Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2016 | Page 26

You will need:
• One tall cake. This can be whatever size you
choose in height, but you will need to make the
snowman size different. Remember it has to be
in proportion. The cake I used for this was 5”
wide and 12” tall.
• CMC or tylose powder
• Baking paper and pencil
• Sharp knife
• Edible Art Paints

• Rose spirit
• Paint pallet and variety of paint brushes
• Floral wire (18 gauge)
• Brown floral tape
• Piping gel
• White sugar crystals
• 2 styro balls
• Royal icing in piping bag

I know the list seems long – but really most of this stuff you will probably already have.

Step 3:
Next I made the cutouts
for the appliques for the
Step 2:
snowman. The snowman
As this is a tutorial I used is actually all just cutout
a styrofoam dummy for
pieces of flat fondant
Step 1:
my cake. It can easily be
and with the addition of
Lets start with the design. made with cake. Mine is
layering and painting, the
I found a lot of vintage
covered in white fondant
snowman looks 3d when it
in the wrapping method,
is really only 2d.
Christmas cards on
Pinterest and used a
but the cake could also
With the scaled sketch
variety of these to come
be covered in buttercream drawing you made, cut
together for my snowman. if you wish and the same
out each different piece.
I sketched him out and
effect would work with the I cut out the body piece
cake. The beauty of this
as one, the head piece as
once I was happy with
my design, I drew him to
tutorial is that you can do another, the top hat, the
nose and the scarf, all as
scale on my baking paper whatever you want with
with my pencil.
the cake behind it!
separate pieces.

Step 4:
As the cutouts will be
standing vertical against
the cake, you want the
fondant to be as hard as
you can. To help this, add
a good teaspoon of CMC/
tylose into your fondant.