How to make a fish for your next fishing cake with Sharon Wee
Skill level: Moderate
Time: 2 hours
You will need:
- Pettinice fondant
- Airbrush colours
- Decorators spirit or Vodka for painting
- Paint brush
- Wafer paper
- Piping gel, sugar glue or water
- Rolling pin
- Sharp knife
- Dusts for colouring.
Pettinice always gives me a great solid finish - perfect for airbrushing and painting.
--Sharon Wee, Sharon Wee Creations
Brush piping gel over your fish form.
Roll out your Pettinice fondant.
Lay your shape on bottom half...
...and cover with top half of fondant.
Trim excess.
Rub seams so they disappear.
Emboss scales by using textured piping bag.
Mark gills and eye details.
Lightly brush water on wafer paper fins.
Place floral wires.
Place second wafer paper fin on top.
Airbrush water on your wafer paper fins.
Create texture by pressing damp wafer fins between leaf embosser.
Be adventurous and use any of your flower embossers.
Leave to dry on baking paper.
Use your cake decorators spirit for a diluted shade for the first airbrush coat.
Add yellow airbrush paint.
Add green airbrush paint.
Airbrush first coat along top and bottom.
Pettinice always gives me a great solid finish - perfect for airbrushing and painting.
--Sharon Wee, Sharon Wee Creations
Now, add and spray more green.
Final airbrush coat will be mixture of red and yellow for the lower part of the fish.
Airbrush yellow on the wafer paper fins.
Airbrush a yellow/red mix along the fin bottoms.
Brush edible green dust on the bottom of the fins.
Brush green dust on the top and eyes.
Brush white and black details on the fish.
Brush black on the fin bottoms.
Trim fin floral wires if needed.
You may need poke pilot holes with wire as a guide.
Begin inserting all the fins.
Secure the rest of the fins.
Brush two rows of white dust along your fish.
Brush Edible paint by Sweet sticks for the dot details.
Add fondant for the eye.
Paint inner pupil.
Final coat of edible glaze.
Sharon Wee is a Pettinice Ambassador based in Sydney, Australia.
Sharon's style has been described as clean, fun, cute and whimsical. She spent many years focusing on wedding cakes and it was only in the last couple of years that she decided to start teaching. Through teaching she discovered she loved getting to know students from all different backgrounds and watching them learn and achieve projects they never thought they could. The experiences are always fun and rewarding. Today, she focuses mainly on teaching locally, nationally, and internationally.
You can find Sharon on Facebook and Instagram.
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