Roly-Poly Harry Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Preparing your board for your cake is important for health and safety and Dot will show you a clever trick to save on cake when cutting a circular design.

In this lesson, Dot shows you how to carve your cat body shape and place it on your board for maximum drama.

It’s very important to seal your cake for freshness and in this lesson Dot shows you how she uses chocolate to crumb coat and create a smooth and hard surface to sculpt on.

Dot uses kitchen materials to create the legs and tail of the cat. This is an easy way that takes away the stresses of hardware products and unfamiliar tools and gives you confidence to try structure in your cakes.

Dot shows you how to create movement and interest when sculpting the four legs in different positions then you’ll create realistic paws and tail movement.

Here Dot shows you how to create the cat face from the inside out. Starting with a polystyrene ball, Dot creates the eye sockets, eye brow bones, bridge of the nose and other face details as a base to cover with a fondant ‘skin’.

Dot shows you how to cover your sculpted head base with fondant and create the details of the nose, mouth and chin. Dot will also show you how to sculpt the ears and the correct positioning in relation to the cat’s eyes.

Always the crucial part of any realistic sculpt, the eyes are an important element in convincing your audience of what you’ve created. Dot will show you step by step how to create a realistic cat eye that’s easy and ‘eye-catching’!

Having sculpted the head off the cake body to make it easier to create the details, Dot will show you how to sculpt the neck and attach the cat’s head in a playful position with the ears on the board.

With the twist in the cat’s body as he plays, it’s important to create the fur in a way that gives direction and texture to your cake. Dot will add pieces of fondant and using tools, create texture that adds to the movement you created with the sculpting. This final fur layer also ‘fattens’ up the cat to create the final shape.

Without changing the shape of the cat’s face, Dot adds some fine fur detail to the face and neck to complete the texture and bring it all together for the final details.

Using cocoa butter to paint is a wonderful way to layer colours. They blend easily and take time to dry and set. Dot starts by painting the cute nose and then outlining the eyes and  other face details. She continues with some ginger stripes laying colours showing techniques to create realistic fur and texture.

Using cocoa butter to layer colours and create ginger stripes, Dot begins by circling the legs and moving on to the body. Each colour is laid on other colours and brushed to create a realistic finish.

There’s always some little details that can finish the cake off and make a perfect finish. Here Dot shows you how to add a cute pink tongue in the mouth, a white dot in the eyes and then finally add wire whiskers to the face.

Dot provides some other ideas to use on your own designs.

Dot has some professional tips to take this design to a unique level.