The second card of amazing & wonderful things

Elevate your cakes to new heights using these invaluable techniques/ recipes.  Almost every cake you make will benefit from one or more of these.

• Chocolate soil - versatile and delicious, you can use chocolate soil in dessert, chocolates, as an embellishment - such as to decorate macarons or cupcakes, but it is also perfect for creating soil in garden themed cakes or as gravel.  The white version can be used as sand for beach-themed cakes.
• Create realistic colour and sheen for drinks/ food including white wine, red wine, champagne, tea, coffee, gravy, strawberry sauce, raspberry jam, strawberry jam and honey
• Tree top - felled edge Step by step how to create a realistic effect in both sugarpaste (fondant) and buttercream
• Incredibly realistic bark effects (4 options)

1. A textured, marbled sugarpaste (fondant) for covering cakes or for cupcake toppers
2. A realistic, peeled bark effect especially suited for silver birch
3. Chocolate bark - efective and yummy!
4. Piped chocolate buttercream

Everything is explained step by step with lots of colour pictures.  Be inspired!