Skill level: Intermediate
Today’s tutorial is an awesome, gravity-defying scorpion cake! This cake was created for a lucky 5-year old bug and insect lover and he was blown away by it.
There’s several tips and tricks in this tutorial including how to make a sandy dessert texture, the gravity-defying structure of the scorpion and all the cool little details on the arachnid, and how to create the shiny number 5. Without further ado, let’s get our tools together and get started!
38:28 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to make a sculpted realistic edible scorpion sitting on a sand cake
- Learn how to create this gravity-defying structure for the scorpion
- How to create a cracky edible dessert texture
- Learn how to paint the details and color the scorpion to look just like real-life
Tutorial Chapters
- Frosting the cake
- Making the body structure
- Making the legs structure
- Covering the cake in fondant
- Covering the scorpion bottom
- Building up the body and legs
- Making the claws
- Making the body and tail
- Finishing the tail
- Adding the claws
- Painting the scorpion
- Adding the scorpion