Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2016

Step 4: Alternately, you could drop Christmas sprinkles or confetti, such as white snowflakes, into the flood icing using tweezers to create a fabric design, and using tiny white dots between. Step 6: Step 5: While the skirts are setting, draw some circles on a sheet of paper that are the same size as the faces Repeat with the rest of on the cookies. You can use your projector again or the set, using the same draw around the cookie cutters to help you decide colours and design what size to make the faces. They should be as close so that all the nesting as possible to a perfect circle. Lay some baking dolls match. You can paper over the drawn circles and using the piping also decorate them in consistency Flesh coloured icing, trace around the contrasting colours for circles and flood the centres. Try not to overfill the more variety. circles because they will be easier to paint later if they Allow the cookie to dry are not domed too high. Make excess circles at this thoroughly, using a dehydrator, a fan, or your point so that you have some insurance in case you oven at the coolest setting make mistakes in your painting! Put the faces aside to thoroughly dry in the dehydrator. (less than 40ºC). Step 7: When the skirts are set, take the cookies out and using White piping icing, pipe the top edge of the apron area and flood the apron in White flood consistency icing. You can use another wet-on-wet design to decorate the aprons straight away - candy stripes, or polka dots are very Christmassy, or you can add large holly leaves and berries, or even Christmas trees! It’s Christmas!! Put the cookies in the dehydrator to dry the apron icing. Step 8: Time to paint the faces! Don’t be scared of this part, it’s really easy once you break it down, just make sure your face discs are fully dry by lifting them off the paper and flip them over to check. To hold them in place while you paint, reattach them to the baking paper using a spot of flood icing underneath them.

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