Edible Sugar Art

Well we couldn’t let Easter pass without bringing in the sloth! Check out this free Easter Sloth Tutorial and if you make your own feel free to share with me!

For this tutorial you can use fondant or modeling chocolate. Or a mixture of both. I used Satin Ice Choco pan and Satin Ice fondant mixed together. You can do this without the Choco pan. If you are using Choco pan remember it gets a little warmer and softer with your warm hands. It will set back up nicely when you stop touching it.

I used Satin Ice Fondant in brown and mixed it with white Choco Pan to create a lighter shades. I also used the teal, green and pink Satin Ice and mixed it with White to make it lighter.

I used Styrofoam balls to make the top lighter in weight and to save product. You can do this without the balls and just use more Satin Ice. The size that you want to make your topper will determine the size of balls that you use. Are used a 1 inch and TWO 1-1/2 inch foam balls.

 These work great for building figures!

I am using one of the larger balls and a smaller ball on top join together with toothpicks. You can also add a drop of hot glue to make it more secure if you would like. Just use your hands to roll out the brown color fondant you will be using and make a log to fill in the empty space between the two balls and make it even. Then roll out another piece of brown large enough to wrap around the two balls. Wrap it around the balls seal it together and trim off any excess. Then just use your hands to smooth it into a oval egg shape.

Now take the second large ball and  roll out a piece of fondant large enough to cover it, and wrap it around the ball. Trim off any excess and roll it into a smooth round ball. I like to roll mine slightly oval. The two oval ends will be the cheek area. So when you’re looking at the topper from the front, the face is a little wider than it is tall. Now take the second large ball and roll out a piece of fondant large enough to cover it. Wrap it around the ball. Trim off any excess and roll it into a smooth round ball. I like to roll mine slightly oval. The two oval ends will be the cheek area. So when you’re looking at the topper from the front the face is a little wider than it is tall.

Use a Dressen tool, toothpick, knife or other tool to score the texture of fur marks into all the pieces. You can use a heart shape cutter if you have one the correct size for the face or cut out a circle in the light tan and then cut away the excess to make a heart. This will go on the face. I use the same tool to score around the edges and blend it into the darker brown. Then I just take a small ball of brown and flatten it with my fingers into a tear shaped placing it. Place it on the heart in a slightly downward direction at the corners.

I like to use the bottom of a round piping tip to create the mouth. And then I use a toothpick to open it up in the center just slightly pulling down. I make a little hole at each corner of the mouth. Take a tiny piece of pink and flatten it with my fingers and use the toothpick to insert it into the mouth. Then use the toothpick to secure the head.

Next just take the accent color of your choice, I am using a mint green. Shape it into a small egg shape with a flat back. Use a little bit of water or your edible glue to attach it to the belly.

Next roll out a little white and trim the ends to make a headband. Use a little water or edible glue to attach it to the head. To make the ears I just made a teardrop shape in white and placed another pink teardrop shape inside it or used mobile tool to hollow out the center.

Since the second ear is standing up, I secured it with a toothpick. I rolled a little white ball for a bunny tail and attached it with edible glue and gave it some texture using a star piping tip.

I made a few little leaves and flowers to add to the headband and a little bow for the neck. You can do this using molds or you can do it freehand.

We finish it off by making a cute little Easter basket. I cut out a circle using a larger piping tip end. I then rolled three lines of fondant and pinched them at the top and then braided them down. I added a little glue to the round base and wrapped a braid around the outside edge. Trim off the excess. For the handle I took one roll of fondant and twisted it and added it with a little glue to the inside of the basket. I then made little balls for colored Easter eggs and added them inside the basket.

And that’s it! You have your very own sloth bunny ready to steal candy and take all your eggs! Let me know if you try to make this and share a pic at www.facebook.com/ediblesugarart For a chance at being featured.

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Amaranthus flowers, also called “love lies bleeding” or “flaming fountain” make a beautiful additional to any bridal bouquet. They create a very full and cascading look. The can be used to create gorgeous hanging flower displays, cascading bouquets, grand center pieces that are over flowing, and today we are going to make a sugar version to add this beautiful flower to our cake!

The deep red color of the Amaranthus is perfect for moody fall weddings, woodland inspired designs, romantic fairy tale inspired events, a mid summers night dream tablescrapes and so much more. The gorgeous color and texture makes it stand out and be noticed.

Today I wanted to make a sugar version to accent a semi naked cake with ombre burgundy gum paste roses. After using a tutorial from Pamela to make this black velvet texture cake shown here, I knew just how I wanted to create the fuzzy texture of this flower. You can find Pamela Janes tutorial here: http://www.cakewithpamelajane.com/tag/wafer-paper-velvet/

To start off I first made the shapes creating long thin “worms” of burgundy gum paste. I created my color mixing half satin ice Burgundy fondant with half satin ice gum paste. I rolled them out and inserted floral wire through the center. I bent it while still soft to create a flowing look. I also made sure that the “worms” were bumpy. Leaving texture on them as apposed to making them smooth.

I created some that did not have wire in them as well incase I wanted to add one somewhere I couldn’t safely attach the wire.

I left them to dry over night.

I took Icing Images wafer paper and tore it into pieces and placed those inside my blender. A coffee grinder is also great for this. I ground it up into an almost fine powder but still leaving a little texture and small pieces of paper.

Next I added Roxy & Rich color dust in Burgundy and mixed for a second more. I add a little at a time until I had my desired color. Fyi, it doesn’t take much!

 I poured the wafer paper powder out on a plate and then I used a little bit of gylecerian to wet the ”wired worms.” I was going to use a spray bottle with a little watered down corn syrup which I believe would work great but alas this day my spray bottle was missing. The glycerin just so happened to be the first thing I saw when I went looking for it and I decided to just use my fingers to rub a little on and then dip into the wafer paper dust.

After I dipped them, I placed the remaining wafer paper back into the mixer and I ground it up a little finer. Then I took the “worms”, which now resemble the Amaranthus, and gently pushed them into the finer powder for an extra coat.

I was amazed at how beautiful the turned out and how easy they were! Check them out on this cake Below!!! They went beautiful with our ombre sugar roses and ferns!

I will definitely be doing more of these in the future! If you need a great cake recipe to use these on, be sure to check out http://ediblesugarart.com/recipe/ultimate-rich-chocolate-cake/