Cake Makers how hard would it be to make...

[bytheMoonlight]

A figure out of icing if you have never made one before?

I want to make a 'Mr Tumble' cake topper but have attempted anything with icing before.

Is this unrealistic?

Would appreciate advice

*never attempted

shameless bump

Out of fondant icing? Well, Mr Tumble looks pretty much like your average clown - could you base it on that or just find a clown one in a good cake decorating shop?

Or just do his clown face 2D on top of the cake?

How hard is it to make a figure out of fondant icing Lastyearsmodel?

If you can model with playdough, you should be fine.

sugarpaste clown that look a bit like Mr Tumble here

you could adapt and simplify this

as PT says, if you can model with playdough you can model with sugarpaste - just make sure you use paste not liquid colours to colour the sugarpaste - liquid makes it go sticky

can buy a flat topper here

What purpleturtle said. You can buy it in different colours (colouring small amounts yourself quite faffy and hard to get strong colours without professional gels).

Or don't Asda do photo printing onto cakes?

instructions for a simple Mr Tumble face here

I did want to try and make the figure myself but I didn't know if this was a stupid to try and attempt.

I may get one of those cake toppers just in case it all goes wrong!

So I can buy coloured fondont which I just then shape into the pieces I need.

How do I stick it all together?

Wet the sugarpaste a bit - or for something a bit stronger you can make a sugar glue just by dissolving a little sugarpaste in a small amount of boiling water.

Should I use sugar paste or fondant to make the figure

I use sugarpaste - don't think I've ever used fondant - so I'm not sure of the pros and cons of each.

All I know is that sugarpaste comes in lots of lovely colours from the shop.

Well bright colours is what I need!

How do you do simple expresions for the face?

And how difficult are things like hands to make?

bumping for advice?

Take a look at this - it might give you some ideas.

purpleturtle - that link was fantastic, also watched her other videos and its really given me confidence to have a go at it.

Thanks