How To Make A Santa Claus Face Cake

At this years Manchester Block & Broil Show, I demonstrated in the Blistering & Decorating Classroom, how to brand this fun and festive Santa Face Cake!

Follow my beneath tutorial to make your ain for a fabulous centrepiece for your Christmas celebrations.

I'one thousand using my 7″ round madeira cake recipe and vanilla buttercream. Both recipes tin exist plant here.

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I recommend using modelling paste to make the face as it's less fragile. It can besides exist fabricated on a smaller scale and used to decorate cupcakes!

The confront and snowflakes can be fabricated ahead of time, go on decorations in a block box or some other container that the air tin go to (not in a sealed box, otherwise they may melt). For more on types of icing, check out my blog post hither. Ideally, leave your decorations to dry overnight until they are firm before using to decorate.

I recommend using actual edible glue equally opposed to water every bit h2o can make your shapes soggy. My top tip with edible glue is less is more than! Only use a small amount.

For this I take used white modelling paste and coloured what I needed using Sugarflair colours Paprika/Flesh. I use pre-coloured reddish and black modelling paste.

Equipment tin exist purchased from Iced Jems.

Equipment

seven″ circular can
7″ round thin block card
10″ circular drum
1kg white sugar paste
100g Reddish modelling paste
100g Peach modelling paste
Small-scale piece of black modelling paste
Small bowl of pulley sugar
White flower paste
Snowflake plunger cutter
Moustache cutter
Cutting wheel
Crimpers
Dusting brush
Pink edible grit colour
Paintbrush
Edible glue
Big rolling pivot
Icing spacers
Smoothers
Royal icing
Christmas ribbon
Double sided tape

For the snowflakes

Curl out flower paste very thinly and utilise a snowflake plunger cutter. Exit these snowflakes to dry out on foam overnight and when dry out, attach with edible gum and past gently sticking the snowflakes into the side of the block. I take also sprayed mine with shimmer spray just this is up to you.

For the block

Dissever and fill up your block with your desired buttercream or ganache and secure your block to the thin board using buttercream.

Gear up cake by lightly coating with buttercream or ganache.

Before rolling out icing, knead until it's a workable consistency. If the icing is mucilaginous or your hands are very warm, sprinkle lightly with cornflour. Lightly grit your smooth piece of work surface also to prevent information technology sticking.

Roll out your sugar paste to a i/4 of an inch thickness. If it helps, you tin use icing spacers which are perfect for this.

To keep the saccharide paste from sticking, lift and motion it effectually equally your scroll. Add more cornflour if needed.

Gently lift icing over rolling pivot to motility and lower it onto your cake

Shape sugar paste to sides of cake using your easily and and so your smoothers. I recommend using a smoother considering the pressure of your hands may leave impressions on your sugar paste.

Starting time in the centre of the cake top, gently rub the sugar paste onto the cake. Start on one side and past a process of gently lifting any creases out and lifting down onto your cake, yous can secure the saccharide paste all the way around. If an air chimera appears, utilize a scribe to gently popular the bubble and smooth the air out.

Use your smoother to marking the carbohydrate paste at the base of operations of the cake and trim the backlog using a palette knife or abrupt pocketknife.

Repeat this process to water ice the board, sticking the icing down with a little h2o or pipage jelly.

Using a crimper, crimp the edges of your icing, starting at the dorsum of your block and lath. Become effectually evenly and decisively.

Fix your iced cake to your iced cake drum with a picayune purple icing.

Your block is now gear up to decorate!

For the Santa face

Roll out peach coloured icing to ¼" thick. Cutting out a circle using a big circle cutter. This will be Santa's face up. Go out the face to dry out on a slice of foam.

Roll out white icing to the same thickness. Cut out the aforementioned sized circumvolve as the face so cut a third of that circumvolve out with the same cutter, creating a crescent shape. This volition be his beard. Using a little edible glue, stick the bristles to the lesser half of the face making sure to cover the lesser ridge of peach icing. Then cut out a white moustache using a cutter or cut one out freehand using a cutting wheel. Glue this onto the beard.

Roll out cerise icing and cut out the same sized circle as the confront and then cut two thirds of that circle out with the same cutter, creating a smaller crescent shape. This volition be his hat. Stick this to the top of the face up using a little edible glue.

Then, using a cutting bike, cut out an elongated triangle, gluing it to the hat, starting in the eye.

So, for the bobble, gyre out a pocket-sized ball of white icing, paint thinly in edible gum and roll in caster sugar. Glue this at the end of the chapeau indicate.

Roll out a sparse strip of white icing and mucilage this effectually the base of the hat to create the rim.

To end the face, gyre a small ball of peach icing and glue just above the moustache to create the nose.

Roll two smaller balls of blackness icing and glue in place for the eyes.

For the flush cheeks, use a large dusting castor and pink edible dust colour. Dab a little colouring onto the cheeks.

When your Santa face has dried, glue this to the middle of your block using a little edible gum.

Terminate your cake with a ribbon and bow effectually the base of operations of the cake and the rim of the board.

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Merry Christmas and happy blistering!

Britt xo

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Santa Face Cake by She Who Bakes