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today's quick video I'm going to be showing you guys how to easily make a
really super cool trendy isomalt cake topper just like this.
So stay tuned and I hope you guys enjoy this video :)
So the first step to making our isomalt cake topper today is to melt our isomalt.
Now isomalt is basically a type of crystallized sugar, which is used to make
hard candy, and the reason why I've got gloves on is because when you heat up
the isomalt and it turns into a liquid form, it becomes really really hot - so
around 300 degrees - so you really want to make sure you're wearing some sort of
protective gear to protect your hands from the really hot isomalt. So what I'm
going to do first is I'm going to put these isomalt crystals into this pan, I'm going to
heat it up on a medium heat and stir it occasionally until it turns into a
liquid form and starts to bubble
So our isomalt crystals have fully melted now, it's turned into a liquid
form, so now what we're going to do is we're going to take this pan off the heat,
we're gonna let it cool for a couple of minutes until all the air bubbles
disappear and then we're gonna move on to the next step.
Now that our isomalt has cooled down a little bit, I'm gonna go ahead and put a
little bit of colouring into it. Now you can put whatever colour you like, but
today I'm putting a little bit of this peach food colouring and then just gently
stir it in. One thing to keep in mind is that isomalt does set quite quickly so
you do want to work with it relatively fast.
Now once the colour is all nicely mixed in, the next step is to pour our isomalt
onto a silicon sheet or something that's nonstick, and you want to make sure that
the consistency is right here - so you want to make sure it's not too liquidy
that it's just going to kind of pour everywhere and not too thick that you
can't pour it out either, so just at that kind of you know texture where it seems
like it's becoming thicker but it's not too thick yet. So we're going to go ahead
now and pour it onto a silicon sheet.
Now what I'm going to do next is I'm just going to move the silicon sheet
around a little bit, kind of in a circular motion so that it gets spread
out evenly.
Now the next step is to grab anything that you've got that's kind of quite
high and has a flat top and we're going to put the silicon sheet on top of it.
All right now once we've placed it in the middle like that, it's kind of just at a
texture where it's not too liquid that it's all gonna fall down, but it's not
completely solid yet - so gravity is gonna help pull some of the isomalt
down and kind of create this really nice pattern that can then turn into a
beautiful cake topper which you can put on top of your cake. Now the next step is
to peg these kind of outside parts which are sticking out and what that's going
to help do is create a really nice beautiful pattern for our isomalt topper.
All right so now that we've shaped our isomalt, the next step is to just let
it completely cool before we come back and take off the silicon sheet.
So our isomalt is fully cooled now and we're ready to take off our silicon mat.
Now for this step you want to be really careful and really patient because the
isomalt can be quite delicate, so you want to make sure that you don't break
the isomalt. So I'm going to go ahead now and slowly
start removing the silicon mat.
All right and here we are, we're left with a really cool super modern isomalt cake
topper. I hope you guys enjoyed that quick video on how to make a super cool
isomalt cake topper. Please like and subscribe for more videos like this and
thanks again for watching Cakes by MK