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In The Meadow CakeA Tutorial By Ann Pickard

In the Meadow Cake& Cupcakes

By Ann Pickard

Using:A 15cm (6”) round cake

And 25cm (10”) round cake drumSet the cake to the back of your cake drum.

Cover with green sugarpaste, cut off neatly at the base of the cake. Cover the board with a different shade of green sugarpaste.

1. Cut away a semicircle of icing from the board, refill this hole with a piece of blue icing. 2. Place a small spoonful of clear piping gel onto the pond and spread it out. 3. Make little grey pebbles and arrange them around the edge of the pond.

Covering Your Cake

Cow

Duck

Sheep

on cake

PondAnimal tutorials reference size chart on the opposite page.

Legs: Size C Body: Size B Head: Size D

Ears: 2 x Size G

Nose: Size EThin black

patches:6 x Size H

Body: Size G Head: Size H Beak: Size K

Body: Size B Head: Size D

Beak: 2 x Size G Pipe on Royal Icing

1. Legs: Roll the ball into a sausage 8cm (3”) long, cut the rounded ends off. 2. Cut into 4 equal pieces. 3. Stick a piece of raw spaghetti into each leg, and stick into the cake. 4. Push the body down onto the legs. Add the tail. Stick the head on top of the body using water to secure, add the nose. Stick 2 ears into the holes (see ears page 4 and 5). Mark eyes, add black patches to your cow.

Form the body into a pointy cone shape. The head is a round ball placed on top. Make a hole in the middle of the face and insert a pointy red beak. Add eyes

and place baby ducks on the pond.

Body is an oval. Pipe all over with white royal icing using a No. 42 piping tube. Form the head shape, stick it on the body, add

ears, eyes and 2 dots for nostrils.

This tutorial was printed from Edible Artists Network Magazine Spring 2014 Issue - www.edibleartistsnetwork.com

To help you create perfectly proportioned models Ann has developed her unique Guide To Sizes Chart. Each part of the sugarpaste models has a letter ‘size’ that corresponds to the circles on the chart. Roll the required colour sugarpaste into a smooth ball in the palms of your hands. Measure the ball against the correct circle on the chart.

Paint some strands of raw spaghetti green for grass. Stick into the cake in little groups.

Buy white candy sticks and use as fence posts, push into cake.

Use the smallest Funky Flower cutter and squash on a yellow centre.

Grass

PostsFlower on

CupcakeSheep on cupcake

Layer large Funky Flower cutter shapes for the body – make head same as the

sheep on the main cake.

Duckon cupcake

Body: Size FHead: Size F Beak: Size I

Stick the duck on the cupcake sideways and flatten slightly. Mark the water effect on the duck cupcake with the

edge of a Funky Flower cutter.

Ann Pickard has been decorating cakes commercially for around 30 years. Her sugarcraft models and cakes are instantly recognisable and appeal to experienced cake decorators and beginners alike. Ann is well respected in sugarcraft circles as the author of numerous books, video tutorials and DVDs. She has been commissioned as the sugarcraft advisor to a new children’s cupcake magazine in Europe, to create child friendly cupcake designs.

She is particularly well known for her sugarcraft modelling and wedding cake designs and is always in demand for demonstrations, workshops and events worldwide, teaching her techniques to adults and children.

Her style is quick and commercial with finished results that are professional and polished. It’s so quick and easy to make sugarcraft

models like Ann’s and her style of novelty sugarcraft brings simplicity to cake decorating that is adaptable to cakes and cupcakes for any occasion.

The great thing about Ann’s approach is that you can achieve similar result without expensive equipment; there are no moulds, no cutters and no fuss! Simply using her unique ‘Guide to Sizes’, anybody – no matter what age - can make a model in proportion.

Visit Ann online at www.annpickardsugarcraft.com

This tutorial was printed from Edible Artists Network Magazine Spring 2014 Issue - www.edibleartistsnetwork.com