SCHOOL OF CAKECRAFT
Meet Sid!
Free Mini Tutorial!
Tools and equipment!
Gel Colours- (Sugarflair)
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Dark Brown = Brown - Shell and light brown spots and swirls.
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Liquorice = Black - Eyes
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Ivory = cream - Antennae
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Eucalyptus - Darkest green spots.
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Melon yellow and a touch of liquorice - Dark green.
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Melon yellow and a touch of Eucalyptus to make light green.
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Sugarflair edible tint -
Dusky pink
Modelling Paste-
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- 60g Dark Brown
- 20g Light green
- 10g Bright green
- 2g Dark green
- 2g Light brown
- 1g White
- 1g Ivory
- 1g Black
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Tools -
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Balling tool
Dresden tool
Small paintbrush for gluing
Soft bristled paintbrush for dusting.
Sharp knife
Cool boiled water (for gluing things together)
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Step one - Shell
Take 60g of brown modelling paste, roll into a ball and then roll the ball into an elongated teardrop shape as shown.
Use your thumb and forefinger to pinch around the edge of the widest end to create an indent in the paste as shown.
Start at the tip and carefully roll the paste up into a spiral to create the shell.
Leave to one side whilst you make the body.
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Step two - Body
Take 20g of dark green and 10g of light green and roll each into a ball.
Roll each ball into a short fat teardrop as shown.
Lay the small light green teardrop on top and in the centre of the large dark green teardrop as shown.
Gently roll the paste backwards and forwards between the palm of your hands to blend the pastes together and lengthen the teardrop slightly, as shown.
To narrow the neck and form the head - Hold the paste approximately 2cm in at the widest end of the teardrop and roll the paste backwards and forwards between your thumb and forefinger.
Helvetica Light is an easy to read font, with tall and narrow letters, that works well on almost every site.
Gently twist the head around and bend over as shown.
Roll the tail into a point.
Step three - Face
Take the smoothing end of the Dresden tool and with the flat side facing upwards gently push in to begin to form the mouth as shown.
Use the veining end of the Dresden tool to mark the corners of the mouth as shown.
Use the smoothing end of the Dresden tool to gently press in at each side of the mouth to start to form the bottom lip.
Smooth across the middle to define the bottom lip and close the mouth as shown.
Use the smoothing end of the Dresden tool, push the tip in gently at each corner of the mouth as shown.
Take the small end of the balling tool and gently push in and lift up to open up the eye sockets as shown
Roll two tiny black balls of modelling paste and stick them into place to create the eyes.
Take a small piece of brown modelling paste and roll it into shape for the nose as shown, stick it in place.
Stick the shell onto the body.
Step four - Finishing touches
Using the darkest green (Eucalyptus) modelling paste roll tiny balls of various sizes. Stick them randomly over the back of the head, the face and the body to decorate.
Take two small balls of cream modelling paste and roll them into elongated teardrops as shown.
Bend over the tip of each one as shown.
Stick each one into place as shown and bend over slightly.
To decorate the shell roll small balls of light brown modelling paste into long thin strands that are pointed on each end.
Start at one end and gently roll along to create spirals as shown.
Roll tiny balls of various sizes out of the light brown paste and stick these and the spirals randomly all over the shell to decorate.
Roll two tiny sausages of dark brown modelling paste to make the eyebrows.
Roll two tiny balls of white modelling paste and stick into place on the eyes as shown.
Dip a soft bristled paintbrush into a small amount of the dusky pink edible tint, wipe off the excess on a piece of kitchen roll and dab the paintbrush gently on each cheek and across the bottom lip as shown.
Your snail is now complete!
