hello I'm Marsha when Bechtler and my husband roll in my own cake supplies plus calm or professional cake decorating instructors and we've appeared on the Food Network and TLC's ultimate cake off we're also known for our life-size cake sculptures that we do oven for celebrities and photos of those are available on our website too hi today I want to show you how to use broke molds to make some really fancy designs for the sides or tops of cakes and we have a set of four baroque molds available on our website you can buy them individually or other molds that are available also and this is one of the set here's another one third one out of the set of four fourth one now to use the molds first you want to put a thin coating of shortening or vegetable oil inside the mold to keep the I'm going to use a fondant and gum paste mixture 50/50 and to keep that from sticking and you can also dust it with either cornstarch or in this case I'm using my pump brush here that has pearl dust in and I'm put a little coating of that on top of there also and I'll go back and coat that after also coat the gum paste mixture after the designs all finished and then I have a mixture of 5050 gum paste and fondant 1/2 gum paste 1/2 fondant and I want a little bit of shortening on the outside of that too I want to roll it so that I have one smooth side the other side can have creases in at the backside but you want to make sure the side you're pressing in the mold is nice and smooth but I just want to gently press this down into the mold and I found my hand works best for this then I want to go back and scoot from the center out and pull away the excess use my hand I just push it to make sure it's filling in all the crevices of the mold design and you can see how it works it gets thinner out there on the edge and eventually where it just starts taking the shape of the of the design when I get most of that removed then I'm going to use a fondant smoother to clean it up you can kind of pull in from the outside edges and clean up the edges you don't want rough edges on it because those really show up on the cake there is a way to clean it up a little bit after you take it out of the mold and I'll show you that in a bit too but just basically get your edges nice and clean if you find that you have a lot that's excess you can use a palette knife palette Knights have nice sharp edges I like the offset type like this because your hands not in the way and you can get rid of any excess with that if you need to then I'm going to put it in the freezer for about ten minutes now I've taken it out of the freezer and then I just want to use a small tool just to get it in one of the spots here and kind of pry up one edge and then I can just sort of peel it out of there and because it's frozen I can do that and I want to turn it over and look for any rough edges if you see any rough edges that then you would push towards the back of the design you have a few minutes for this starts warming up and getting really tacky so two-three minutes and because it does get tacky it actually is nice in a little bit for brushing on your pearl dust so you can either brush it on now or after you put it in place and that tackiness makes it stick and to attach it to your cake surface just make sure that you have a little bit of water on the back I just want to put it up against the cake where I wanted after I dampen the backside and then put it in position and it'll stick I want to be careful not to press out any of the design that's in there and then since it's still tacky from the condensation on the surface I can go back and brush on the surface and the dry fondant on the cake does not take on the pearl dust here but just my baroque designs do