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Anemone Hat Cake

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The course will involve making a hat cake covered in textured sugarpaste, with silver floral cut-outs, pink braiding, pink double bows and some colourful anemomes and leaves.

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Some of the equipment you will need

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Overview• The aim is to complete a hat cake.• A cake or covered dummy is required.• I will provide a range of pre-prepared and dried flower centres (although we will make them too).• I have used BLACK as the colour for the hat part of the cake since for me, it looks good as a

background to the strong colours of the anemones. However, you can change this. For example, pale blue, lavender or green can also work.

• Given time constraints we will aim to produce one anemone and two buds in one colour, so choose the colour of your flower - red, blue or lavender.

• Please colour up all paste beforehand to save time.

Requirements• 6” round dummy• 11” or 12” round board• Small paintbrush for glue• White flora in container (I use the very small glass jam jars)• Sugar glue (melted sugarpaste) in container (I use the very small glass jam jars)• Dusting powder in bags (I tend to use icing sugar in linen)• Smoothers• Large and Small rolling pin• JEM anemone cutters, flower veining tool and rice roller• JEM ribbon cutter set 3 (barley twist)• JEM handy holder OR formers OR foam shape or circles of kitchen towel / paper• JEM Roller pad• PME ribbed roller and modelling tools• 180g flower paste (80g red, blue or lavender, 80g light green, 10g off white, 10g black)• 430g Wilton rolled fondant (60g pink, 70g light grey, 300g black)• 1.3k Sugarpaste (150g board, 250g ring at base, 400g dome top, 200g top covering, 300g black for top

covering)• Cutting tool (PME), scapel or fine knife• PME clear, silver and black spray• Silver and pink pearl dust• Paste colours (reds, blues, lavenders, greens, black)• Dusting powders for the flowers (reds, blues, lavenders, greens)• 24g wire (only @ 4 lengths)• Box • Some small plastic bags (just incase)• Small scissors• Paintbrushes• Small amount of semolina with black dust (for centres)• Nimble fingers

Any questions beforehand email gazchappers@btinternet.com

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Gary Chapman has influenced many cake decorators and is a true cake designer with his own very distinct style. Gary was the originator of the modern technique of fabric effects and gave demonstrations and classes all over the UK and the USA to share his skills. He has also published books and magazines and is a contributor to Cake Craft & Decoration Magazine. Gary Chapman first developed an interest in sugarcraft in the early 1990s when he worked for Merehurst, who at the time had built up a worldwide reputation as the leading publisher of cake decorating books. Invigorated by this exciting edible art medium he invented the new technique of fabric effects in sugar, published his own book and gave demonstrations and classes all over the UK and the USA. Later he launched and was Editor of the first ever mass-market cake decorating magazine. He also produced Iced and Easy, a beginners cake book for WH Smith and provided display pieces for exhibitions of edible art called ‘A Taste of Art’. He also became one of the top 10 wedding cake makers in London. More recently, he left London for a quieter life in the Cotswolds but continues to teach and experiment.

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