Cupcake with chocolate ganache spider web design

Last week, i attended cupcake decorating classes. The teacher taught us simple tricks and design techniques with the use of chocolate ganache.

The toothpick made all the designs possible. From feather, spiderwebs and hearts.

It's super duper easy and fun as well.

All you need is a cupcake, chocolate ganache and some toothpicks.

1. dip your cupcake in the chocolate ganache mixture.

2. With the use of a piping bag, pipe a scroll into your cupcake, you may want to use white ganache in able

for your decoration to be visible. 

3. pipe a scroll onto your cupcake. Point your toothpick at the center of the scroll and drag it down till the edge of the cupcake. Repeat this process.

Note: You made need to do this before the ganache dries out.

Smart Tip: My Decorating teacher always do this trick whenever we use chocolate ganache. Since ganache dries out easily, she usually fill her metal kettle with 2 cups of water and she let's it boil. While the kettle boils in the stove she puts her piping bag *with ganache* on top of it. The warm temperature keeps the ganache wet and ready for decorating. 

Bake and Shake,

Dina

Gum paste Recipe

Sugar Paste icing also know as GUMPASTE is a very sweet edible sugar dough usually made from sugar and glucose. It can be used to cover cakes, mold features and create decorations for cakes and many other uses.

There are commercial gumpaste available on the market, i found one at sweetcraft. The brand name is Satin ice and it costs 520.00 for 500grams.

I on the other hand, tried to make gumpaste inside my kitchen. I used

Ferna's recipe.

While the recipe calls only for 450 grams or 3 cups of powdered sugar. I added a little more than 2 cups because the recipe is to runny.

i let my mixer do the job. AT first, it was a little runny then after a few minutes i was able to get this

It should look like a dough. Once it does, place your mixture in a cling wrap to prevent air from contaminating your gumpaste.

NOTE: never leave your gumpaste in open air it will dry out easily.

TAKE NOTE: EASILY.

Always keep it in an airtight container to prevent it from going down the garbage bin. Once its hard, its going to be useless. So make sure to store it in an airtight container AT ALL TIMES.

There are a lot of gum paste tutorial videos on you tube.

Be creative and most of all Have Fun.

Happy Baking,

Dina