I'm working on some decorations for a friend's son's SEAL bday cake. She was going to try ad find a bunch of little plastic seals, but I told her I'd happily make them. So, what do you think would be best to make seals? I've worked with both Marzipan (which I think would be too gooey, especially outside in the summer) and Fondant (which I just used to make a ton of safari/jungle animals for my daughter). What about gum paste? Does it work the same way, just harder?
Thanks!
I was thinking about that, but I don't have nearly as much experience piping, plus I'm not actually making the cake. It was already ordered. I just offered to do the seals because the little boy wanted all the kids to have a seal and she couldn't find enough little figurines.
If I piped something, could it harden so that I could add them to the cake later? Could they be in different positions, so they don't all look the same?
Thanks!
I would make them from fondant and maybe add a touch of tylose to them. That's what I do for all of my modeled figures (I think it's one teaspoon tylose to 1lb fondant). The tylose makes it "like" gumpaste, in that they dry hard, but it gives a longer working period which is perfect for modeling figures.
Nope, Michaels doesn't carry it. Do you have any cake supply stores where you live? My cake store up here in WA carries it. I know you can order it on line from Nicholas Lodge's site and also from Global Sugar Art. If you can't find it you can do it from just fondant but let them dry really good. They will stronger with the tylose added but in a pinch you can make them without it. I've done that too.
Hmmm, both of those sites charge twice as much in shipping as the product costs. I hate that. No cake store around here anymore. All the mom and pop places have been going out of business. I wonder if any of the bakeries use it...maybe they'll sell me a tiny bit.
Otherwise, thanks for the ideas. I'm sure they'll be fine anyway.
Oh that's too bad that there aren't any local cake supply places. Maybe take a look at those sites and see if there are some cake toys you want too! 
Toys! Toys! Toys! You might also want to send an email to Carol Webb at Elegant Lace Molds (she is in Oregon too) she might know where you can buy some or may have some to sell(she carries a lot of items that are not on her website and she is so sweet and helpful!).
If not, really they will be fine without it. Just give it plnety of time to dry. I made a cake with some figures on it for a shower and realized afterwards that I forgot to add the tylose and they were fine (the only real difference is I noticed they seemed more fragile so just give them plenty of time to dry). HTH!
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