I need to make some little farm animals for the sides of a baby shower cake. I read the posts on the Sculpty push molds so that's out...besides I couldn't find any other than zoo animals. Please, can anyone help me with this. It's for my daughter's baby shower and I so want it to be just right. Thanks!!!

How about some animal shaped sugar cookies decorated, just a thought and you can glue them to the sides of the cake with a little bc icing

That's a good idea. If I can't find some way of making them with fondant or gumpaste I'll give it a try. I'd need to find cookie cutters that are pretty small though, only about 2 inches high.

I did a nativity scene cake for work at Christmas last year and couldn't find cookie cutters, sooo I searched the net and found the nativity pic I needed and printed them out and cut and then just layed them down on my cookie dough and cut out with a knife, worked out pretty well. Good luck

You could cut animals out of fondant with cookie cutters and then paint the details with food coloring or pipe them with royal.

You could make the animals out of color flow (use pictures from a children's book or coloring book for patterns) and attach them to the sides of the cake or on top using toothpicks.

You could figure pipe them with buttercream or royal. I've tried to attach the directions to this post, but it's not working for me, so I'll try to load the directions separately. You can adapt the basic concept to create many different animals. If you want to make horses or cows standing up, I would pipe the legs and bodies separately out of royal, let them dry, and then attach the pieces together.

Hi PennySue!


I'm not sure if this would help but here is a link to a clay modeling site some of these sites I've found actually break down how they make the figures(not this one)... but this one had a little duck, cow and pig maybe you could play around with the fondant until you got the basic shapes?...

http://creations.poonkie.com/figurines/farm.php

Kim

try this when all else fails

http://thepartyworks.com/product_info.php/cPath/3_7/products_id/55


or pipe them out of royal

There is a farm in the gallery that used marshmallows as a base and piped royal on that to make animals

There is a step-by-step on wilton.com on how to make sheep, cows, chickens, pigs & cows out of royal icing. I've made them & they're not hard. It's out of royal icing and they come out adorable!!! Do the search under "barn" or "farm", I can't remember which cake it is.

I just found that on Wilton.

http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesandprojects/bday/redbarn.cfm#

Go to wilton.com
Click on Decorating Techniques on the left hand side bar
Click on Basic Decorating Techniques on the top tool bar
Listed below will be directions for piping pigs, chickens and chicks, sheep sitting, sheep standing, and mice.

I can't get my attachment to post, but these directions pretty much cover the same material. Good luck.

Oh, and some of the 101 cookie cutter sets at Wal-Mart have animal cookie cutters in them if you want to go that route.

mariak did a cake with some really cute little farm animals... I don't know if they would go on the sides, but maybe she would have some instructions. http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=mariak&cat=0&pos=3

You all are fabulous! Thanks for the suggestions!