Last week, I spent most of my time working on custom orders, and I have some yummy-looking photos to share with you, along with tips for making larger, hollow clay foods.
For starters, here’s a little carrot cake bracelet that I sculpted for a customer. The cake slices are alternated with little fork charms, each with a bite of cake and cream cheese frosting. Yumm.
Next up, I finished sculpting a second American Girl Valentine’s Day cake (see the first one here) with a checkerboard interior and lots of pretty fondant hearts.
When you’re making polymer clay pieces as large as this (the cake is close to 3″ tall), you don’t want to make a cake of solid clay. The baking time would be loooong, and it would be nearly impossible to get the center to cure properly without burning the surface. Not to mention, you’d be using a lot of pricey clay.
Instead, you will make a cardboard cake form packed with aluminum foil to hold the structure, and then you cover the form with sheets of polymer clay. I show how to use this technique in detail in a free American Girl gingerbread house tutorial that you can access here.
January 31, 2014 at 6:09 pm
Fantastic as usual. I should only look at your posts when I’m not hungry. They seriously make me want to eat a piece of cake. Love the hearts on the outside of the cake.
January 31, 2014 at 7:23 pm
Thanks, Diane! š And I can relate–I spend all day either looking at food photos or sculpting food, so I’m no stranger to mad cravings. š