МК лепка "Верхом на помеле"-The making of the "Room on the Broom" Cake

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I started off by covering my cake board, I used a 14" square. I shaped fondant into sausages and balls and stuck to the board with edible glue

Roll out green fondant large enough to cover the whole board

I brushed the board lightly with water so the fondant has something to adhere to

Using your fingers, smooth the fondant over the raised areas

All areas smoothed over.....

Take a sharp knife and trim the excess fondant from the edge of the board

One iced board......

To texture the fondant to look like grass I used a star tip piping nozzle

This is quite time consuming! Work your way all over the board pressing into the fondant

Textured board.....

Close up of the texture....

I then decided to add another 'bump' in the grass - this is where the witch will be positioned. I also added a few more sausages of fondant to other areas. Go over these again to texture with the piping nozzle

Once you are happy with the board, its time to get painting! If you have an airbrush, I guess you could use one here.....I painted on the colour using colouring paste (sugarflair gooseberry) mixed with vodka

Paint all over the board until it looks something like this. Now to start carving the tree trunk.....

I baked an 8" square madeira cake. Madeira is best to use for carving cakes as it is dense and holds its shape well

Remove the top crust and sides from the cake

Cut into four equal sized squares

Stack each square on top of each other

Using a serrated knife, begin to carve from the top of the cake from all four corners. The idea is that the top of the cake is narrower than the base

This is the sort of shape you are looking for

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I then filled each layer with jam and buttercream

Apply a thin layer of buttercream to the cake

Using some of the off cuts of cake, place four pieces around the base of the cake

Apply another layer of buttercream to the base of the cake

Cover the cake with brown fondant. To do this a rolled the fondant and cut into a rectangular shape roughly the same height as the tree and then wrapped around the cake. Smooth into the areas at the base of the trunk carefully and trim away the excess fondant with a sharp knife. It doesn't have to be perfect as adding texture to the trunk will cover any imperfections! Cut a circle of fondant to fit the top of the trunk and smooth the join with your fingers

Use your fingers to go up and down the trunk to make some areas more raised than others

I used a knife to score the fondant and add detail

You can know add branches to the base and top of the cake

I used a series of circle cutters to add detail to the top of the trunk

The finished trunk! Now time to add some detail with blossom tints

I used brown and black blossom tints and a soft brush to add shading to areas of the tree

I paid particular attention to any recesses, so these would stand out more



The finished dusted tree....

To make the base of the fire, I shaped small pieces of grey marbled fondant and secured to the board with edible glue

Shape some black/grey fondant for the cauldren

Add a sausage shape to the top

I used silver florists wire for the handle and then painted with black blossom tint mixed with vodka

To make the witch roll to sausages of light grey fondant. For all my figures/toppers I always strengthen the fondant with tylose powder, about 1/2tsp per 250g fondant

Insert a wooden skewer into each leg for support

Shape the legs to a point at one end for the ankles

Set aside the legs

To make the boots, shape some black fondant into cone shapes, and flatten at the pointy end. Insert the cone tool into each boot to attach the legs

Add a little heel to each boot and set aside to dry

To give a little more width to the top of the legs, I rolled a strip of fondant to wrap around

This doesn't have to be perfect, its just so the witches skirt has something to stick too

When the boots have firmed up secure to a 'bump' in the grass. I attached with royal icing

Insert the legs into the boots, the skewers should go right to the base of the board

Roll out some purple fondant to around 1mm thick and cut a rectangle shape for the skirt. Check around the witches legs for length/width and trim down to size

When you have the right size, cut triangles from the bottom of the skirt

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Wrap around the legs and secure with edible glue

Roll a cone shape from red fondant for the body

Press your thumb into the base (wider end) and use your finger and thumb to thin the edge a little

Attach to the legs

Insert another wooden skewer for the head. To add the detail to the shirt a made an indentation with the back of a knife and then painted with black blossom tint mixed with vodka

Roll two sausages for the arms. Flatten one end of each, and at the other end, use a cone tool to make an indentation for the hands. Shape one arm into a right angle

Attach the 'straight' arm to the body. Leave the other to dry until it holds its shape

For the head roll a cone shape from flesh coloured fondant. Roll one end into a neck shape

Gently roll out a long nose

Pinch out the chin

Use a ball tool to add two eye sockets and paint on a black mouth

Using the black blossom tint/vodkas mix paint around the edge of each each eye

Add two balls of white fondant for the yes and paint on a black pupil. Add a wart to the nose

Attach the head to the body

For the hair, flatten a piece of fondant into this sort of shape

Attach to the head and trim the excess away with a sharp knife

Use a dresden tool or back of a knife to add detail

For the witched plait, I used my sugarcraft gun to create three even sausages of fondant

Plait together and pinch toward the base and score with a knife

Roll out some black fondant for the cape and trim to size

By now the second arm should be dry enough to attach, secure with edible glue. Attach the cape

Secure the plait in place

To make the wand roll some yellow fondant and cut a star, insert a piece of florists wire dipped in edible glue

Form two hands and wrap the fingers of one around the wand

Secure the hands to the arms


For the hat, roll some black fondant, I cut one circle and then a smaller circle from the middle. Smooth down and flatten the cut edges. I didn't photograph the next step, but I placed this part in a shallow flower former and then rolled a long pointy cone for the top part. When the hat holds its shape, attach to the witched head

For the broom handle roll a sausage of brown fondant

I used my sugargraft gun to create thin sausages of fondant for the broom. Attach the handle to the top of the broom part with edible glue. I left the broom to dry and then attached a thin sausage of paste toward the top of the broom part which I painted with silver blossom tint mixed with vodka

I painted on some eyebrows in brown and dusted the cheeks and end of nose/wart with pink blossom tint

For the blue spots on the witches skirt, i painted on using a mix of pale blue blossom tint and vodka

I added piping gel mixed with green colouring paste and edible glitter to the top of the couldren

The toadstools were made by making little cone shapes from white fondant and adding a flattened ball of red fondant to the top. The white spots were painted on using white blossom tint mixed with vodka. I also added some more detail to the broom by dusting with black and brown blossom tints, and added some more little rocks to the board