https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/teddy-bears-picnic-cake • Posted by Ann P.
Once you know how to make the little teddy bears, you can create this cute picnic cake. It's quite a simple design but looks eye-catching. Using very few tools.
Once you know how to make the little teddy bears, you can create this cute picnic cake. It's quite a simple design but looks eye-catching. Using very few tools.
Cover a 20cm (8in) round sponge cake with 900g (2lb) of Lincoln green sugarpaste, on a 25cm (10in) cake drum. Cover the board with a strip of light green sugarpaste 150g (5oz).
Roll out a piece of red sugarpaste and cut quite a thick rectangle approx. 10cm by 7.5cm (4in by 3in).
Use a cocktail stick to mark lines all around the edges of the blanket, impress the lines deeply.
Use a quilting tool to make a pattern across the blanket, then repeat at right angles to complete the effect.
Roll out white flower and modelling paste and cut 4 or 5 plates with a 2.5cm (1in) round cutter
Roll out white flower and modelling paste and cut 5 or 6 flower shapes using a daisy plunger cutter. Roll out a little red sugarpaste, cut the same number of blossom shapes and stick them on top of the white flowers using a little sugar glue. Mark a black dot in the centre.
Place your picnic blanket in the centre of the cake using royal icing to secure in place. Add your teddy bears, plates, sandwiches and flowers.
Cut 2 lengths of ribbon, one wide white strip and a narrow strip of red. Stick the white ribbon around the cake and stick the red ribbon on top.
Half fill a small piping bag with light green royal icing, cut the end with 2 cuts meeting at a point (see diagram below). Squeeze the bag and pipe little spikes of grass.
Cut your silicon paper piping bag at this angle to pipe grass.