Cake-topped tins

Decorated tins are cool as gifts for the people you really want to make something special for. I wanted to make tins that looked like small cakes after seeing some speciality cakes at a food fair.

Small Cake-topped Tins

Materials:
- Small tins
- Red deco sauce/glue paint
- Clay
- Silicon whip
- Clear glaze
- A paint brush for the clear glaze
- some toothpicks

Strawberry cream cake-topped tin

1) Have small round tins ready. Slather on a good coat of red glue paint/deco sauce on the lid for the strawberry jelly/jam top of a strawberry cream cake. Allow it to dry for 24 hours.

2) Apply another coat if the red isn't vivid or dark enough for your liking.

3) Make around 5 strawberries to the scale of your cake from clay and allow them to harden.

4) Use red glue paint/deco sauce to glaze the strawberries for that realistic glossy redness.

5) On your prepared tin, pipe silicon whip around the edge of the lid and make 5 evenly spaced cream swirls.

6) Stick the strawberries onto the cream swirls before they cure. Finish with clear glaze if necessary.