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Giant Flying Saucer

by Annette Harper 10 photos Rated 61% 312 votes when voting closed

Is it a bird, is it a plane NOOOOOOOO it’s a giant Flying saucer.

Tight crop on a pile of ordinary pastel flying saucer sweets in pink, green and yellow

To make this E.T.E.C – Extra Terrestrial Edible Creation

Equipment-

4 bowls for shaping paper
Kitchen roll
Pastry Brush

Ingredients –
– Edible paper sheets – 75p per pack
– Sherbet – 35p per pack

Sherbet tubes and two packets of pink edible paper laid out on a black tray

Directions –

1. Place paper onto a sheet of kitchen roll as this stops your edible paper sticking to EVERYTHING

2. Brush along edges of paper with a DAMP brush, too wet and you end up with a sticky mess.

Brushing water onto a sheet of edible paper with a pastry brush over kitchen roll

3. Once you have stuck sheets together leave to dry.

Several sheets of edible paper wetted and joined into one large square on kitchen roll

4. Once dry sandwich the edible sheets between two sheets of kitchen roll and gently and slowly press between two bowls to create your saucer shape.

Moulding the damp edible paper over an upturned wooden bowl to form a dome

5. Place heavy object on the bowls and leave for around 30 mins.

6. Then remove the kitchen roll and place the edible paper back between the bowls and trim the edges.

7. Remove from bowl and cut slits around the edge.

Two dried edible-paper domes with fringed cut edges, taken off their moulds

8. Put the sherbet into on half of you saucer

9. Then cut the edges for your saucer

Filling one edible-paper dome with white sherbet powder, the second dome waiting alongside

10. Brush the edges with a damp brush and stick the two halves together

The white top dome pressed onto the fringed base, sitting on kitchen roll beside scissors

11. Then brush the edge pieces and stick them to the saucer

12. Now leave to dry and Your E.T.E.C is sorted.

The completed flying saucer, yellow top sealed onto the white base, resting on kitchen roll

A good tip is if you do use too much water and make holes in your saucer just wrap a piece of paper to size and mend the hole but always leave it to dry as if it gets stuck to your hands you will make the holes bigger and get cross and end up throw the sodding thing back into space

The finished giant flying saucer held up in one hand, filling the whole palm

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