Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2018 Cake! Magazine | Page 64

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Step 31:
To create the arms, cut an 18G wire in half. On each
end of the wire, use a needle nose pliers and twist the
end to make a circle. This is extremely useful trick if
you would like to hang any decoration on its arms.
For the left arm, roll out
20g of grey fondant mixed
with some CMC powder
and shape it into a
tapered cone. Put the wire
through the fondant, with
the circle end of the wire
on the tapered end of the
fondant.
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To secure the ears, add three skewers to the sides of
the koala, preferably at a slight downward angle into
the cake, and slowly push the ear to its head. This
may help compensate for the weight of the ear. Use a small ball of the
lighter grey fondant and
attach it to the back of the
koala to make its tail. Roll out very thin
sausages of black
fondant and place it on
the koala, creating its
eyebrows. You can have
them as rounded or adjust
it to any expression you
like. Cover the other side of
the wire going into the
cake with aluminium foil
tape. Attach the left arm, and
with some water to stick
the arm to the body. Make an L shape with the other wire, and roll out same
amount of fondant with CMC powder and shape the
right arm through the wire. Attach it to the body.