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Weekend project - cakes

Patisserie
Catherine Davies shows us some of the great uses she has
discovered for Deluxe Materials Perfect Plastic Putty.

Perfect Plastic Putty

Perfect Plastic Putty is a great product from Deluxe Materials. It’s pure white, water
Top Tip
For precise
soluble, dries quickly in the air and fills the finest of gaps. I have also found that it’s perfect
for making piped icing, buttercream and meringue, as you can colour it easily and add
application such as
texturing agents for different effects.
icing on a cake, you

Making cakes…
can apply Perfect
Plastic Putty using a syringe
and tip. For icing that is to be pure
white, filling the syringe is easy.
Simply squeeze the Putty direct
from the tube into the syringe, then
Step 1 attach the tip.
Perfect Plastic Putty on its own is quite soft and wet when fresh,
flowing freely when extruded through a syringe for the icing. Apply with Perfect Plastic Putty
a gentle touch and remember it will spread slightly before stiffening and is air dried, so if you
drying out, so allow a little extra space when piping your iced design. want to store some
left in a syringe for
Step 2 later application, just
You can apply Perfect Plastic Putty using a finger, as with this leave the tip of the
buttercream I’m spreading over a Fimo carrot cake base. As it’s quite syringe immersed in water.
sticky it’s not necessary to use glue on large surface areas, but use PVA
When you’ve finished using the
if extra adhesion is required especially when decorating with small items.
syringe and tip, flush through and
rinse thoroughly with water to
Step 3
prevent clogging.
Apply Perfect Plastic Putty with a cocktail stick, especially on smaller
surfaces, such as for the buttercream on top of these cupcakes.
Finish with a light coat of matt acrylic varnish to add a little sheen to
Adding colour is
the finished buttercream when it’s hardened.
easy. Add scrapings
of pastel chalk little
Step 4 by little, mixing
To make a meringue nest, swirl the meringue mixture (slightly coloured) thoroughly until
around in a circle with a cocktail stick on a piece of baking/parchment you get your choice
paper, forming a well as the mixture starts to dry. This paper is non-stick of colour. Remember you can mix
so the meringue can be slipped off when dry. different pastel chalks together until
you get your perfect shade.
Step 5
When dry, but before it’s hardened, Perfect Plastic Putty is quite brittle. For As Perfect Plastic
the meringue, I deliberately break it up into several large pieces at this stage. Putty is smooth,
Stick these roughly together with Perfect Plastic Putty (no colouring/additives). to make perfect
This mimics the natural cracking that occurs with meringue and gives the buttercream, I mix
impression of fluffy white meringue spilling out from inside a golden crust. in Micro Balloons to
add texture. I add
Step 6 both Micro Balloons
You can fill any fine cracks in the meringue by extruding Perfect Plastic and Icey Sparkles to make meringue.
Putty (no colouring/additives) from a syringe/tip.
Note that when you add colour and/
Allow to dry and set hard before adding your choice of filling. For mine,
or texture, the Putty immediately
I filled with cream made from coloured Deluxe Materials Making Waves
thickens slightly and can’t then be
and topped with Fimo raspberries. Finish with a light coating of acrylic
extruded through a fine tip.
matt varnish.

26 DHMS October 2013