How to Make Fondant Figures Step By Step Guide…Everything Revealed!
Learn the secrets and skills to perfectly smooth proportionate fondant figures for your cakes
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4 FREE Modelling Tutorials
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Materials and Mastering Modelling Tools
Duration: 20minute
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We need to strip it back to basics and set the right foundations for making fondant figures. You’ll need to know the right mediums to use. How and when we use fondant, modelling, and gum paste and how we work the paste to avoid and dry cracking models. I’ll also teach you how to use your modelling tools properly and how I use each end of the tools showing you how to model and shape with them.
Learning how to model basic shapes
Duration: 20minute
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Now that we have mastered our materials and modelling tools, it’s time to learn to use your hands as tools! Understanding the different parts of your hands and fingers to use can create simple, seamless shapes. This step is so often overlooked, which can result in your figures having sausage-like arms and legs. Every body part starts with a beautiful, crease-free simple shape, and it’s important to perfect these before progressing through the steps to create fondant figures.
Creating Figures Step by Step Guide ‘lifelike body parts
Duration: 45minute
Video, weights and Templates
Now that we have mastered modelling shapes, it’s time to move on to the next stage. Taking these fondant shapes, we’ll proceed through the steps to create a body part. In this module, we move from a round ball to a tapered sausage and then step by step through a template and video to create a leg! Cool, huh? This will seriously boost your confidence and show you just how possible it really is! We will then make a simple head shape on the neck and shoulders. I’ll teach you how to manipulate and control the paste to stay where you need it, to create the hair for your figurines
How To Make a Full Fondant Figure Tutorial
Duration: 1 hour
Video, weights and Templates
We have learned our materials, mastered our tools, shapes, and the process; now it’s time to put it into action and bring it all together to create a fondant figure. Step by step through video, weights, and a template, you’re going to see a huge difference now when you create, seeing how all the lessons have brought you to this stage. You’ll be putting it all into practice as I guide you through making this very cute sleeping baby figure.”