[Sca-cooks] Re: The Season Ends Softly!!

[Cindy M. Renfrow]

Hello!  I found a lovely thing at a craft shop next to the modelling clay.
It was a tiny press, shaped like a plunger-style cookie press. It had about
20 interchangeable patterned discs with discs to make tiny squares,
clovers, triangles, rods, millimeter-thick strands of "hair", stars, etc.
Just the thing for fine marzipan work, I should think. I'll see if I can
pick up another at the craft shop (the 1st I gave to my son for his
modelling clay) & bring it to the  conference.

Cindy


>Johnnae llyn Lewis wrote:
>>I have seen "fake" embroidery done on cakes,
>>although what I seem to remember is that they
>>were using gumpaste or sugar paste to achieve
>>the effect...
>
>I did one to imitate blackwork using a small tip and regular black
>icing.  I too would not know if marzipan would work.  I would
>suspect one would need to use icing to do the "embroidery" part.
>
>Although... what if one rolled the marzipan firmly, then sliced it
>very thinly and narrow?  One would need to be a bit daft to do it...
>as well as deft, I suppose.
>
>Alys Katharine