Tutorial: Patchwork Cutters "Butterflies"
One of the Patchwork cutters that I, personally, my favorite is the butterfly.
When I first saw these as pretty and delicate butterflies on a cake I was delighted. I do not remember who it was this cake but I looked for the cutter on the Internet.
come from England, and have been designed and made by an English designer, Marion Frost. In England are widely used to decorate cakes. In Holland (where I learned all about the cakes when I lived there ), mostly worked with the technical puzzle 2D cutting different parts of an image on fondant. In England this technique is not used for anything, but patchwork cutters . And frankly, I'm not surprised, since there are many pages with different cutters Patchwork in the catalog of Marion Frost ;-).
With patchwork cutters can create 2D effect, since they are designed so that you can cut to different parts of one figure or scene several times, and stick them on top of each other to create the desired relief. But they can also be used as a texturizer to mark the figures on the fondant and create fun effects.
These cutters are designed for use with Mexican pasta, the recipe for this pasta can be found here . The dough is cut and dried Mexican, this happens pretty quickly.
Then you can give colored powder and accented with glitter (or just shiny, it is also very nice) or you can paint the figure a bit diluted dye in vodka or rum (alcohol transparent high graduation) or alcohol at stores that sell cake specially for this purpose.
Both techniques give a different result, I have seen patchwork cutters precious baby, finished with dry brightness, but also a fairy painted with powder and alcohol that were great.
In this mini-PAP we will give you shiny color, dry, butterflies patchwork but could be painted with glitter. Dilute a little twinkle in alcohol and paint piece by piece. Below you can see a cake with painted butterflies and explaining how.
need:
Mexican Pasta
Crisco or margarine
butterflies patchwork cutters
fondant roller
a piece of cardboard, folded in the form of M to make the butterflies dry
knife (I use here the plastic FMM)
flat brush
1 . Spread with a little vegetable shortening (Crisco or margarine) work surface (eg here use a plastic board for cutting vegetables Ikea) and extends the Mexican pasta until very fine.
2. Spread also the cutter with a little vegetable shortening and put it on the Mexican pasta. Click either on the edges and carefully on the inside to be well marked relief cutter (in this case, the butterfly wings) but without cutting.
3. Remove the pasta from around the butterfly and put the butterfly on the cardboard in the form of M to let it dry. If the butterfly (or shape of the cutter that you used) remains 'frayed' is because the pasta has not stretched thin enough.
4. Let dry butterflies or figures it, the timing depends on the size figure and the climate (humidity) and can vary from a couple of hours a day. Then you can give with the powder, glitter or paint.
5. In these photos I used dry shiny and have also accentuated the bright edge, apply a little edible glue to the edge with a brush and glitter sprinkled on top. The glare you see here are the edible Sugarflair but any other brand (Rainbow Dust has a lot of very pretty colors) is good for these decorations just not usually eat, you can use the glitter (not toxic) that will give an even more spectacular.
In cake can see the result with painted butterflies. I used pairs of colors that combine well, such as green and blue or red and yellow, but of course you can combine the colors you want, is a matter of taste and keep trying!
Pinta first part, let it dry (while you continue with other butterflies) and when dry, apply another color. This will prevent the colors that are intermingled. Also here you can apply, if you want a bright rim ;-)
Hope you like!
;-) As always, I wish you a happy day full of magic :-)
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