How to make Minion Figurines tutorial - minion figurine cake toppers step by step

MINIONS! I love them! They were the best part of the Despicable Me movies, so glad they finally have their own movie! I've always loved receiving Minion cake orders, hope I get to make some more this year now that their movie is coming out.

This is probably my most popular Despicable Me Minion cake.

This pink design with the middle minion picking off the daisy petals.

"She loves me, she loves me now".

I've made a minion tutorial to show you how I make my minion figurines for cake toppers.  If you scale the minion  figurine a bit smaller, you can also follow the tutorial to make minion figurines for cupcakes as well.

In this tutorial, I made 3 different minions to show you different styles to make... short, tall, with standing legs or sitting legs, and no legs, different eye exprssions and hair styles too. 

HOW TO MAKE A

MINION FIGURINE CAKE TOPPER

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Little Mermaid Cake with Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian edible toppers

Hey everyone! I made this Little Mermaid cake 2 weekends ago.

It was a super busy weekend, as I had 4 cakes with 21 figurines in total to make.

So glad it's over haha!

This is my Ariel, she's made out of gumpaste, what do you guys think? :)

This is the me making Sebastian figurine, he's also made out of gumpaste.

Here's the finished Little Mermaid cake, flounder was also handmade and out of gumpaste. :)

Happy Caking everyone!

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Cute Hippo Figurine Tutorial, with Fondant/Gumpaste

 HOW TO MAKE A CUTE HIPPO CAKE TOPPER

CUTE HIPPO FIGURINE TUTORIAL

WITH FONDANT, GUMPASTE OR CLAY

1. Roll the gumpaste into an oval shape, use the side of the mini rolling pin or your finger, to push the top smaller so you have the bottom part wider as the hippo's nose and mouth.

2. It should look like this, the top part is smaller than the bottom.

3. Make a small oval shape for the body, and secure a toothpick inside to attach the head on later. I made the body smaller than the head, I think it's cuter that way, but you can do it any size you'd like.

4. For the ears, use two different size circle cutters.

5. With water, glue the ear pieces together. With an exacto knife, trim a bit off at the bottom of the ears so it's a flat surface to flue onto the head.

6. For the eyes, make two of each - white tear drop shape, then pink circle, and a smaller purple circle.

7. Attach all the eye pieces together, with the colored pieces at the point of the teardrop. Trim off at pieces that are sticking out.

8. Glue the ears and eyes onto the hippo's head.

9. With a large circle cutter, press it into the bottom of the head to make the smile. 

10. With an exacto knife, make the smile brackets on both sides.

11. With a round ball tool, push in two dents for the nose. Roll out pink fondant really thin and cut out 2 circles that would fit into the dents.

12. Glue them into the nostrils.Push them in with a ball tool.

13. Make 2 small triangular shapes for the legs, with exacto knife, mark where the toes are.

14. Do the same for the arms, except they are slightly longer than the legs.

15. Use a small circle cutter to cut out white fondant, use an exacto knife to cut the circles in half.

16. Glue the white pieces at the end of the arms and legs. Attach the body onto the two legs.

17. Assemble the arms.

18. Put the head on, you're done! :) 

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Mickey Mouse Figurine Tutorial - Fondant Cake Decorating

How to make a Mickey Mouse Figurine!

How to make the perfect Mickey Mouse figurine!

(The figurine you see here is the one I made for the tutorial.) 

Hey everyone, I know a lot of ppl wanted to know how to make an edible Mickey Mouse figurine with fondant or gumapste, myself included! He's one of the most challenging characters to create in 3D for cakes.  I figured out a way to make the snout, so I recorded it for a tutorial.

I hope it's helpful!

This is my Mickey Mouse Figurine tutorial! :)

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Cute Totoro Cake!

Totoro Cake, based on the movie My Neighbor Totoro

  (Japanese: となりのトトロ) directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

 I remember watching this movie in the theatres as a kid :).

Surfs Up Cake!

Here's my Surfs Up Theme Cake!

I've actually never watched the movie before, but feels like I have, 

after staring at the pictures of the characters for over 5 hours haha!

I made the characters Cody Maverick, Chicken Joe, Lani, Tank, Reggie and BigZ 

out of gumpaste, they are all entirely edible!

 My Surfs Up Cake!

Close up of BigZ figurine.

Close up of Tank, Chicken Joe and Reggie figurines.

Happy Caking everyone :)

The Lego Movie Cupcakes (in the making)

Just when I was finishing up the fourth Lego Movie character, I noticed the sun beaming right at them.
It's as if they suddenly came to life. I grabbed my camera and tried to get a good shot.

Can't wait til I make all the characters... Emmet, Benny, the whole gang!

More Despicable Me Cakes!

Hello :)

If anyone had noticed, I am no longer TheCakingGirl.com :(... I lost the domain and been trying to gain it back, I made an offer, hopefully they (whoever the new owner is) will be understanding and give the name back to me.  I'm still TheCakingGirl.  But it's no longer dot com. it's dot ca.

Why did I call myself TheCakingGirl anyways.. well, about 4 years ago, when I first started making cakes, I was pretty bad at it but I wanted to get better, and I really enjoyed it, so I made as many cakes as I can for free for people, so I can practice.  My friends were calling/texting me asking why I can't go out, what am I so busy doing.  I got tired of typing that I'm busy making a cake, learning how to decorate etc, I simply replied, "I'm caking,". I made cake into a verb lol. Cause that's what I was doing, I was Caking.

So I called myself  The Caking Girl.
I see that term being used in other cake forums now :) yes, it's a verb, it's a hobby, it's a career, it's a life.
I'm also aware that Caking has another urban dictionary meaning. Haha. ;)

Anyways, now that I sorta sorted out the domain name situation, I want to blog more. I hope you enjoy my blogs, altho I don't write as much, and it's mainly visuals. I plan to write more.

Take care, talk soon!


Making another despicable me cake...

My edible gumpaste figurines lying out to dry.

One of many gumpaste minions I've made the past couple of years.  I love making minions, now that I'm familiar with which circle cutters to use for the eyes, and how to make the overalls, I'm pretty fast at it now!

Here's the cake put together! Each character are to represent someone, that's why there's a Michelin man, a cat, initial letters and benz logo.

How to make Gumpaste Figurines

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One of my fave caking thing to do is mould gumpaste figurines! 

I still haven't tried using sculpting chocolate yet (it's more pricey), but I've heard great things about it, so far gumpaste work well for me :). I'm sticking with gumpaste.

One thing that bugs me most about custom cakes, is when the figurine doesn't look like the real thing.  If it doesn't look right, I rip the parts off and remake it over, and over again until I get the ratios and scales right :) I am quite obsessed with getting my figurines spot on. 

Sometimes even without having to remake any parts, one figurine can take up to an hour to make or longer. 

Here are some of my tips on making gumpaste figurines:

1. Don't rush it. Make it a few days before your cake is due, if you're rushing the figurine, it won't look good! I used to save the figurine making for last, and it would stress me out as that's all I'm thinking about when I'm making the rest of the cake. Never again. I always make my figurines first, and on a day I have a few hours to dedicate myself to it.

2. Get a good reference.  Go online, go on google or other search engines, and find a good picture to use as reference.  Print it onto paper and have it with you when you work.  It's best to get a front view and a profile view of the figurine.  If it's a 2D cartoon character, and you have trouble envisioning it as 3D, try to google the keyword with "doll" after it.  That way, you can find pictures of it in a 3D doll form, that helps a lot! Sometimes I borrow my daughter's toys, when I make Mickey Mouse gumpaste figurines.. or Winnie the Pooh gumpaste figurines.. Dora, Cat in the Hat, etc.

3. Detail is everything.  Get an exacto knife, you'll need it to make the small details.  Notice all the small details, even if it's a very thin black line over the top eyelid of the character, include it. It makes a difference in the result.  I also bought sculpting tools, clay tools and plastercine tools from fine art stores as well.

4. Give it time to dry.  Sometimes the figurine will have to take a break.  If it needs to dry over night, let it.  Structure is everything!

5. Accuracy.  Try your best to examine the proportions and scales.  I use my fingers or the blade of my exacto knife to measure parts of the figurine.  You can also compare parts of the figurine to itself.  For example, width of eye = half of the nose width, distance between eye and nose = same distance as eye to eyebrow.   

6. Don't forget colors.  Even if you get all your proportions/scales of the parts right, if the color is slightly off, it affects the entire outcome.  Don't be afraid to mix the food colors a bit.  For example, I never use Wilton's Rose Pink color on it's own, I always add a bit of Wilton's Burgundy, even if it's a tiny micro amount.  It 'normalizes' the rose pink for me, with it on it's own, the hue is too strong.

Here are some of the gumpaste figurines I made this year.

Stewie Cake! 

 

Three Stewie gumpaste figurines... cause one is not enough :)

Meet Mike the Knight, this guy's funny proportions gave me a headache lol...

Sorry for the phone picture quality! This is from my Instagram :)

 

Here's the Despicable Me Cake!

This was probably the cake that required the most gumpaste figurine labor! :D

Happy Moulding Everyone!!

and here are some pictures from my recent trip to Paris :)

 

  

My First Tumblr Set: Calvin and Hobbes Cake!

My first attempt at making a Tumblr set! What do you guys think? My limited cropping/measuring skills on Photoshop lol.

Anyone remember Calvin and Hobbes? They're a popular 90s comic strip! 
I made this Calvin and Hobbes cake last week, she wanted something "whimsical" so I went on google to look for some Calvin and Hobbes inspiration.. I saw this image of them crossing the river and thought it was perfect!

This cake was quite challenging as I couldn't find any 3D Calvin and Hobbes toys or dolls anywhere online to use as reference.. so I tried my best to imagine what they would look like if they were 3D. I had to mold them to a scale/proportion where they wouldn't look too weird at a different angle.  I had trouble with the tiger.. I had to remake his head a couple of times.  
I started the background of the cake with white fondant and then painting onto the fondant after letting the fondant dry a bit.  Calvin and Hobbes are made from colored gumpast.

The person who had requested this cake was super happy with it!