Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2014 | Page 33

Step 3:

Start to roll out a piece of
gum paste.

Using your Xacto knife
cut out leaf/feather
type shapes. Cover cut
feathers and work on one
at a time, cover the rest.
If the gum paste dries
Step 2:
too much it makes it hard
Pass through pasta
to get definition in the
machine. Work it from 1 to feathers. This is all pretty
a number 3 on the kitchen organic and I do not use
aid.
any template.

Step 5:

Step 6:

Step 7:

Step 8:

With the dresden tool
score a line in the middle
of the feather shape.

Give the line some curve
in parts, not straight.

For the next step you will
use the thickest side of
the dresden tool.

With the dresden tool
place the flat side down
on the feather and pull the
feather from the middle
out. You will need to
decide which is the top
of the feather and work
all in the same direction,
middle up towards the top
of the feather. Work all the
way around the feather.

Step 1:

Step 4:
For the next step you will
be using the thinnest side
of the dresden tool.