ball tool - 7 mm (or similar size) - I used a bone tool
small rolling pin
bone tool (or use the round side of the dresden tool)
round cutters:
50 mm (or similar size) - This cutter needs to be similar size as the head.
40 mm (or similar size)
20 mm (or similar size)
16 mm (or similar size)
piping nozzle - 1 mm (or similar size)
brushes:
glue - medium round, fine round
dusting - medium flat, small round
scissors (or use a scalpel)
pliers
styrofoam cake dummy
non-stick board
Flower paste (gum paste)*:
yellow - 73 g
red - 4 g
black - 1 g
Edible glue
Dust colours
orange yellow
red
* You don’t have to use the same type of paste as me. If you decide to use sugarpaste (fondant) instead of flower paste (gum paste), make sure you add quite a lot of CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose) to it. It will make the paste thicker and speed-up the drying time. That way the body won’t sink under the weight of the head.
7.5 cm
12.
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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