Bake up a batch of ellen kharade's teatime treats – not from cake mix, but polymer clay!

What you need...

• BEADS Bicones, amethyst, Swarovski, 4mm (62SW 001X) x 7, Seeds, red, Pearls, pink, 6mm x 7, Crystals, flat back, no hotfix, pink x 9
  
  FINDINGS Polymer clay, FIMO: peppermint (866 010); white (866 001); purple violet (866 016); Indian red (866 005); lemon (866 002); cognac (866 022); apple green (866 013); plum (866 018), Leaf metal: gold; silver, Glitter, fine, Head pins, sterling silver, Clasp, lobster, sterling silver, 9mm (NVF L09), Earwires, hook with ball (NVQ 058X), Jump rings, sterling silver, 5mm (NVH H50), Chain, belcher, oval, plain silver, loose (WVB D00)
  
  TOOLS Cupcake cases, silicone, 3cm, Texture mats: country squares; swirls and scrolls, Cutters, sugar paste: butterfly, small, PME; heart, 6mm, 13mm; blossom, small; circle, small, Cutters, cookie, fluted: 5cm; 6cm, Christmas bauble, glass, medium, Side cutters, Pliers, round-nosed, Scalpel
  

instructions

1. Heart Cupcake - 1. Mix a block of white clay with a little purple violet to create a pale pink colour and roll it into a flattened circle. Press the sheet into the base of a silicone cupcake case with your fingers until it is smooth and a good shape. Trim the top with a scalpel and place onto a baking tray.
   
   2. Place a mediumsized glass bauble onto a jam jar to support it. Knead and roll out a sheet of peppermint clay and cut out a circle using a 6cm cookie cutter. Make up some pale pink clay and roll out flat, then press a scrolls textured mat onto the surface. Cut out a circle with a 5cm fluted cutter.
   
   3. Lay the pink circle on top of the peppermint round and place both pieces on top of the bauble, gently pressing on the clay to get a good dome shape. Roll out a long sausage of white and starting at one end, roll up to resemble piped cream and place on top of the cupcake lid. Decorate with thin pieces cut from purple and pink clay to look like sugar strands.
   
   4. Roll out a sheet of purple clay and lay a small square of gold leaf metal onto the surface. Press the scrolls mat down onto the metal leaf and clay until you get a good impression, then gently lift away and cut out a 13mm heart. Stamp out a 6mm heart from a sheet of purple textured clay and assemble them both on top of the piped cream.
   
   5. Decorate the cupcake with pink flat back crystals and impressions made with the tip of a pencil. Bake in the oven on the glass bauble for 30 minutes at 110°C. Once cool, gently ease the clay off the bauble and assemble the trinket box.