Fondant Animals

The Koala!

   I went to my assessor’s house today and we were going to work on making cute sugarpaste animals. She laid out various coloured sugarpaste on the table and handed me a book on how to make animals. My sister is going to Australia this summer and I saw several Australian themed animals in the book so I spent a few hours making different Australian animals.

   First of all I made a koala bear and he went ok! The icing cracked but I think it is because I coloured it myself. I made his egg shaped body first before the arms and legs and finally the features. His ears were the hardest because they kept falling off despite the glue and spaghetti to hole him together!

my 3 snakes

The tiny pieces of the snake

   Next I made three snakes by rolling out sausages of red, yellow and black. I cut the sausages into segments and them mixed the colours up and attached them with glue! For the heads, I took a pea sized amount of icing an rolled it into a flat carrot shape before scoring a mouth with a knife, putting nostrils in with spaghetti and tiny black eyes.

The kangaroo looked quite similar!

   Then I made an orange kangaroo. His body and tail were all moulded out of one piece of fondant so it was quite difficult to manipulate the icing. Then I attached a pouch, rolled up his legs and stuck the arms on. I finished with a carrot shaped head, little black eyes and nose and orange ears.

   Lastly I thought I would make a crocodile. His body was one piece of icing and it manipulated better than I expected. His eyes were very fun to make because they were three circles layered on top of each other and cut in half. Lastly I stuck his legs on and he was finished!

The finished crocodile

I had to manipulate the fondant piece