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Summary: An arts and crafts expert teaches you how to decorate food items, including tips and tricks for Christmas cakes, in this free arts and crafts video.
Brenda, mother of two, has taught Kindergarten and Vacation Bible School. She specializes in arts and crafts.read more
" Hi this is Brenda and we are working on our stenciling of cakes today. Like I said earlier, stenciling is more than stenciling on walls or projects. You can actually stencil on food items such as cakes. Now this cake we have decided to use a Christmas tree. I stenciled them on and I am going to place this over the cake and instead of using confectioner sugar, we are going to use icing. This icing you can even buy in the store in a little container or you can make your own. You can make it by using confectioner sugar, a little milk and a little butter and try to make it of a thin consistency. I am just going to spread it on like this. Spread it all around, getting in the corners of our template that we made of the tree. It gets a little messy so you might want to have some paper towels handy. It doesn’t have to be exactly perfect. Just try to get in all the little corners of your template like this. When you are finished, you just lift it off like this and you have an icing Christmas tree. "
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