BAKING PROJECT

Making 3D figures from fondant is not easy for me. It takes a lot of time just to make a single figure. Today I’m going to show you how I make some human figures. First start with two small ball for the buttocks. Add the legs.
Then add the body.

Put on the skirt or lower part of the clothes.

Before making the hands, put on the top shirt.

Now prepare the hands and add the sleeves.

Make the face, add the features and hair and touch up the whole figure. And it’s ready. Looks simple, but I take at least half an hour to do one of this.

Another figure, a baby ( a giant one ) .

My daughter who always kepoci when I do my sugarpaste, wants me to show her work too on my blog..This is hers

Anyway, you can learn more on how to make figures from an excellent tutorial at cakecentral.

Good luck to you !

Making gum paste roses can be time-consuming, sometimes I just make do with these simple fondant roses. My maid cum assistant is really good at this, here’s her in action.

First, roll a long strip, then start twirling it around till you get the size you want. Leave some space in between the layers and furl the edges. Pinch the excess fondant at the bottom. It’s done. Fast and easy.

I practice decorating a cake with these fondant roses today.

Yes, those are not real butterflies, I pinch it off my daughter’s jewelry box. By the time I finished decorating this cake, I was too tired to create a center piece. Step by step process on making this cake :

1. One layer of marzipan
2. Followed by a layer of fondant
3. Cut out a smaller circle in the centre until I can see the marzipan layer.
4. Put in the purple fondant layer. Crimp the sides and inside of the circle.
5. Then I coloured the background where the flowers will be placed, using my gel colouring and brush (felt like a true artist for a while ).
6. Arrange the cut out leaves, and roses.
7. Colour the leaves with gel colouring.
   
8. Make the bottom edging.
9. Brush the flowers, crimp edges and bottom edging with diluted pearl dust.

It’s better to colour using paste or powdered colouring, but I don’t have any.

Hope this gives you some idea on how to decorate your cake. The round circle can be replaced with pastillage which becomes very hard, and you can also do some painting on it. Or you could put a small edible image instead, lots of things you can come out with..

Ok, take care and have a good weekend ahead.