How To Make A Sugar Animal

So now, we're going to show you how to do sugar paste animals. We're going to make, in this instance, a cat. So what you're going to need is sugar paste in a variety of colors.

We're going to need white for the body, a bit of black, some gray, pink, a little bit of red, and a tiny bit of purple for the nose. So first, you're going to start off with the head. If you get the sugar paste so that it's not really cold, it'll be a lot easier to handle.

So, roll in into the size of head that you want and that'll depend on the size of your cake. And now for the body, you might need to knead it a bit to get the right shape and you'll want to make sure it's in proportion to the head. If you do need to add more, just make sure that you reshape it so that don't get creases showing in the body.

You can give it a bit of a neck and a little bit thicker toward the back, like a real cat. So now, we're going to tear off a bit more for some limbs and the tail. The tail, next, so again like a real cat, you're going to want to make it a little bit thinner toward the end.

You can go ahead and attach that. And a nice little curl. Add some good detail.

Now, gray for the eyes, just roll into very small balls and it's okay if they're not the actual size, in proportion for a cat, because it'll just make your cat a little bit more expressive which is nice for the top of the cake. You're going to go ahead and attach those which some gentle taps, to make sure that they're going to adhere and not fall off once the head's attached. A little bit of black for the pupils, it can be a little bit tricky to work with such small quantities, but you'll get the hang of it.

Then, just attach those to the eyes. Now, you attach with two small white balls. You're going to make the base of the mouth and then you're going to cut in some whiskers using a sharp knife.

Now, you have your head. So now the nose, a bit of purple, again, just roll that in the palm of your hand. Again, it doesn't have to be in proportion, because your cat would look very friendly with big features, and now for the ears.

Again, pinch off a bit more of the white to make sure your balls are the same size so you'll have even ears and just a little bit of a pinch into kind of a triangular shape and then you'll want just a tiny bit of pink for the inside of the ear. And then you're going to repeat the same for the other ear. There you go and then you can attach the ears to the top of the head.

Now, a little bit of red for a tongue. And just for that little detail, put a little crease in there for the crease on the tongue. Good and you can attach your head and now we're going to just put some simple limbs.

And you'll find with sugar paste animals that you don't want to actually stand on the limbs because the weight of the body is quite heavy, so you'll just want to make kind of an idea of some limbs and attach those without counting on the whole thing being suspended on the limbs. So again, you've got two equal-sized balls of sugar paste, and then you can just make little marks for the paws, the little nails. This is going to be a friendly cat, we're not going to actually have nails sticking out though, right? There we go.

That'll be great for a little girl's birthday or even just an adult cat lover. .