Mini Modelling tutorial 3: Pinwheel cupcakes

With my little tutorial's being a success (and easy to do), I popped out another one to show you how to make super easy (but effective) 'Pinwheel cupcakes'. YOU'RE GONNA NEED  Ready Iced cupcakes Fondant At least 1 gel food colouring Step 1: Colour half of your fondant and cut 2 identical squares of each colour. Step 2: Layer one sheet of colour on top of the other. Step 3: Using a knife, cut a straight line from each corner about 1/2 way towards the center. Step 4: Pull one side of a corner down so that...

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Mini modelling tutorials 2: Geisha cupcakes

One of my most successful posts to date was the mini modelling tutorials that I posted way back when...I guess people like the simplicity of them :) Short and simple, I've just made up a little tutorial board from my 'Geisha girl' cupcake toppers.. lemmie know what you think. ...

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Edible sugar champagne flute tutorial

You know when you see those fab champagne bottle cakes and then you cringe because they've put one of those horrible plastic champagne glasses next to it... well, with this post, I hope to rid the world of plastic glasses. We recently took a class that showed us how to make a (relatively easy) flute... hopefully it helps everyone out there... YOU'RE GONNA NEED... bag of Isomalt (see below) 1 long turnip 1 sharp knife 1 plastic rolling mat Isomalt is a sugar substitute, a type of sugar alcohol, used primarily for its sugar-like...

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