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Sugar Dog
with Paul Bradford
Skill level:
Easy Cake Decorating | Cakeflix - Beginner Level Courses
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1. Lesson 1
Paul takes us through each step to make the perfect little pup out of sugarpaste, which can be used as a cake or cupcake topper for a dog lover.
The Sugar Dog model tutorial is perfect for learning to make a variety of different dog breeds. The skills learnt can easily be adapted to allow for different thickness of coats, change in colour, size and features to create the perfect pup to add to a cake or cupcake.
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Sugarpaste
- 200g Chocolate Brown
- 10g White
Other
- Spaghetti
Cake Card and Drum
- 6″ Round Card
Cakey Tools
- PME Modeling Tools
- Small Knife
- Black Food Pen
Paul Bradford
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this lesson has really helped me with trying to start a business of baking and decorating and modelling was not a strong point and no i am much more confident after watching this tutorial
Hi Millie, thank you for getting in touch and for your kind comments, it is truly appreciated! So glad you are more confident:-) I hope you find many more of our tutorials helpful!
Thanks, Danielle x
im lovely all your courses only using the free ones for now but once i start to bake ill be upgrading to the pay ones keep up the good work thank you so much poppyann x
Thank you for your lovely feedback and its great to hear that you are enjoying the tutorials. Please let me know if you have any questions at all.
Kind regards
David
im lovely all your courses. But I love to see your make a 3D horse & 3D train
Thanks for your comments. I’ll put these suggestions to Paul at our next planning meeting which is this Friday. We appreciate your suggestions which helps us hugely.
Love the way you Tutor it’s simple and affective thank I have learned so much thank you kindly
Thank you. Amazing tutorial.
Loving every tutorial, learning a lot from them , thank you so much ?
when you make these kind of figurines are they made with just sugar paste, or do they have some CMC to harden?
It largely depends on how much drying time you have. If you can leave it overnight then sugarpaste is fine otherwise best to add CMC.
can i use plainflour in dusting my fondant when rolling instead of cornflour
Hi AdeoyeTitilayo
Not a good idea to use plain flour as it contains much bigger grains and absorbs far greater volume of moisture. Your fondant will have large patches of flour marks and it will become dry and cracked. If you don’t have cornflour, use a little white vegetable fat on your work surface or roll the fondant out between two pieces of silicone/parchement paper. Icing sugar is the other alternative. 🙂
Hi,
If I wanted to make this as a wedding cake topper, how far in advance should I/can I make it?
So long as the model is kept in a cool and dry environment it should keep 6 months or more.
However, it will look its best between 1-21 days.
Thank you
Are there any disadvantages to doing this using polymer clay instead?
It will work in exactly the same way. If you are using it as a decoration for a cake, make sure that it’s foodsafe i.e. the clay is not directly touching the cake.
Hi,
I finally got round to making this and I’m really happy with the result; thank you. It’s my first time doing anything like it, can you advise how to store it – it’s very hot at the moment so not sure where to put it! Thanks in advance.
Hi Roisin,
Well done on making the sugar dog, especially in this hear when so many cake decorators are struggling! Keep up the good work x
I am new at making models so it would be useful to know approx. weight of sugarpaste for the body and head, perhaps this could be added to beginner tutorials? I find it hard getting the proportions right. Great tutorial though and has given me the confidence to make one of these for my nieces birthday which is coming up…she loves animals.
Hi Sharon, sorry that the weights weren’t given in our early tutorials. The sugar dog was filmed 8 years ago and we soon found that weights were important, especially for anyone starting out. Our more recent tutorials have the weights and sizes. Using the dog tutorial it will take a bit of trial and error to get the proportions without the weights, but it may be helpful in the long run. Please contact me on [email protected] if you have any questions at all.