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)
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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!