Well the 2 weeks without cake decorating went very quickly and this week was an exciting hands on evening.
We were about to start to make the elves that will take pride of place on top of our cakes.
Firstly we coloured all of our icing with red, green, blue, yellow and flesh. This was quite theraputic and relaxing and quite funny at times with all the different shades of colours for the faces.
We made small balls in the flesh and placed these using our edible glue onto either dried spaghetti or cocktail sticks. Whilst these were drying slightly we proceeded by making their little red hats, we had to roll out using our fingers some red icing making sure that one end was wider than the other, then using one of our many modelling tools we created a hole in the inside of the icing, to enable the hat to sit nicely on top of the head.
Once done, we had to make 2 small round balls of flesh icing and sculpt these into ears and stick onto the head with the edible glue. Then make an even smaller ball of flesh icing for the nose.
Here are my attempts at 4 elves.
Once finished my elves appeared to have slightly flat heads, so I might attempt to make some elves.
Everyone had fun this evening because our little elves seem to have their very own characters already!
Next week we are continuing make elves and attempting to make collars for our cakes, which might be very interesting as a number of ladies attempted this last year with not much success. So watch this space.
