Skating Penguin Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

In this lesson, Rose shows us how to form the shape of the body and legs from the two eight-inch round cakes. The key is to cut little bits at a time and keep spinning and moving the cake making sure that you are keeping things equal.

In this lesson, Rose combines the dome cakes to form the shape of the head and then gets carving.

Rose covers the body with a large piece of sugarpaste and shows us how to join it all up without any trace of joins. Then it’s time to get busy with a small pair of scissors.

Now we see the little penguin come to life as Rose adds the facial features including the eyes and beak.

Here, Rose created the beak of the penguin and shows us how to blend it into the face as well as add some realism using modelling tools.

Rose adds the flippers using straws to keep them in place and then textures them to match the body.

Rose first of all adds a cute little tongue using some coloured sugarpaste and with the same sugarpaste creates the feet. She then creates some simple skates which the feet sit on then are set aside to dry before getting the airbrush out.

You’ll be pleased to know that there is only one airbrush colour used and it’s all about creating shades around the body. If you don’t have an airbrush it will be difficult to get the same kind of results but you could use a large flush brush and dab on some dry dust.

Rose now gets the dusts and paintbrushes out to help bring the penguin to life by painting it’s eyes.

Rose shows us how to cover the board around the penguin which is actually quite tricky and time-consuming. You could cover the board before adding the penguin but the risk you run is getting it covered in paint when it comes to airbrushing and so on.

In this final lesson, Rose paints the skates and then makes the cute little fish for the board complete with it’s own little scarf.

Paul shares some other ideas you can try out during this project. We’re sure you’ve some of your own, and we’d love to see what brilliant alterations you’ve made.

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Paul shares some insider information about the cost to make this cake. He also shares his advice on pricing, portions and other vital information necessary for any professional cake designer.