Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network November 2019 Cake! Magazine | Page 22

Step 57:
Make a teddy to sit in
the boat.
Make the head larger
than the body to make
the bear look cuter.
Make the snout small
and add it to the very
Step 56:
bottom of the head.
Add a little seat and
Mark in the fur by
then paint or airbrush
pushing some fondant
the ‘wood’ strips and
up and away from the
boat once they have set. head and the cheeks.
Step 58:
Place two black ball
eyes onto the lower half
of the head, right down
near the snout. Make
sure they aren’t too
close together. Mark in
some stitches using a
stitching wheel.
Step 59 & 60:
To make the lollipops, add some tylose powder to the fondant. Roll out two sausages of different
coloured fondant and twist them around each other. Coil the twisted fondant into a circle and gently
press flat. Insert a wooden skewer.
To the bottom right hand corner of the cake there is the ‘material’ used to make Dumbo. Roll out some
grey fondant into a large teardrop shape to make the ear. Roll a round ball for the ball of string and roll
out thin strings of fondant as the string. Attach the string with water. Group some of the strings of dark
grey together to make Dumbo’s tail and stick it to a longer sausage of grey string.
To make the pins in the pin cushion, use dry spaghetti topped with little white sugar heads. Use
spaghetti to make the needle and the also the hammer handle in the tool bag. Cover the spaghetti with
fondant and add a hammer head.
To make the boat use blue fondant with tylose powder added. Cut the white deck and roof from
modelling paste and stick them together once the modelling paste has set. Paint on some little black
windows.
Secure Dumbo to the drum with a dowel, some royal icing or some wet fondant.
Secure the polar bear and other sugar decortions to the board in the same way.
Finally, you can finish off the cake by adding some lustre to give it a pearly sheen. You can either brush
on some lustre dust powder or spray on some airbrush pearl shimmer.