Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2016 | Page 18

You will need:
Equipment
• Ball tool

• Light brown sugar paste – 134g

• Bone tool

• White 50/50 sugar paste/flower paste mix – 10g

• Dresden tool

• Red 50/50 sugar paste/flower paste mix – 6g

• Scalpel

• Black flower paste – 1g

• Blade tool

• Pink flower paste – 2mm ball

• Medium round brush (glue)

• Green flower paste – 1g ball

• Small round brush (glue)

• Yellow flower paste – 5 mm ball,

• Skewer – 8cm

• Sugar glue

• 4 x 3cm cocktail stick pieces

• Shortening (to grease hands)

• 4cm #24 wire

• CMC/Tylose powder*

*I add about 3-5g (1/2 – 1 tsp) of CMC per 200g of sugar paste, depending on the body part.
I add the CMC to the sugar paste shortly before forming the elements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ws4ygOo9TQ

Step 1:
Roll a 45g ball of light
brown sugar paste. Form
a teardrop shaped body.
Make sure the bottom part
of body is flat. You want
the topper to be sturdy.
Insert the skewer in a
rotary motion.

Step 2:
Use a bone tool to make
indentations for the
buttons.

Step 3:
Roll two 7g balls of light
brown sugar paste. Form
the legs. Insert pieces of
cocktail stick in the legs.

Step 4:
I make holes in the body
using a cocktail stick
before inserting the legs
or arms. It’s easier to push
them in without damaging
them.