Cake! magazine Download and Print February 2015 | Page 11

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Build up darker
colours around eyes,
concentrating on the outer
contours, don’t worry
about dust overflowing
into the middle of the eyes
as we will cover that with
the whites of the eyes.

Press a thinly rolled piece
of fondant onto the eyes
of the original plastic
doll’s head to make an
impression you can use
as a guide to cut around.
Stick eyes on using water
or sugar glue.

Use circle punches to cut
out the irises and pupils.
Make sure these layers
are super thin.

Trim the excess off the
top of the iris so it fits
neatly within the eye.
Add details to the Iris’s
with a darker dust and
add the pupil. For the
glint in the eye use a dot
of white paint or a white
non-pareil.

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Roll tiny sausages of
black fondant with very
tapered, pointy ends.
Curl slightly and attach
as eyelashes to rim of the
eyes. Use the very tip of
a craft knife to pick up
and attach the individual
lashes.

Roll longer sausages for
eyeliner on the top lids,
this will also cover up
any messy joins where
the lashes meet the eyes.
Two slightly fatter, tapered
sausages make up the
eyebrows.

For the body start with a
short log of flesh coloured
fondant with tylose. Thin
out one end for the neck.
Thread the body onto
a temporary wooden
skewer the same size that
has been attached to the
head. Make sure the body
can slide up and down
the skewer and is not
stuck.

Using modelling tools
and your fingers give the
torso a bust and waistline.
Remove the
skewer and replace with
the head on it’s skewer,
making sure the neck and
head fit together neatly
but are still not stuck.

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