Ingredients
Equipment
- Latex
- Paint brush
- Vaseline
- Christmas deers
Instructions
- Coat your deer in Vaseline.
- Paint a thin layer of latex over sides and allow to dry.
- Repeat step 2 over several days until you have a layer about 5mm thick.
- Leave to dry for 12 hours.
- Carefully pull off latex mould from reindeer.
- Dust the inside with icing sugar.
- Thoroughly knead sugar paste.
- Push paste into mould, so head is full of petal paste.
- Push petal paste into body of reindeer so all sides have at least 20mm of petal paste on them.
- Leave to dry for about 30 mins.
- Carefully pull mould away from the icing, starting at the back.
- When you get to the neck begin to carefully cut mould away.
- Put petal paste reindeer to one side.
- Bend wire into antler shape.
- Mould with your fingers some petal paste around wire antlers, leaving a prong at the end.
- Push antlers into top of head.
- Push iced robin into petal paste reindeer's back.
- Brush ivory shimmer dust on reindeer's hooves and antlers.
- Leave to set hard.
I love my Christmas Deers from Camel & Yak, so much so that I couldn't think of anything more perfect to go on top of my Christmas cake this year. So, I decided to make a latex mould from the doe and hand craft the antlers from wire and petal paste. I love how he turned out, even if his neck is a little on the wrinkly side! That came from me being clumsy when I cut the latex mould from around the petal paste. I was worried if I didn't get him out from under the latex he would not dry properly and in my haste his head fell off! I re-attached it back on with a wooden cocktail stick and painted over the join with royal icing.
Thank you to the lovely ladies at Blue Ribbons who gave me advice on how to make my hand-made doe mould.
Have a sweet day!
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