Santa’s Christmas Car Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

For the cake to be gravity defying, Paul makes up a simple stand from plywood and wooden dowels.

In this lesson Paul carves the cakes into a basic shape for our car then applies the ganache and smooths with the metal scraper once refrigerated.

In this lesson Paul shows you how to cover the car in one go and mold the sugarpaste into shape with a smooth finish.

Before we start with the airbrush we need to add all the features to the car that need to be painted red.

In this lesson Paul paints the car a deep red colour which really begins to bring out the festive feel.

Ho Ho Ho! Our Christmas Car is really coming together now as Paul paints a lovey gold trim and adds the holy.

In this lesson you will learn how to cover a board around the wooden dowel structure.

To finish the car off, Paul cuts a few corners and uses thin cake card to make the wheels not too fancy so that the main focus is the top of the cake.

Time to move on to making our Santa as Paul shows you how to make the body.

Paul shows you how to make the perfect little Santa head and beard!

All that’s left to do now is make the hat and that’s our Santa model complete!

Paul ends by adding some finishing touches including a Christmas tree, presents and a canine friend.

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