Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2016 | Page 72

Boy 1 with Santa hat

Girl 2 with black hair and red suit

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The hat was created by
attaching a red cone to a
flattened ball of white paste
approximately 30mm thick
disc. It was positioned and
fitted to the head and secured
with sugar glue before adding
a small white ball of paste for
the pom pom.

The gingerbread man was constructed by rolling a small ball
of brown paste for the head, a thick sausage for the body and
a small thin sausage cut in half for the arms. A cut was made
a third of the way up the thick sausage to create the legs. All
of the pieces were positioned and glued in place before gently
pressing down to flatten.
Add 2 black dots for eyes and smile with a pen or fine brush
and roll 2 tiny white balls for buttons.

Take 2g of teal paste, roll into
a ball and flatten sides to form
a cube. Roll out and cut teeny
tiny strips to create ribbon to
go around the box, and loop
to create bow on top.
Make hair holly with 3 teeny
tiny balls of red paste. Use
green paste to make small leaf
shapes and create the holly
leaf shape by indenting the
sides with a pointy tipped tool.

Boy 2 with yellow hair and bow tie
Step 15:
Create the bow tie with a small bit of red paste cut into the shape of a bow tie. Pinch slightly in the middle and a small strip for
the middle. Detail with Dresden tool.

Girl 3 with brown hair and striped skirt

Step 16:
Roll out white modelling paste into a rectangle approximately 11 x 1.5cm (you may have to adjust this depending on the size
of your figurine). Roll out red modelling paste and using a large and sharp knife cut really thin strips. Alternatively, an extruder
would also be handy. Brush some Crisco on the white paste and line up the red paste to form strips.
Once positioned gently push into the white paste with fingers and then with small rolling pin. Brush some glue around the torso
and attach the skirt, pleating as you go.
Create the bauble by simply rolling some white paste into a small ball and adding a teeny tiny ball on top and a small loop
created from a micro size strip of paste. Brush with gold lustre prior to adding arms and hands.

Boy 3 with black hair and Christmas lights
Step 17:
Very thin strips of fondant were rolled and positioned on the figurine to form the base and various coloured tear drops were added
randomly to give the effect of colour Christmas lights.