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Covcr tli o roof w Uh blua sugarpaste using thc rolling pin to help positlon It.

Use this step-by-step guide to model Twcety's hond. Crc.itc thc cheeks separatoly and smooth tho join elosed.

5 Stick aii the joins elosed with sugar glue. Scratch wavy mes o-/er the surface to suggest v/ood gram. imcgrating the join Imes. Using both circle cutters. cut out two circular hofes at the front and remove the sugarpaste

5Colour 3l5g flOoz) of the sugarpaste dusky blue usmg biue with a touch of chestnut brown food colourmg pastÄ™ Thmly roli out 7g (7«oz) of this and cut a circle to fisi the doorway, then roi! out the rest and cut an oblong slightly iarger than the roof. Lift it by rolling haif back over the rolling pin and then cover the top of the cake. Use a cake smoother to nealen the edges.

7 To make the perch. roli a sausage usmg just over 7g {Y.oz) of the cream sugarpaste and iexture it as before. Press it fiat at either end. Moisten around the edge of the smali cut-out circle on the front of the birdhouse then slot the perch in. using a piece of foam sponge to support it untt dry.

8Usma 30g (1oz) of the cream sugarpaste. cut strips for the fasoa boards at the front and back of the birdhouse. mÅ‚triÅ„g the join at the top. Thickly roli cut and cut a strip for the bottom part of the finial at the front. Press m either side at the base to narrow it slightly and then texture as before.

9 Thickly roiÅ‚ out the remammg cream sugarpaste and cut stnps to edge around the base of the cake. Mark a wocd grain effect on thom. integraling the join lines to Å‚vde them Tnm around the base, cuttmg m at an iriwards angle and keeping a Sharp edge ak>ng the top.

MAKING TWEETY

Colour 60g (2oz) of the sugarpaste yellow Put aside a pea-sized amount then make Tweety's head (see left). blencing the joins of his cheeks into the surface Stroke the bal! or bonÄ™ tooi over the eye area to crcate the sockets.

Colour a Kitle sugarpaste bÅ‚ack. Wuh white and siny amcunts of biue and back. make Tweetys eyes. Model tmy oval shapes and press them until they are as fiat as possible Dust them with icmg (ccnfectioner's) sugar as you work.

Colour another minutÄ™ piece of sugarpaste orange. using yellow food colouring with a littie chestnut brown. Por his beak. model two liny leardrop shapes. one slightly Iarger than the other. Press down gentiy to fiatten them slightiy and then stick them at his mouth with the Iarger one on top. Using the pea-sized amount of yellow sugarpaste. model Tweet/s hands.

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Cut around ten tilos at a timc so that they don't dry out bofore bcing posltioned.

FINISHING TOUCHES

Colour the remaining sugarpaste chestnut brown. Roli it out thmly and cut roof tiles with the sguare cutter. Stick a linÄ™ of tr.es along the bottom of the roof and then build up from the base. The second layer should start with a half t;!e and so on. so that the joins alternate between each layer.

MWith chestnut sugarpaste tnmmings. edge around the base o? the cake with thm stnps and texture as before. With biue trimmmgs. model the bali and teardrop shapes to compiete the finial. When the cake is dry. dilute a bttle biack food colouring pasie and paint Tweety's fme eyebrows and eyelashes.

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