In a time and age when wedding and birthday parities have become unwieldy and complex, it is but natural to suppose that the spotlight is on the garb of the couple or birthday girl or boy or perhaps the choice of location for the celebration.
However with cake boutiques burgeoning around the country, the cake has now become the focal point of such festivities.
While many cakes today are topped with flowers, there is something to be said about the traditional cake toppers – they are a keepsake that serves as a wonderful memento from your special day long after the last slice of cake is gone.
A miniature model which sits on top of a cake, cake toppers can be customized to suit any occasion. This cute ballerina topper would make the day of a little girl who will be celebrating her birthday.
You can use fondant/gumpaste or air dry clay to model this ballerina. If you use air dry clay, it can be kept as an ornament as well.
LEGS
1. Roll a piece of skin colour paste into a sausage.
2. Stroke and thin the places where the back of the knee and ankle should be.
3. Thinly roll out some pink paste and cut out a big ‘V’ shape to form the ballerina shoes (from Tool number 1).
4. Roll out the pink paste and cut out 3 stripes to make the shoe ribbons (from Tool number 1).
5. Paste the ballerina shoe and the ribbons.
6. Repeat the same to make the other leg.
7. Roll out a bit of paste to form a ball and paste both legs horizontally.
TUTU
8. Thinly roll out some pink paste and cut out two circles (approx. 6 cm in diameter).
9. Take one circle at a time and roll the Tool number 4 around the edge to frill it.
10. Place both of them on the hip.
11. insert a toothpick across the circles and the hip.
TORSO and ARMS
12. Roll a slight teardrop shape out of pink paste to form the torso and insert through the toothpick.
13. Roll a piece of skin colour paste to form the neck and insert through the toothpick.
14. Roll a piece of skin colour paste into a sausage.
15. Stroke and thin the places where the elbow and wrist should be.
16. Flatten the area where the hand should be.
17. Cut a triangle out to separate the thumb from the other fingers (from Tool number 1).
18. Repeat the same to make the other arm.
19. Fix both arms to the torso.
HEAD
20. Roll a ball out of skin colour paste and flatten it a bit.
21. Make the mouth by pressing Tool number 3.
22. Make the eye sockets using Tool number 2.
23. Roll out two black balls and paste in the eye sockets.
24. Draw the eye lashes.
25. Draw a tiny white dot in each eye.
26. Insert the head through the toothpick.
27. Colour the cheeks using red dust
HAIR and EARS
28. Roll out some black paste and cut a circle to cover the back of the head.
29. Create the hair texture using Tool number 5.
30. Roll out two pieces of black paste to form the fringes, create the texture as above and paste it at the sides.
31. Roll out some black paste to form the bun, create the texture as above and paste it on the top of the head.
32. Thinly roll out some pink colour paste to make a bow and a ribbon and paste it around the bun.
33. Roll out two tiny skin colour paste to form the ears and paste them at the sides of the head.
34. Roll out to two tiny pink colour paste to form the ear rings and paste them on the ears.
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