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

[Olwen the Odd]

I want one!  What's it called?  Maybe I can find one here in Maryland.  What
craft shop (she asks hoping it's a chain)?

Do you guys know how many leaves there are on 17 coats of arms?  And every
one a different size :~\
Olwen

>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
>
>
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