Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network August 2018 Cake! Magazine | Page 32

Paint Your Swimming Upstream Own Cookie By Lena McKechnie of Savvy Cakes Sydney Step 1 & 2: Cover your cake in fondant and wait until fondant goes hard. (ideally overnight) Print out the design and trace the back of pictures with a pencil. Step 3: Attach picture to cake using masking tape so that the front of the design is facing outwards and the lead pencil tracing is on the cake. TIP - Be mindful of lead pencil marks on hands as they can mark the cake! Step 4: Gently shade over the design, checking that it is being etched on the fondant enough that you can see it to paint over. Once you’ve shaded over the pattern you want to appear on your cake, remove the picture. Your cake is now ready to paint! You will need: • Ganached cake or dummy • White fondant • Soft graphite pencil • Masking tape • Fine paint brush • Edible Art Paint by Sweet Sticks in black, light blue & teal • Cake topper (optional) f www.facebook.com/ SavvyCakesSydney www savvycakes.com.au Step 5: With a fine paint brush and paint (I use Edible Art Paint by Sweet Sticks), paint over the etched design. Paint all fish except for the one swimming upstream. TIP - be mindful of your painting hand! Paint from left to right if you are right handed or right to left if you are left handed, so your painting hand won’t touch your freshly painted area. Step 6: Carefully paint the last fish in your desired colour (I used Edible Art Paint Light Blue and Teal). Wait for it to completely dry before adding the outline. Add a topper if you wish, in a colour to match and VOILA!