Gary Chapman
Cakes
Workshops & Demos
Cosmos Hat Cake
COSMOS HAT CAKE
The course will involve making a hat cake covered in textured sugarpaste, a double sided brim, with gold scroll cut-outs, gold braiding and some colourful cosmos and floral tape leaves.
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The floral tape leaves
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Some of the equipment you will need
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Course Requirements Overview • The aim is to complete a hat cake. • A cake or covered dummy is required. • I will provide a range of pre-prepared and dried flower centres (although we will make them too). • I have used BLUE as the colour for the hat part of the cake. However, you can change this to suit your taste and colour scheme. • Given time constraints we will aim to produce one full cosmos, one small cosmos and two buds in one colour, so choose the colour of your flower. I have used off-white painted in shades of pink. • Please colour up all paste beforehand to save time. • All quantities are estimates only - make sure you bring spare paste. Requirements • 6” round dummy • 11” or 12” round board • Small paintbrush for glue • White flora in container (I use the very small glass jam jars) • Sugar glue (melted sugarpaste) in container (I use the very small glass jam jars) • Dusting powder in bags (I tend to use icing sugar in linen) • Smoothers • Large and Small rolling pin • JEM cosmos cutters • JEM flower veining tool • JEM rice roller • JEM daisy centres • JEM ribbon cutter set 3 (eyelet embroidery) • JEM handy holder OR formers OR foam shape or circles of kitchen towel / paper • JEM Roller pad • JEM scroll cutters (Wedding cake top and sides) • PME basket weave roller and modelling tools • 300g flower paste (160g off-white for the flowers, 30g pale yellow for flower centres, 100g light brown / gold effect for the scrolls and border, 10g light green for calyx) • 300g Wilton rolled fondant (300g dark blue for one side of the brim) • 1.1 k Sugarpaste (150g for the board, 400g for the dome top, 550g light blue for main part of the hat and one side of the brim) • Cutting tool (PME), scapel or fine knife • Gold pearl dust • Paste colours (reds, blues, lavenders, greens, black) • Dusting powders for the flowers (reds, pinks, greens, yellow) • 28g (for the leaves) and 24g (for the flowers) green wire and green floral tape • Box • Some small plastic bags (just incase) • Small scissors • Paintbrushes • Nimble fingers Any questions beforehand email gazchappers@btinternet.com
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Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman has influenced many cake decorators and is a true cake designer with his own very distinct style. Gary was the originator of the modern technique of fabric effects and gave demonstrations and classes all over the UK and the USA to share his skills. He has also published books and magazines and is a contributor to Cake Craft & Decoration Magazine. Gary Chapman first developed an interest in sugarcraft in the early 1990s when he worked for Merehurst, who at the time had built up a worldwide reputation as the leading publisher of cake decorating books. Invigorated by this exciting edible art medium he invented the new technique of fabric effects in sugar, published his own book and gave demonstrations and classes all over the UK and the USA. Later he launched and was Editor of the first ever mass-market cake decorating magazine. He also produced Iced and Easy, a beginners cake book for WH Smith and provided display pieces for exhibitions of edible art called ‘A Taste of Art’. He also became one of the top 10 wedding cake makers in London. More recently, he left London for a quieter life in the Cotswolds but continues to teach and experiment. Gary Chapman Cakes on Facebook Gary Chapman cakes Gary Chapman Jazz Age Club
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Some other display cakes
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