How To Make Gumpaste Farm Animals

Decorating By katiecake Updated 24 Jul 2006 , 6:07pm by 7yyrt

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katiecake Posted 22 Jun 2006 , 10:19pm
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Anyone have any tips or books or web sites. I am looking at making a sheep/ lamb and maybe a cow but i dont know how to do it!
thanks

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jmt1714 Posted 23 Jun 2006 , 2:45am
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katie,
this sounds a little dumb, but likely your best bet is getting some gumpaste and a picture of the animal in the pose you want and just start playing around. you'll be surprised at how good you will do. Don't worry about color - you do that later with food coloring and/or petal dust. Just use your basic tools and your hands and think of it as play-dough

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leily Posted 24 Jun 2006 , 12:05pm
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I would suggest searching the web or craft stores for instructions on sculpting with sculpey clay. They have tones of books out their for scupling out of clay and the process is the same with gumpaste or fondant.

HTH

Leily

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MessiET Posted 25 Jun 2006 , 12:33am
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I made a cake with squirrels for my son. I found this great website that sells marzipan figures. It might give you some ideas. HTH.

http://www.marzipanworld.com/acatalog/Marzipan_World_Animal_Themes_542.html

This is what I put on my son's cake:
LL

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aggiecakes Posted 25 Jun 2006 , 4:43am
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I just made a cow cake with cows made from MMF. There are great directions at pastrywiz.com. They are step by step. I only saw directions for cows, not other farm animals. This will maybe get you started. I have my cow cake posted in my photo section. It was time consuming, but I thought they turned out okay. Good luck!

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paxpuella Posted 25 Jun 2006 , 4:36pm
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I did a search on this in cake central last night just to see what I could come up with. I am curious too as to how to make the figurines. I found where someone posted this site and I saved it to my favorites. Perhaps you might find something in here that would help.

http://www.sculpey.com/projects_figures.htm

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JanH Posted 25 Jun 2006 , 4:44pm
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paxpuella,

What a neat website.....

But I must resist, not another hobby!!!!!

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7yyrt Posted 24 Jul 2006 , 6:07pm
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JanH- It's not another hobby --IT'S CAKE DECORATING! icon_lol.gif

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