I need some help making sesame street characters out of fondant. I saw some really nice ones in the galleries. I just need a little help with the way to make them. I am new to fondant. Any help would be appreciated.
Debbie brown books have some characters... if you like i can scan some and pm them to you.. let me know
Can you post the picture of the characters you made?
Any good advice you can share? I will also be making a cake and need some help with the characters. I want to make them using fondant, not bc.
Anat...I just posted a picture of a sesame cake i made for my niece. I can send you pictures and some instructions of the characters if you would like.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-gallery_display_1314291.html
Vivian
Anat...I just posted a picture of a sesame cake i made for my niece. I can send you pictures and some instructions of the characters if you would like.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-gallery_display_1314291.html
Vivian
would be able to pm me too as I would like to do this for my son 2nd b day in march! Thank u
Vivian,
I'd love to see more pictures of the Sesame Street cake, and to get instructions.
I need to make the cake next week and am starting my planning.
thanks!
Anat
Anat,
Hope this helps. If you need more directions please let me know.
For Oscar:
I made the garbage can first, just rolled some gray fondant into the thickness I needed. At the top I took some of the fondant out with a knife so that I could fit his body in and you would not see a seem. I made the two arms and a small torso and textured it using tip 233 (I think, it's the grass tip with all the little spikes on it). For the head it was easier to roll a ball and texture it and then cut the mouth with a knife. I just used the black food coloring pens to fill in the black of his mouth and a little bit of red fondant for the tongue. For the can lid, I rolled fondant over the top of the wilton food coloring canisters to give me the lid shape.
For Cookie Monster:
I made the head and body out of one piece of fondant and attached the arms and legs separately. To texture it I just used a toothpick lightly to make wavy lines. The cookies I made out of little pieces of brown fondant and used the black food coloring pens to make the "chocolate chips".
For Big Bird:
I made the legs first and let them dry with thoothpicks inserted so that I could attach the body later (I've learned that the weight of the body can distort the shape of the legs sometimes). For the body, I made a tear drop shape and textured it using tip 103 (the wider side). I just made the U shape indentation going all the way around and on a few I pulled up to make the feather look. The same was done for the head and arms.
For Elmo I printed a picture from the internet and traced it with royal icing.
Well, I hope this helped, if not please feel free to e-mail me.
Vivian
Here is a tutorial for Elmo I found and used when I made my Grandson's birthday cake. I found it very helpfull.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=259573
You can also go to the Sculpy Clay website and find other tips for modeling figures.
Thanks Pam and Vivian!
I will post a picture of the cake after the 25th, which is when it will be delivered.
Here is the cake I made
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1321675
I was planning to make more characters, but decided to do only elmo in the end.
Thanks, vivian once again for your help!
anat
Anat...I just posted a picture of a sesame cake i made for my niece. I can send you pictures and some instructions of the characters if you would like.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-gallery_display_1314291.html
Vivian
Can you PM me as well, please. I LOVE your cake and I would like to try it for my son's birthday.
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