Valentine's Traybake
This Valentine’s Traybake is great for those less experienced in cake decorating, as the design is completely random. It’s also easily personalised to your favourite flavouring, colours, decorations, or sponge cake.
Makes 12 to 16
Baking Ingredients
31 x 19cm vanilla or chocolate sponge traybake
Decorating Ingredients
800 (2 Pots) g Renshaw
Personalise Me! Frosting
250 g Carnation Red Flower and Modelling Paste
Rainbow Dust Progel Red
Rainbow Dust Progel Strawberry
Rainbow Dust Progel Purple
Rainbow Dust Progel Ruby
Rainbow Dust Progel Claret
Rainbow Dust Metallic Paint Dark Gold
Rainbow Dust Lustre Gold Fusion
Rainbow Dust Sparkle Dust Spray 10g – Snow White
Rainbow Dust Glitter Frosty Pink
Food flavouring or extract
Sprinkles
Sweets
Products from us
Instructions
You will need the following equipment:
10.5cm round fluted edge cutter, Icing embosser/cookie stamp, Rolling pin, Icing sugar shaker, Spray pump, 1 paintbrush, Dusting brush, Kitchen paper, Paint palette, 6 x small bowls, 6 x spoons, Piping bags, and an assortment of piping nozzles (such as 2D, 1M, 1A, 104, 199, 32 coupler/nozzle)
Assembling the decoration:
Step 1
Knead 150g Renshaw Flower & Modelling Paste on a clean, dry surface until smooth and pliable. Lightly dust surface with icing sugar and pin out to 2-3mm thick.
Step 2
Emboss chosen message with the icing embosser then cut out the message with the fluted edge cutter. Leave the plaque aside for 24 hours to set.
Step 3
Add flavouring to the Plain Frosting and mix well. Divide the Frosting equally between 6 bowls. Add a small amount of the 5 ProGel colours to the Frosting and mix until blended completely. Leave one bowl uncoloured.
Step 4
Fit the nozzles into the piping bags and fill with the Frosting. Using 2 different style nozzles per colour gives a broader range of textures to the finished cake.
Step 5
Pipe a range of swirls, ropes and bulbs onto the traybake alternating between colours until the surface is completely covered.
Step 6
Sprinkle over Rainbow Dust Glitter, top with sprinkles and then add the sweets of your choice.
Step 7
Shake the Metallic Paint well and decant a small amount into a paint palette. Using a 0 paintbrush, paint the embossed lettering of the plaque. Dab a small amount of Gold Fusion Lustre onto a piece of kitchen paper and brush over the plaque using a dry dusting brush.
Step 8
Place the plaque onto the traybake. Fill a spray pump with Twinkle Dust Snow White and lightly dust all over to finish.