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Equipment
- cake dummy (diameter: 6’’, depth: 5’’) or three 6'' round pieces of cake, about 1,5'' deep (if you are making a cake)
- 6'' thin, round cake board or foam board (if you are making a cake)
- about 300 g of ganache or buttercream (if you are making a cake)
- medium rolling pin
- small rolling pin
- serrated knife
- small knife
- cocktail sticks x 6
- round cutters:
- 2,8 cm
- 1,5 cm
- 1 cm
- piping nozzles:
- 6 mm
- 2 mm
- dresden tool
- stitching tool
- long knife
- scalpel
- dusting brushes
- medium round
- medium flat
- fine round f.ex. #00
- marker
- templates (you'll find them in the 'TEMPLATES' tab)
Edibles
- Sugar paste (fondant)*
- Flower paste (gum paste)*
- Dust colours:
- white
- brown
- black
- yellow
- rose
- violet
- Edible glue
- White vegetable fat f.ex. Trex (to grease the surface of the board and hands)
- Corn flower
- CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose)
- Stiff peak royal icing (if you're making a cake)
Amounts
- Sugar paste (fondant):
- sand yellow - 580 g sand (gel colours which I have used to colour the paste: golden yellow + ivory)
- Flower paste:
- brown - 2 g
- black - 47 g
- light purple - 15 g (gel colours which I have used to colour the paste: rose + violet)
- pink - 5 g
- grey - 1 g grey
- white - 91 g
It was such a pleasure to create this little fellow, and I hope you’ll enjoy making him too. You can use this tutorial to make either a cake topper or a small cake. The photos show the topper version, while the written steps also include guidance for turning it into a cake.
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