In this week’s cake decorating Tutorial Tuesday we show you how to create simple edible sugarpaste bows! These are quick to make and perfect for topping cupcakes with. They’re also easily adapted to match lots of events, parties and seasons. Paint them gold and silver for New Year’s or wedding anniversaries, use red or green sugarpaste for Christmas, stick to pastels for Baby Showers or use bright rainbow colours for fun children’s birthday parties. You can even hand paint small dots and floral patterns for bow topped cupcakes fit for afternoon teas.
What you will need…
Sugarpaste (either pre-coloured or coloured yourself using food gel paste colours)
Blade tool (we used the handy blade tool by Tala in this set of modelling tools)
Fondant rolling pin
Icing sugar
Edible Glue
Tylo Powder
Cupcakes
Lustre dust to decorate
Step one: Add a tiny sprinkle of Tylo powder to your sugarpaste to help firm the paste. This makes it dry quicker and firmer.
Step two: Roll out your sugarpaste using your fondant rolling pin. Slice out rectangular pieces using your blade tool like the parts in the image above. The long rectangle is your actual bow piece. The smallest rectangle is the band of your bow. The two medium sized rectangles are the tails of your bow.
Step three: Cut triangular notches out of the bottom of your bow tails.
Step four: Take the longest rectangle and flip over. Paint some edible glue in the middle and gently fold over the ends of the rectangle to the middle. Make sure the loops of the bow stay ‘looped’ or rounded.
Step five: Gently pinch the middle to make the bow shape.
Step six: Take your smallest rectangle and flip it over. Paint edible glue on the back. Place your larger looped bow across so the smallest rectangle can be folded over the pinched centre of the bow.
Step seven: With your piped cupcake fix your bow tails on the top in the middle.
Step eight: Take your large bow section and nestle it on top of the tails and into the buttercream of your cupcake.
Voila! You now have a cupcake finished with a lovely edible bow! You can make these extra fancy by creating sugarpaste cameos or brooches to attach to the centre of your bows, add edible pearls to the buttercream or gild your bows with edible gold or silver leaf!
