FAIRY TOADSTOOL CAKE

 All little girls will love this magical house with sparkling fairies all around 

MATERIALS

• 2 x 1 liter ( 2 pint / 5 cups) bowl-shaped cakes
• 25cm ( 10in ) petal-shaped cake board
• 1.25kg ( 2½lb ) sugarpaste / rolled fondant
• green, pink, yellow, mauve, blue peach & cream food coloring pastes
• icing/confectioners' sugar in a sugar shaker
• 375g ( 12oz / 1 1 / 2 cups ) buttercream
• sugar glue
• tiny star-shaped sweets/candies
• hundreds and thousands/of sprinkles
• edible sparkle powder/petal dust/blossom tint 

EQUIPMENT

• large rolling pin
• sharp knife
• templates
• miniature, small, medium & large circle cutters
• cocktail stick/toothpick
• No. 2 plain piping tube/tip
• silver ribbon
• medium paintbrush

FAIRY TOADSTOOL CAKE METHOD:

Color 315g ( 10oz ) of sugarpaste green. Roll out and cover the cake board, trimming around the edge before putting aside to dry. Trim the crust from each cake and slice the top of one of the cakes flat. Tum this cake over to form the base of the toadstool.

Hollow out the center of the second cake to make the roof. Keep a rounded edge and  I level off where the cake has risen before cutting down a further 2.5cm ( 1in ). Trim the sides so the roof edge is slightly uneven. Turn the cake upside down and trim a ridge around the top to create a sloping roof. Spread a layer of buttercream over both cakes.

Cover the base of the toadstool with 345g ( 1 oz) of white sugar paste, trimming the excess from around the edge. Place on the board. Color 470g ( 15oz ) of sugar paste pink Roll a 60g ( 2oz ) ball and use it to pad the roof. Roll out 375g ( 12oz ) and cover the roof cake, tucking the sugar paste underneath. Using sugar glue, stick the roof on the base.

Roll out the remaining pink sugar paste and cut out the door and windows using the templates  and the miniature circle cutter. Mark a woodgrain effect on the door with a knife. Cut wedges of white sugar paste for the frames. To make the petal shutters, press a tiny ball of sugar paste flat and pinch around the edge to thin and frill. Stick it in place with sugar glue. Thinly roll out and cut white sugar paste circles for the roof.

To make the fairies, split 7g ( ¼ oz ) of sugar paste into five pieces, one slightly larger Colour the largest piece yellow and the others dark pink, mauve, blue, and peach. Color 7g (1/4  oz ) cream. Create a long, tapering teardrop shape for each body. For the arms, roll a thin sausage tapering at the ends with cream sugar paste and stick it on the body Roll tiny cream heads and indent the smiles by pressing in the piping tube at an angle. Mark the eyes with a cocktail stick. For the hair, roll a sausage of yellow tapering in at either end and press flat, then curl the ends. Tie five silver bows and stick to each fairy with sugar glue.

Moisten the cake board with sugar glue, then sprinkle on the stars to make a path. Stick stars to the front of each fairy and use one for a door handle. Sprinkle hundreds and thousands around the cake. Dust with sparkle powder using a medium paintbrush.

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