Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network May 2018 Cake! Magazine | Page 28

Cont step 6: The eyes
To paint the iris, use
vodka and gel colour and
apply with a very thin
brush. To get a realistic
effect, look at reference
photos or simply look in
the mirror at your own
eyes.
Step 7: The eyelids and under-eye area
Roll out modelling paste, cut out a circle and cut this in half. Place it onto the
eyeball to create the under eyelid area. Blend it in. Do it the same way for the
upper eyelid and the other eye.
Step 8: Lips
Place a small sausage of modelling paste to create
the upper lip and blend it in. Don’t forget to texture the
lip - texture is always most important!
Step 9: Face
Apply more modelling
paste to the chin, cheeks
and the lips. Remember
that children’s faces are
much fleshier than adults.
Step 10: Nose
Form the nose by creating a sausage with modelling paste. To create the nostrils
and nose wing, stick in a pointed modelling tool and pull carefully outwards.
Step 11: Ears
For children, the ears
should be placed level
with the middle of the
eyes and middle of the
mouth (when looking
at head from the side).
Roll modelling paste
into an egg shape, pull
a hole in and form with
ball tool using c-shape
indentations.
Step 12: Hair
Cover the head with a hood of light brown fondant mixed with CMC. Add volume
to the hair by shaping drop-shaped pieces of fondant. Texture them with the
dresden tool, shape them into strands of hair and attach them with edible glue.
To keep their position when drying, paper towel is very helpful. The hair gets a
more realistic look if you marble some beige and dark brown into the light brown
fondant. For this I used my paste colour which I thinned out with alcohol.