Halloween Cake with sugar paste

Halloween Cake with sugar paste
A cake with Carnival appearance. Very fitting for the period of Carnival, and year-round birthdays, celebrations and every pleasant occasion. Here is purple - white version, but can be done in any color expresses your. From radicio.com.
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Preparation time: 1 hour 20 minutes | Cooking: 10 minutes | Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Recipe for: 18 portions of about

Nutrition information per 1 portion
Calories: Calories | Fat: g.


Ingredients:
Cake: 1 baked and cooled, 22 from. diameter and cut into 4 horizontal discs(in this cake was used peanut butter cake)
Buttercream or whipped chocolate ganache: 800 - 900 g. (in particular ganache chocolate used, as in cake with peanut butter)
Sugarpaste coating: 1 dose
Sugarpaste modeling: 1 dose
edible glue or water: just for sticking ornamental
Coloring: little, the colors you prefer
Icing sugar: just for opening the glaze
Cornflour: just for opening the glaze
Asimokoufeta: little decoration

Directions:
1. At least 1 day before, divide the sugar paste in modeling 2 or more parties (depending how many colors to use) and paint each piece in your favorite color. The knead well to make the color uniform. Hold each piece tightly in a bag until you use it do not dry.
2. Printing on paper and cut with scissors the pattern of the mask according to the following scheme (or another design of your choice)

3. Openings in sheet thickness 4 mm approximately on bench dusting with powdered cornstarch and the sugar paste modeling. Guided by the pattern and sharp knife, cut 2 masks. Carefully lift off the bench and or put them on a real plastic masks or folded paper towels, to get the right shape. Leave them to dry well (this will take at least 1 day). When the masks dry, to decorate with strips or strings of colored sugar paste if you want asimokoufeta, which stick or edible glue or with little water.

4. Prepare cake and buttercream according to the prescription you chose. Fill and cover the cake. Lay the surface as best you can and put at least half an hour in the fridge before you decorate.
5. Divide the sugar paste coating in 2 parts. The one (the 2/3 the glaze) the purple paint (or another color of your choice) and the other leave white. Open the purple sheet large enough to cover the entire cake. Carefully put on your cake with the Lay hands to cover the cake without making folds. Create excess.
6. Open sheet and white sugar paste and cut lozenges. Glue or water to stick around on the cake. To find how big should be the diamonds, Cut a wax paper strip, as wide as the height of the rhombus so far, as much the perimeter of the cake. Fold the strip, so many times, as many as the diamonds you want. Unfold and thus find the width of each rhombus, measuring between 2 patents.
7. On the cake you put on masks. To the mount to the desired position, Use little sugar paste to the base. Also from white sugar paste cut strips 1 from. about width. The wrap around a skewer and put them on the cake (in 15 - 30 minutes, the sugar paste will dry enough, remove straws). With the tip of a piping bag pastry cut small circles of white and purple sugar paste for confetti. The spreads on the cake.
Good luck and good Halloween!!!!!


Prepared in 2 March 2016 by Luise