Toilet Tissue And Grandson's First Birthday
Decorating By Echooo3 Updated 29 Mar 2010 , 9:29pm by Texas_Rose
My grandson will be turning one on April 10th (first boy in the family in 100 years).
A few weeks ago, my daughter had purchased a 12 pack of toilet tissue, put it down and went into another room to do something and came out and he had opened it and unrolled them and was sitting in a pile of tissue.
Soooo, I would like to re-create that scene for his first birthday cake. Please can I have some suggestions on how to do the toilet tissue? Making the figurine alone will be a challenge but I want to have that image of him sitting in a pile of tissue looking up with his big blue eyes like he was saying "it wasn't me".
Thanks all.
I would roll either fondant or gumpaste super thin...then using a ruler, cut long strips into the size required. I would then use the impression roller and roll lines horizontal to give impression of "toilet paper" separation lines. Use the small tip of either a #1 or #5 and gently press circles randomly to give the "tissue paper" some texture. Before the fondant or gumpaste dries I would stack and drape the toilet paper around the baby figure. I would make the baby first and complete it and then make the toilet paper - that way you would know exactly which way you wanted to drape. I've never done this before but this is what I personally would try.
i think farmersdaughter is right on point...cut strips, do the horizontal lines to look like toilet paper. in order to give the gumpaste/fondant texture to look like toilet paper, you could put a paper towel (not viva 
) over it and roll with your pin. this will emboss it with bumps, etc. i would do this step first, then cut strips, then do the tiny quilting horizontal lines for separators.
maybe use the quilting wheel to imprint the perforations between each square?
this is exactly what I was thinking also, roll your fondant real thin cut long strips same width as toilet paper then mark across with the quilting wheel, would be pretty easily done. Sounds really cute for a cake ......good luck!
should you have a pasta machine, pass fondant through it. you will get fairly thin,long, even lengths too.press a paper towel over.mark sheets with a dressmaking tracing wheel. trim sides and neaten out the edges. good luck. I havent done it myself, but this i what i will do if i had to.
It sounds great. You should make the figure and paper on a board that will sit on top of the cake, so your daughter can save them 
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