CUTE HIPPO TAKING BATH

CUTE HIPPO TAKING BATH

Oct 28, 2018 | Modelling

Author: Lynsey Wilton-Eddleston

FB: SUGARWHIZZ

Skill level: BEGINNERS

FROM LYNSEY:

Here Sugarwhizz shows you how to model this cute hippo taking a bath! Little hippo and his adorable duck would be perfect for that special baby shower cake or little one’s birthday!

 

You will need:

  • 2 x 28g Rice crispy treat bar
  • Grease Proof paper / Parchment paper and scissors
  • Dresden tool
  • Large and small balling tools
  • Small Rolling Pin
  • Sharp knife
  • Small Paintbrush (for gluing together)
  • Small soft paintbrush (for dusting details).
  • Cool boiled water
  • Cocktail sticks
  • Food safe skewer
  • For this tutorial I used the following Cerart tools Cerart Large balling tool (K500) Cerart Small balling tool K501 & K502
  • 30g Black Saracino modelling paste
  • 50g Brown Saracino modelling paste
  • 7g Grey Saracino modelling paste – Add a small amount of Saracino black gel to white paste.
  • 88g of grey Saracino modelling chocolate
  • 10g White Saracino modelling paste
  • 3g Light blue modelling paste
  • 1g Black Saracino modelling paste
  • 5g Navy Saracino modelling paste (add a small amount of blue colour with a tiny amount of black to the paste to create navy)
  • 3g Yellow Saracino modelling paste
  • 1g Black Saracino modelling paste
  • 1g Orange modelling pastE
  • Saracino gel Black, Light Blue, Yellow, Orange, Brown
  • Saracino Powder lake – Pink and brown
  • Cool boiled water for gluing

Step 1

Take two 28g bars of RKT and roll into a short fat cylinder shape, gently pressing and squeezing the RKT together as you go. Flatten the top and bottom. 

 

Step 2

Take 30g of black modelling paste, knead and soften to warm up. Using a small rolling pin roll out the paste to a thickness of around 1-2mm, the paste should be big enough that when you drape it over the RKT the whole barrel is covered.

Step 3

Smooth the paste across the top of the barrel, then using your fingertips gently smooth the paste down around the sides. Don’t worry if there are creases it doesn’t have to be perfect. Turn the barrel upside down and gently but firmly squeeze the paste around the sides to ensure the paste is stuck to the RKT. There should be no need for water the RKT should be sticky enough to hold the paste.

Step 4

Gather the excess paste around the bottom of the barrel.

Step 5

Fold the excess paste down onto the bottom of the barrel. Gently but firmly push and smooth the paste together to completely cover the bottom of the barrel. 

Step 6

Turn the barrel the right way up and place on the work surface. Gently press down on the top with the palm of your hand to ensure the paste is well stuck to the RKT.

Step 7

Rub the paste on the bottom with your fingertips in small circular motions to blend and smooth together.

Step 8

Smooth any prominent lumps and bumps around the sides again by rubbing the paste in small circular motions with your fingertips.

Step 9

Finish off by smoothing the top of the barrel and ensuring its relatively level.

Step 10

Cut a piece of greaseproof paper so that it’s slightly longer than the circumference of the barrel and approximately 5mm taller than the top of the barrel.

Step 11

Take 50g of brown modelling paste, knead and soften to warm up then roll out to a thickness approx. 3-4mm. Lay the paper template you made in the previous step on top of the paste and using a sharp knife trim the paste to size.

Step 12

Use the sharp knife to cut the paste into 10 strips. They don’t have to be precise or even the same width. Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to score lines and grooves from top to bottom on each plank. 

Step 13

Continue until all the planks are textured. Try to keep the planks in order, to ensure they fit together when you stick them to the barrel.

Step 14

Apply a small amount of water to the back of the first plank and stick into place. Leave approximately 5mm of the plank sticking up above the barrel. Ensure that the plank is straight and stick down bending the end of the plank underneath as shown.

Step 15

Continue around until all the planks are stuck into place. It may be necessary to trim the last plank with a sharp knife to fit. Don’t worry if you have small gaps. That’s why we covered the barrel with black paste first! 

Step 16

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to gently redefine the edges of the planks. Start at the top and run the tool gently down and around onto the base of the barrel.

Step 17

Mark the inside of each plank with the veining end of the Dresden tool to add texture.

Step 18

Using a small dry paintbrush apply a small amount of the brown edible tint down the edges of each plank to shade and add contrast.

Step 19

Dust the top inside edges of the planks. Continue to add a small amount of shading randomly to the planks around the outside as shown.

Step 20

Take 7g of grey modelling paste, knead and soften to warm up. Roll out to a thickness of around 1-2mm. Use the paper template as a guide and cut 2 strips of paste approximately 1cm wide. Carefully cut one of the strips lengthways in half so that you have 2 thinner strips and one thicker strip of paste as shown.

Step 21

Add a small amount of water to the back of each strip. Attach the top strip first. Start at the back of the barrel, attach one end of the strip and wrap the paste gently around the barrel whilst sticking it in place. Trim off any excess paste. Repeat for the second strip and finish with the widest strip at the bottom. 

Step 22

Take 45g of grey modelling chocolate, roll into a tear drop shape. Sit on the work surface and gently flatten the top with your finger tip.

Step 23

Apply a small amount of water to the base of the body and stick into place on the top of the barrel. Gently push a food safe skewer down through the middle of the body and into the barrel, leaving a small amount of skewer protruding from the top ready for the head later.

Step 24

Take 30g of grey modelling chocolate knead and soften to warm up and roll into a ball.

Step 25

Roll the top of the ball between your thumb and forefinger to narrow the head slightly as shown.

Step 26

Gently press your finger across the face to create a shallow indent.

Step 27

To make the mouth first take the smoothing end of the Dresden tool and push in gently to open the mouth. Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark each side of the mouth.

Step 28

Use the small end of the small balling tool to gently indent each corner of the mouth as shown.

Step 29

Use the large end of the balling tool to indent two eye sockets as shown.

Step 30

Use the small end of the balling tool gently press in to make two small eye sockets as shown.

Step 31

Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark two small creases at the base of each eye socket as shown.

Step 32

Take 2g of black modelling paste, divide equally into two and roll each piece into a small ball. Apply a small amount of water into each eye socket and stick the paste into place. 

Step 33

Take 1g of grey modelling chocolate and roll two small balls. Stick them into place as shown. Use the small balling tool to gently create the nostrils.

Step 34

The nostrils should be positioned just above each side of the mouth as shown.

Step 35

Take two tiny balls of grey modelling chocolate, roll each one into a teardrop and flatten with your fingertip. Use the smoothing end of the Dresden tool to indent the centre of each ear. Use the tip of the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark a line in the centre of each ear as shown. Cut the bottom of each ear off with a sharp knife as shown.

Step 36

Apply a small amount of water to the top of the body, gently slide the head down the skewer until it comes to rest on the body. Stick the ears into place on the top of the head.

Step 37

Take 3g of light blue modelling chocolate roll into a short fat cylinder. Flatten the paste slightly with your fingertips and gently squeeze the middle to indent the paste as shown.

Step 38

Take 10g of grey modelling chocolate and divide equally into two. Roll each piece into a short teardrop. Narrow slightly at one end by rolling the paste between your thumb and finger to create the hand. Gently flatten and smooth the hand with your fingertips. Again, roll the paste between your thumb and finger to narrow the wrist and lengthen the arm as shown. Bend the right arm in the middle and gently pinch out the elbow. Leave the left arm straight.

Step 39

Gently press a food safe skewer into the paste as shown.

Step 40

Carefully slide the arm down the skewer and stick into place with a small amount of water.

Step 41

Use the large end of the balling tool to gently indent the palm of the hand.

Step 42

Stick the sponge into place at the bottom of the left arm. Stick the right arm into place resting the hand on the sponge.

Step 43

Take 7g of white modelling paste and roll multiple balls of varying sizes.

Step 44

Take 2g of white modelling paste and roll lots of tiny balls of various sizes. Stick them randomly into place around the top of the barrel.

Step 45

Take 2g of white modelling paste and roll lots of tiny balls of various sizes. Stick them randomly into place around the top of the barrel.

Step 46

Position some of the tiny balls so that they are ‘spilling’ down the side of the barrel.

Step 47

Roll two tiny white balls and stick them into place on each eye as shown.

Step 48

Stick some tiny balls around the base of the left arm and across the sponge. Add a few to the top of the right shoulder.

Step 49

Add a few tiny white balls to the top of the head and left hand.

Step 50

Use the small end of the balling tool to gently indent a belly button.

Step 51

Place the hippo to one side to dry a little.

Step 52

Take 3g of yellow modelling paste. Roll 1g into a teardrop shape, 1g into a small ball and divide the last 1g into two, roll each piece into a teardrop shape and flatten gently with your fingertip. Roll two tiny balls of black modelling paste, and finally roll a tiny ball of orange modelling paste into a teardrop shape.

Step 53

Stick the two wings either side of the body. Use the small balling tool to indent two holes and stick the eyes into place. Stick the head onto the body ad finally add the beak.

Step 54

Thinly roll 4g of navy modelling paste, and using a sharp knife trim the edges to make a rough rectangle shape. Gently roll and press a cocktail stick along the paste to texture.

Step 55

Fold the paste together to look like a crumpled towel.

Step 56

To finish use a soft paintbrush to apply a small amount of Saracino pink dust to the cheeks and palm of the hippo.

Step 57

Add a small amount of dust to the inside of the ears.

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THE GREATEST SHOWPIECE

THE GREATEST SHOWPIECE

Oct 14, 2018 | Collaboration

The Greatest Showpiece 

by Mr Baker’s Cakes


Introducing one little boy with a big imagination.

When little Jacob designed his own fifth birthday cake, he was inspired by his favourite film, with the design including all of his favourite characters, larger than life animals, music, movement and a lot more besides!

His godfather, cake blogger Rob Baker-Gall of Mr Baker’s Cakes and Mr Baker’s Blog knew that this wasn’t something he could do on his own, so he reached out to his friends – some of the most talented cake decorators and artists in the UK – to achieve the impossible and bring Jacob’s dreams to life.

We Are Featuring the work of 17 fantastically talented and amazingly generous cake artists from across the UK who all came together to help bring to life the dreams of a very special little boy on his fifth birthday.

The finished cake was on a 0.92m board and was over 1.6m tall – with the majority of the characters modelled out of Saracino Modelling Paste.

Enjoy <3

 

Becky Jenkins aka Beck Jenkins Sugar Art

Vicky Teather aka Yello Bee Cake Co

Trudy Smith aka The Chain Lane Cake Co. 

Kelly Alger aka Caked Away

Julie Rogerson aka Julie’s Cake In A Box 

Julie Rogerson aka Julie’s Cake In A Box 

Sarah Bray aka Daisy Cakes

Congratulations On Your Amazing Creations!

Take Your Time And Watch This Amazing Cake And Creations In Full Bloom.

To Watch Click HERE

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KAWAII HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE TOPPERS

KAWAII HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE TOPPERS

Oct 13, 2018 | Cakes, Cupcakes, Modelling

Author: SARAH BRAY

FB: DAISY CAKES BY SARAH

Skill level: BEGINNERS

You will need:

  • Black sugarpaste with tylose powder
  • Purple sugarpaste with tylose powder (I coloured white paste with Saracino violet gel colour)
  • Saracino modelling paste purple
  • Saracino modelling paste orange
  • Saracino modelling paste fuschia
  • Saracino modelling paste light green
  • Saracino modelling paste white
  • Sugar glue
  • Fine tipped edible black pen
  • Pale pink edible dust
  • 58mm round cutter
  • Cobble impression mat
  • Foam drying mat
  • Rolling pin
  • 29mm circle cutter
  • Paintbrush
  • Craft knife
  • Small ball tool
  • 2.5cm circle cutter
  • 6mm round plunger cutter
  • Small soft brush
  • Silicon shaping tool

GHOSTS

Step 1

Roll out black paste and use a cobble impression mat to make a pattern. Cut out two 58mm circles. Cut out two 58mm purple circles. Leave to dry on a foam mat.

Step 2

To make the larger ghost roll a cherry tomato sized piece of white paste into a ball and angle your hands to make a teardrop shape. Bend the tail of the ghost slightly. 

Step 3

Cut out a 29mm circle of black paste for the brim of the hat and glue to the ghosts head. Roll a marble sized piece of black paste into a teardrop shape using the sides of your hands. Cut off the rounded end and stick onto the brim of the hat bending the tip over.

Step 4

To make the ghosts arms roll two small teardrop shapes from white paste. Make a little dent on each side of the ghost with the end of a paintbrush and glue the arms inside (pointed end first)

Step 5

Make two small indents for the eyes and add small balls of black paste. Add tiny white pieces of paste for the highlights.

Step 6

For the baby ghost make a small teardrop shape as before and bend the end up. Roll a small sausage shape of white paste and cut in half to make the baby ghosts arms and stick on with glue.

Step 7

Glue both ghosts to the black cobbled topper and leave to dry (supporting with kitchen roll if necessary)

WITCHES HAT

Step 1

Roll a cherry tomato sized piece of black paste into a ball and angle your hands to make a teardrop shape and cut of the rounded end to make the witches hat.

Step 2

Cut out a 29mm circle of black paste. Add a small spot of glue to the centre of the circle and attach to a purple discs. Use the end of a paintbrush to lift the brim in three places slightly. Glue on the cone of the hat and bend tip slightly.

Step 3

To make the spider roll a small oval ball of fuschia paste in the palm of your hand.

Step 4

Roll another piece of fuschia paste into a long thin length. Place the body on top of the length of paste and cut the first pair of legs

Step 5

Repeat this three times to create the spiders 8 legs and use a craft knife to separate and shorten the legs.

Step 6a

Roll out a long thin length of black paste and bend the top section over to make the first loop (in the shape of an ‘e’)

Step 6b

Repeat to make a second loop and cut off excess.

Step 6c

Glue the spider to the bottom of this length and attach this to the witches hat with sugar glue.

Step 7

Use a small ball tool to make two indents for eyes and fill with small balls of black paste. Add highlights as before.

Step 8

Using a 6mm round plunger cutter, cut out a thin circle of white paste. Cut in half and attach one half for the mouth of the hat.

PUMPKIN

Step 1

Roll a cherry tomato sized piece of orange paste into a ball and cut off a quarter with a craft knife and set aside.

Step 2

Push the ball into the workboard leaning it back slightly and use a silicon shaping tool to create grooves for the pumpkin and repeat on the lid. 

Step 3

Roll a small piece of light green paste into a teardrop shape and cut off the rounded end. Make a small indent with a small ball tool in the lid and glue in the stalk.

Step 4

To make the lollies roll out two long thin lengths of green and fuchsia paste. Pinch together and the top and twist into a rope.

Step 5

Curl these round to make a lolly and repeat to make a smaller one. Flatten slightly with your finger

Step 6

To make the candies roll three thin lengths of fuchsia, orange and white paste and push together.

Step 7

Cut diagonally one way and the other to cut 6 little candies. Use your thumb and fingers to push and shape them together.

Step 8

Use a small ball tool to make two indents for eyes and fill with small balls of black paste. Add white highlights as before. 

Step 9

Fill the pumpkin with the sweets and candies. Attach pumpkin, lid and additional sweet onto the black topper.

CAULDRON

Step 1

Roll a cherry tomato sized piece of black paste into a ball. Cut off a quarter with a knife.

Step 2

Roll 3 pea sized pieces of black paste into balls and set aside to dry.

Step 3

For the rim of the cauldron roll out a piece of paste 3mm thick and cut out a 2.5cm circle and attach to the flat side of the cauldron with sugar glue.

Step 4

Roll a collection of little balls of varying sizes using green, fuchsia and orange paste and arrange these on the top of the cauldron securing with sugar glue.

Step 5

Use a small ball tool to make two indents for eyes and fill with small balls of black paste. Add white highlights as before. 

Step 6

When the cauldron legs feel firmer arrange them in a small triangle on the purple disc and gently stick the cauldron on top.

Step 7

Using a 6mm round plunger cutter, cut out a thin circle of white paste. Cut in half and attach one half for the mouth of the cauldron. Add a few bubbles to the side of the cauldron.

Step 8

Roll 2 small white balls of paste and use a small ball tool to make an indent. Stick in 2 small balls of black paste and add highlights as before. Stick these onto the topper.

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BABY DRAGON SWEET VALENTIN

BABY DRAGON SWEET VALENTIN

Oct 6, 2018 | Modelling

Author: Isabel Tamargo

FB: Tartas Impossibles by Isabel Tamargo

Skill level: BEGINNERS

You will need:

  • Approx 250g of Saracino modelling paste for the figurine
  • Approx 200g of Saracino sugar paste for the board
  • Modelling tools (small size)
  • Diamond shape cutters (at least two small sizes)
  • Scalpel
  • Rolling pin
  • 18cm rounded cake drum
  • A piece of aluminium foil
  • A pair of toothpicks
  • RKT for the interior
  • Colours: apple green, milk chocolate, green, metallic green, pink, metallic grey

Step 1

Make the shape for the body and head. You can cover a small amount of RKT if it is to be edible or cover a rolled up foil ball if you just want to make the figurine for display purposes. We will cover both elements with the modelling paste, already coloured with apple green colour.

Step 2

Start the face by using a ball shape. Press with the dresden tool in both sides to mark the cheeks. Make the lines of the eyebrows and eyes like in the pictures to have smily eyes. Finally mark a little more the cheeks, forming them rounder.

Step 3

Make both nose and mouth really easy, using two small pieces of Saracino modelling paste. You can wet both pieces to fix them to the rest of the face. Make them rounded and smooth with your fingers and make two holes to form the nose. The mouth has to be open so just add the second part (jawline and chin) and fix it just as you did with the sides. You can mark the smile in the corners of the mouth with the dresden tool as you see in the pictures

Step 4

Finish the head with ears and some hair and fix them to the head with water. You can also decorate the head with some texture, making squares with your tool up to the forehead and back of the head

Step 5

Let’s make some more details! Take a pinch of white modelling paste to create the teeth. Just fix them in the upper and inner part of the mouth and make some straight lines. We can also take a pinch of paste, dye it with pink and make the tongue coming out to have a funny expression.

Step 6

Let’s prepare the board! Knead and roll the sugar paste and cover the cake drum with a thick layer. Don’t forget to dampen the board first to have the paste stick to it. Make textures, like a stone floor with our modelling tool, I recommend the dresden tool to form the holes rounded. You can make the pattern of the stones to the size required. Take small pieces of paste and make the stones to cover the side of your drum. Dust it to add extra contrast.

Step 7

Now it’s time to make the body. We need to stick the shape we made already with the RKT to the board. Once we have the body stable, we can start forming the legs, using the dresden tool as you see in the pictures. Then stick them to the body with water and bend them like in the picture.

Step 8

Now the arms, also with our tool, bending them a little in the middle and making some details on the hands like wrinkles and nails as you see in the pictures. You don’t have to work too much on the arms because we will cover them after with scales

Step 9

We can make the heart to let it set. It’s really easy to make the shape, just decorate it with your choice of words (“love”) written with a rounded tool and make some textures using a piece of foil.

Step 10

Now it’s time to decorate the body with the scales. You can shape them directly to the body after you cover the RKT but in this tutorial we will make them with cutters. For the body you can use large ones, we don’t need a cutter for that. Just try to use different sizes, make it smaller in the upper part and getting larger towards the tummy. Make small diamonds for the rest of the body and fix them with water starting always at the bottom and working up, overlapping the rows until we get to the top. Make a tail with a piece of paste, covering it with scales and put a textured heart at the top. Shape a pair of wings and allow to dry. Fix them to the back of the dragon with toothpicks and water or edible glue.

Step 11

After covering all with the scales we can fix all the elements together. The arms have to hold the heart but all are glued to the body so it will be easy to build. Put the tail on the heart, curvy. Stick the head in the body with another toothpick and you have your dragon ready to paint!

It’s easier to paint your figurines if you work with pre-coloured paste so now you just have to apply shade and colour as you wish. Use the darker colours for the inners parts, depressions and holes and metallics for the rest, applying carefully with a brush. Also with the board, you need the cream colour for the centre of the stones and a darker brown for the holes to create the texture effect.

And it’s done!

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CUTE BALLERINA MOUSE CAKE TOPPER

CUTE BALLERINA MOUSE CAKE TOPPER

Sep 27, 2018 | Modelling

Author: Patricia Alonso

FB: La Galeteria 

Skill level: BEGINNERS

You will need:

  • White SARACINO modelling sugar paste
  • Black  SARACINO modelling sugar paste
  • Tiffany  SARACINO modelling sugar paste
  • Plastic  knife Cerart
  • Sharp cutting knife
  • Paint brushes for painting, dusting and gluing
  • Glue
  • Pink dust for brushing
  • Black pen edible paint
  • Small ball tool Cerart
  • Big  ball tool Cerart
  • Small rolling pin
  • Round cutters of different sizes
  • Foam
  • Flower wires number 22
  • Cocktail stick
  • Black edible ink pen

Step 1

Mix some white SARACINO modelling sugar paste and a bit of black SARACINO modelling sugar paste to have a light grey paste.

Step 2

Make a ball and roll it into a sausage. Cut the tIps of them to have legs as long as you need.

Step 3

Make two balls with some Tiffany SARACINO modelling sugar paste and, then, roll it  into a pear shape for the ballet slippers.

Step 4

Glue the ballet slippers in the tips of the sausage.

Step 5

Roll some Tiffany SARACINO modelling sugar paste into a pear shape. Cut the base of the pear with a sharp cutting knife.

Step 6

Stretch thin with the rolling pin some Tiffany SARACINO modelling sugar paste and cut 3 different size rounds.

Step 7

On a foam, press each round on the edge with a big ball tool Cerart and let dry a few minutes before assembling.

Step 8

Stretch thin with the rolling pin some Tiffany SARACINO modelling sugar paste and cut four narrow strips. Then, roll some light grey paste into a teardrop shape and press with a small ball tool Cerart to build the mouth.

Step 9

Assembly the pieces with edible glue.  To secure the head on the top of the body, insert a cocktail stick and push it down securing the head with a little edible glue. 

Step 10

1. Stretch thin with the rolling pin some light grey paste and cut two rounds of the same size for the ears. 

2. With the same cutter, cut a small part of each ear  to support it better on the head.

3. Use some light grey paste and roll it into a sausage with a pointed end and cut as long as you need.

4. Roll a bit of black SARACINO modelling sugar paste into an oval shape.

Step 11

Assembly the pieces with edible glue.

Step 12

Paint the eyes with a black edible ink pen.

Step 13

Roll some light grey modelling paste  into a sausage with a little ball in one of the tIps. Cut the other tIp and insert a wire inside of them. Press lightly the tip and cut a small triangle to form the thumb.

Step 14

Brush the cheeks with pink dust.

Step 15

AND…. YOUR BALLERINE RAT IS FINISHED!

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