You will need:

Edibles:

Equipment:

• one 15cm (6in) x 10cm (4in) deep round cake or dummy
• 25cm (10in) round cake board
• 1.5kg sugarpaste: white
• 250g modelling paste: black (Saracino)
• airbrush colours: black, orange, purple (Kroma)
• edible paint: black

• rolling pin
• sharp knife/scalpel
• craft matt
• paintbrush (fine, I have used 01 here)
• airbrush
• ribbon for the board (I used black here)
• double sided tape

1

Cover dummy and board with white sugarpaste. I stuck the dummy to the board first with a glue gun but for a real cake, you would use buttercream or ganache. As the ribbon is black it can be added at the outset, for any other colour ribbon, leave as a finishing touch.

2

Using your airbrush, paint your cake and board very lightly with orange. Try and make it darker at the top.

3

Using some paper, cut out some mountain like curves and secure to your cake with a little ball of sugarpaste.

4

Using your airbrush, paint along the line where paper meets the cake, making it darker on the bottom and fading out as it goes upwards towards the sky.

5

Roll out black sugarpaste and using the paper as a guide, cut out the mountains in black and stick on overlapping to give an effect of distance. After this spray the cake board black.

6

For the final touch, the trees on the side of the cake are painted on. Using a very thin brush (I used 01) and some edible black paint. Practice on paper first.

7

Once you are happy with how your trees are looking, you can paint directly on the cake. Slowly build them up and scatter them over the hills.