3D Christmas Tree

By CakeableSun, 09/06/2009 - 17:22

Completed Standing up Christmas tree

I know, Christmas is a long way away, but I had some icing, and this seemed like an easy pilot project for 3D Royal Icing construction.

First I drew out the design:

Christmas Tree drawing

I actually drew the tree once, then traced it through twice, making sure that the top tree had a line just paste halfway going down from the top, and the bottom one had a line going up just paste halfway from the bottom. The idea being that you can then slide them together.

Flooding the Christmas tree

As ever with royal icing, pipe the outline, then flood the centre (I was lazy, and piped the filling for the christmas tree bucket rather than mucking about making the red runny and flooding it)

Flooded Christmas tree pieces drying

Now I wait for the icing to dry - 24 hrs for most people, I wait 2 days since I live in such a humid country.

Notice that I've made sure that the slots in the trees are wide enough to accomodate the depth of the icing.

Finished 3D Christmas Tree

And here's the final tree - very, very gently put together. I didn't need any icing to hold the tree up, but if I was putting this on a cake I would definitely ice it in place as it's rather brittle!