The Gingerbread Express Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

In this lesson, Paul takes you through the steps to baking the gingerbread biscuits used for the carriages of our train!

Once we have our gingerbread made, it’s time to put them together using royal icing.

Using cake from the lovely gingerbread recipe (LINK) used in last year’s gingerbread and caramel drip cake, Paul carves out the shape for the front of the train then covers it with ganache.

Once the cakes have been ganache and left in the fridge to firm up, we then move on to covering the cake with sugarpaste. You will need to have a few progel colours handy as we need the sugarpaste to be as close to the colour of the gingerbread as possible.

Now onto the fun part! This is where you can get the whole family involved to decorate the train with all sorts of sweets and candy! You’ll learn how to pipe a royal icing drip for a snow effect and how to make various candy wheels and decorations from sugarpaste.

Paul shows you how to make a collection of different styled wheels for the Gingerbread Express!

Now it’s time to decorate the front of the train, similar to the carriages with lots of different candy and sweets.

Before transferring the train to the board, Paul adds sugarpaste supports to hold the train in place then covers it with a royal icing snow effect.

Now it’s time to transfer the train onto the board and add some final decorations, be careful! 

Paul shares some other ideas to use on your own design.

In this lesson, Paul talks about how to price and sell the Gingerbread Express!