Round cutter - slightly larger than the llama’s head (I used a 58 mm one)
Teardrop cutters:
22 mm x 17 mm (or similar size)
18 mm x 13 mm (or similar size)
Carnation cutter - 25 mm (or similar size; or other flower cutter)
Wooden skewer x 2
Florist wire - #24 (or similar gauge); 3 about 3 cm long pieces
Pliers
Painting palette (or small containers f.ex. bottle caps)
Foam pad
Styrofoam cake dummy
Flower paste (gum paste):
white - 82 g
ivory - 2 g
black - 1 g
yellow - 4 g
pink - 4 g
blue/teal - 4 g
50/50 FP/SP mix*:
white - 12 g
Black gel (paste) colour
Dust colours
rose
yellow
blue
pink
Edible glue
* SP = sugar paste = fondant; FP = flower paste = gum paste. To make the mix, knead same amounts of the SP and FP together. You don’t need to weigh the paste. Just mix similar size pieces. If you mix two types of pastes together you get properties somewhere in between those two.
9.5 cm (with the ears)
7.
Make a tunnel in a cake dummy with a wooden skewer. Insert it straight all the way down. Push it in and take it out a couple of times to widen the tunnel. That way it will be easier to take out the cake topper later.
The part of the stick that goes in the cake dummy (or later in the cake) should be quite long. I usually leave it long and trim it to the depth of the cake later (once the cake topper is dry). If the stick reaches the bottom of the cake, the cake topper won’t sink into the cake.
For more support (or if the stick doesn’t reach the bottom of the cake) you can insert a dowel (f.ex. a plastic straw) under the cake topper.
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