Cut-Outs: Favourite Technique!

They are relatively new to me, but I have completely fallen in love with making sugarpaste cut-outs. They are fiddly and time consuming, but I find making them really therapeutic, and I think they are brilliant effective on cakes.

I started here with the second tier of this London-themed cake. These very simplistic little guys got me hooked and made me want to try harder:

I didn’t get another opportunity for AGES, but then a client asked for a very specific steam engine to be depicted on a cake for her husband. I didn’t trust my hand painting skills to do it justice, particularly given the perspective, so revisited the cut out method again:

And I echoed the technique with the cricketers on the tier above, which I enjoyed so much I made a little tutorial:

But my biggest challenge came just two weeks ago when I was faced with making a Star Wars cake and an Avengers cake in the same week. Both clients wanted lots of characters on their cake and there was no way I was going to have time to sculpt them all, so the cut-outs were the obvious choice again. They took FOREVER. 16 characters in total.

But I had so much fun I made another little tutorial :)

Thanks for looking/listening :)

Harriet x