“WITH LOVE” VALENTINE CAKE TUTORIAL Gum Glue Recipe

“WITH LOVE” VALENTINE CAKE TUTORIAL
Supplies
Fondant - White
Gumpaste – Red, Dark Pink, Carmel Brown
Petal Dust – Chocolate Brown
Disco Dust – Ruby Red
Gel Colors - Ivory, Chocolate Brown
Candy Melts
Round Tip #12
Brushes
Rular
X-Acto Knife
Wood Grain Mat
Heart Shape Cutters – 2 sizes
Extruder
Gumglue
Roling Pin
Herb Mincer
Alphabet Letter cutter set
Cookie Sticks
Recipes
Gum Glue Recipe
Ingredients
1/4 cup Hot Water
1/4 tsp Tylose Powder
Directions
Add the hot water the container you are storing gum glue and sprinkle
the Tylose powder onto the water. Do not mix cover the container and l
et it rest over night in the refrigerator. Your Gum Glue will be ready to
you the following day!
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Instructions
Step 1
Cover a 8” high 7” diameter double barrel cake with White Satin Ice fondant.
Step 2
To make the Woodgrain panels, roll out a white fondant to a 1/8” thickness and then
place the woodgrain mat over the fondant and roll it with a rolling pin to get the
woodgrain markings on the fondant.
Step 3
Cut 2” x 8” strips from the rollout fondant. For this cake you would need approx 10
strips/planks.
Step 4
Mix Americolor Ivory with Chocolate Brown Gel Color and add a some water to dilute
the mixture. Using a Fine tip brush, paint the lines on the woodgrain pattern.
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Step 5A
Let the painted lines dry for few minutes.
Step 5B
Using Chocolate petal dust, add some shading on the top and bottom edges of the
woodgrain plank and in random areas of the plank.
Step 6A
Apply some pipping gell on the cake and attach the planks vertically as shown in step 6B.
Step 6B
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Step 7
Roll out a Red gumpaste into a #2 thickness in a pasta machine or to a 1/8” thickness
using a rolling pin and make a smaller and a larger heart shaped cut out. On the larger
heart, using a #12 round tip, cut out a circle on the top right corner of the heart and let
the hearts dry overnight.
Step 8
On the smaller heart, apply some gumglue and sprinkle some Ruby Red disco dust.
Step 9
Roll a Red gumpaste to 1/8” tickness and using the heart shape template that’s provided
cut out a heart and let it dry overnight.
Step 10
Roll a Red gumpaste into a # 4 thickness in the pasta machine or to 1/16” thickness using
a rolling pin. Then, use a herb mincer to cut out 1/4“ wide strips.
Step 11
Take one of the strips and roll 1/2 of it into a tight coil as shown.
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Step 12A
Apply some gumglue to one side of the heart that you made in step 9.
Step 12B
Take the coil that you made in step 11 and place it on one side of the heart as shown
making sure that the beginning of the coil is secured well with gumglue.
Step 12C
Make another coil and attach it to the other half of the heart and trim off the edges.
Step 13A
Make two more coils and attach them into a shape of a smaller heart as shown in step
13A and 13B.
Step 13B
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Step 14
Fill the heart by adding more coils to the heart.
Step 15
Roll out a Dark Pink gumpaste into #4 thickness in a pasta machine or to a 1/16”
thickness using a rolling pin. Then, cut out 1/4“ strips using a herb mincer.
Step 16A
Take the strips and roll them into tight coils as shown and secure the end of the coil by
adding some gumglue.
Step 16B
Make a few more of these coils in different sizes.
Step 16C
Attache the coils to the heart topper on places where there is room and let the topper
dry overnight.
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Step 17A
Roll out the Red gumpaste to 1/16th thickness and by using a alphabet letter cutout, cut
out the letters “Love” and let it dry overnight.
Step 17B
Apply some gumglue to the letters and sprinkle Ruby Red disco dust on it.
Step 18A
To make the heart tag, take the two hearts that was made in step 7 and use candy melts
to attach them together.
Step 18B
The smaller heart needs to be on top of the larger heart as shown.
Step 19
Using candy melts attach a cookie stick to the back of the heart topper that you made in
step 16C and let it dry for an hour.
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Step 20A
To make the String, color the gumpaste in a Carmel color. Using an extruder with the
disc shown make two long strings that is long enough to go around the cake. You will
need to make more of these strings later.
Step 20B
Take the string and twist both ends in the opposite direction to get a string/rope effect.
Step 21A
Follow the above steps to make another string and cut two 4 inch lenghts to make the
loops for the bow. Apply some gumglue to attach the two ends together.
Step 21B
Crumple a tissue and then place the two loops on top to have some movement on the
loops when dried and let it dry overnight.
Step 22A
Using candy melts start to attach the first string to the cake. Place the string 2/3rds of
the way down from the top of the cake making sure it is attached diagonaly around the
cake.
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Step 22B
Before attaching the other end of the string, attache the heart tag to the end of the
string using candy melts.
Step 22C
Attach the other end of the string by making sure to pass it through the hole of the heart
tag.
Step 23
Attach the second string diagonally onto the cake.
Step 24
To make the tails ends of the bow, cut two 2” - 3” length strings and attach them to
where the two ropes crosses each other.
Step 25A
Using candy melts, attach the two loops of the string as shown in Step 25A and 25B.
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Step 25B
Step 26
Use two 3/4” length strings and attach them to the center of the bow to make the knot
of the bow.
Step 27
Attach the letters “Love” to the cake using candy melts.
Step 28
Finally, attach the Heart Topper to the top center of the cake by inserting the cookie
stick into the cake.
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Quilled Heart Topper Template
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