Kangaroo Firefighter Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

In the first lesson, Paul explains the reasoning behind making this cake and how to draw the kangaroo design and map out the internal structure.

Paul shows you how to build a solid internal structure using threaded rods, nuts and washers.

In this lesson Paul shows you how to make the stand food safe using tinfoil the goes on to use a slab cake to cut various round cakes for stacking. He then carves out the shape for the body and legs of the kangaroo.

Paul uses the downloadable template to cut out the shapes for the head then ganaches them onto the wooden plate and carves them into the shape of a kangaroo head.

When rolling your sugarpaste out keep in mind to not roll it out too thick and to wet the ganache beforehand so the sugarpaste sticks. To make life easier, Paul adds covers the cake in sections.

Paul sculpts the muzzle, nose and eyes of the kangaroo.

Paul uses 250g of sugarpaste made into a cone to create the feet. He then uses the smoothers and dresden tool for the details. For the helmet, Paul covers a 3inch polystyrene ball cut in half then adds more sugarpaste to get the desired shape.

Very simply, Paul rolls out the ears and he is happy with the shape and size he uses wooden dowels in the helmet to keep them in place.

To make the arms Paul rolls out sugarpaste into a bone shape then tapers it at one end before attaching one to the threaded rod and the other to the body.

There are many ways to make the tail, such as with rice krispie squares or from sugarpaste. Paul goes for a polystyrene tail because it is more secure and takes less time to make.

When making the jacket use panels and don’t worry about the joins as you can make seams to hide them.

In this lesson, Paul shows you how to make and add the cutest little koala bear and joey to the kangaroo!

The main thing about airbrushing is to not be scared to use it, less is more and remember to use a mask to prevent over spraying.

In this lesson, Paul goes over the jacket using the airbrush and remembering to mask the rest of the kangaroo. Paul adds a first coat of yellow then goes over again with light brown to give it a more sandy feel. Once the jacket is finished he then paints the luminous yellow parts using Neon Yellow from Magic Colours.

To switch things up Paul paints the koala using a grey dust.

For finishing touches Paul adds a little extra shadowing around the cake, a little bit of glaze before ending by adding the flag. 

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Everything a pro needs to know about pricing and distribution however for this cake there is no profit, 100% of the donations will go to charity.