over the sketched lines.
The icing should be thick
enough to pipe the thin
branches, but thin enough
to fill in the trunk without
leaving peaks. Allow to
dry for 10 minutes.
Step 15:
With white piping icing,
add snow to the tops of
the tree branches.
Step 16 & 17:
Load the paint palette with brown and black gel pastes. Using a #2 or #3 paintbrush, lightly paint a simple bear
shape with watered down brown colour. If you like, you can draw or trace a bear shape onto cardboard and cut
it out to make a template. Lightly trace around the template with a pencil then paint with the colour wash. Build
up colour gradually, allowing the surface to dry a little between each layer. Add definition with a liner brush and
a mix of brown and a touch of black. Apply shadows under the bear and the tree root with teal. Allow to dry for
a few minutes
Dip a small stippling brush into white food colour (it’s quite liquid and shouldn’t need any water added) and use
your finger to flick the bristles over the cookie to create speckled snowfall. Finally, add some dots in various
sizes with white piping icing.