Skill level: Intermediate
Everything you need to know about making cake toppers!
From advanced armatures and modeling chocolate, measuring scale and creating a realistic figure. This tutorials covers all the basics with tons of tips and tricks.
1:44:01 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- Liz Marek addresses common problems when working with armature wire
- How to use a face mold to quickly get a basic face shape and then customize it to sculpt unique features
- Liz Marek offers tips and tricks to help with blending modeling chocolate seams
- Learn how to make fondant clothing for the rider figure
- How to create a velvet grass texture for the green hill cake
Tutorial Chapters
- Scale & horse measurements
- Building the armature
- Bulking up structure
- Coloring modeling chocolate
- Girl topper measurements
- Coloring girl fondant
- Making the girl’s face
- Roughing out the horse body
- Making horse back legs
- Horse’s front legs
- Horse neck & head
- Making the hill cake
- Checking horse head measurements
- Horse head details
- Painting the horse
- Painting the girl’s face
- Making horse’s mane
- Making girl legs
- Placing girl on horse
- Adding the shirt
- Making the arms
- Adding girl’s hair
- Covering the cake
- Velvet texture grass
- Placing topper