This is one of the cakes I made for my nephew's birthday in December, I wanted one with one of his favorite super heroes!
Ingredients:
- A round cake as a base, I have made this without rum
- 1.7 OZ (50 grams) of apricot jam
- 31.7 OZ (900 grams) of icing sugar
- 6 sheets of fish glue
- 6 tablespoons honey + 1 tablespoon
- red dye powder
- dye powder blue
- A black marker pen to write on the cake
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Time: 2 hours
Prepare the cake and let it cool. Filling it with pleasure.
For the sugar paste soften the sheets of gelatin in cold water, then prepare a color at a time.
In mixer put 10.5 OZ (300 grams) of powdered sugar in a small saucepan and heat 2 tablespoons of honey, add two sheets of gelatin softened, not squeeze. Dissolve gently without boiling. Pour the mixture on the sugar and operate the mixer. The sugar will begin to roll into balls and then to conform in a block. Make sure that both elastic and not sticky, if not add more powdered sugar. Take the mixture and knead on a plane, must be type plasticine. Wrap in plastic wrap to prevent drying.
This is the color white for the other colors to repeat the same process, but in the end, when the compound is in the mixer, add the color powder, a little bit of spoon and run again.
The sugar paste is ready in 3 colors.
Brush the cake with jam and then roll out the dough of white sugar so as to obtain a circle with the larger diameter of the cake. Place it over, do it adheres well and then cut the part that exceeds the base.
Separately, on a board or a cutting a sheet of parchment paper over the dough and blue and with a sharp boxcutter, I used ceramic, obtain the shape of the super hero (Fig.1).
Colored ball of white dough with very little red in order to make the pink face, stick it under the template that you cut out. Cut out the whites of the eyes, the A and the star, stick them to the rest of the shape with a little honey.
Drawn with the pen mouth and black eyes.
Brush the center of the cake with a little 'honey and gently transferred the outline, the
Prepare the cake and let it cool. Filling it with pleasure.
For the sugar paste soften the sheets of gelatin in cold water, then prepare a color at a time.
In mixer put 10.5 OZ (300 grams) of powdered sugar in a small saucepan and heat 2 tablespoons of honey, add two sheets of gelatin softened, not squeeze. Dissolve gently without boiling. Pour the mixture on the sugar and operate the mixer. The sugar will begin to roll into balls and then to conform in a block. Make sure that both elastic and not sticky, if not add more powdered sugar. Take the mixture and knead on a plane, must be type plasticine. Wrap in plastic wrap to prevent drying.
This is the color white for the other colors to repeat the same process, but in the end, when the compound is in the mixer, add the color powder, a little bit of spoon and run again.
The sugar paste is ready in 3 colors.
Brush the cake with jam and then roll out the dough of white sugar so as to obtain a circle with the larger diameter of the cake. Place it over, do it adheres well and then cut the part that exceeds the base.
Separately, on a board or a cutting a sheet of parchment paper over the dough and blue and with a sharp boxcutter, I used ceramic, obtain the shape of the super hero (Fig.1).
Colored ball of white dough with very little red in order to make the pink face, stick it under the template that you cut out. Cut out the whites of the eyes, the A and the star, stick them to the rest of the shape with a little honey.
Drawn with the pen mouth and black eyes.
Brush the center of the cake with a little 'honey and gently transferred the outline, the
n cut out the pieces of the other decorations and complete the picture, remembering to set the various parts always with a little honey.
Finish with the alternate colored balls at the base of the cake and is now ready!!
Finish with the alternate colored balls at the base of the cake and is now ready!!
See the recipe in printable PDF
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