How to Make a Cute Fondant Ballerina Cake Topper

This ballerina topper is a beautiful choice for dance-themed cakes — delicate, sweet, and designed to look light and elegant on a cake.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn a really useful build technique: how to create a stable topper with a narrow base (here it’s the ballerina shoes on tiptoe), and how to secure it safely so it sits confidently on the cake. It’s a method you can reuse for other figurines with a similar 'small base' shape.

Templates are included to guide sizing and proportions, and the design is easy to customise — change colours, hair, and details to match your theme. You can also swap the ballerina feet for regular legs and shoes to turn this into a standing girl topper in a skirt, using the same proportions and style.

You will learn how to:

• create a delicate ballerina topper with balanced proportions and a smooth, polished look
• build a stable standing figurine with a narrow base (tiptoe shoes) that won’t wobble
• shape the parts and assemble the figurine so it holds its form while you work
• create a modelled face using simple, repeatable stages
• add small details and subtle shading for a refined, professional result
• secure and support the topper on the cake so it stays stable during delivery and display