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Cake Topper Techniques ANNE HEAP

Figure Modeling Class Materials

Recipes, Guides & Supplies

TYLOSE GLUE RECIPE

Mix 1 cup of hot water with 1 teaspoon of tylose powder. Stir
until tylose is dissolved. Store in an airtight container. You can
add more tylose if you’d like your glue to be thicker.

GEL COLORING GUIDE SUPPLIES

Light Skin • Gum paste — Satin Ice
• Yellow • Gel color — Ivory, brown, black, yellow, pink and
• Pink others for clothing
• Green • Floral wire — Gauges 16-24, depending on
• Brown personal preference, size and position of the
figure. Thinner wires can be helpful for small
Medium Skin figures when you want to wire their arms or legs
• Yellow to do something other than “hang.” Thicker is
• Pink needed for standing figures and larger figures.
• More green • Tylose glue (see Recipes & Guides)
• More brown • Paint brushes
Medium/Dark Skin • Toothpicks and skewers
• Brown • Rolling pin
• Green • Latex gloves
• Touch of black • Two fondant smoothers
• Wire cutters
Dark Skin • Small scissors
• Brown • Vegetable shortening and cornstarch or
• Green confectioner’s sugar
• More black • Paring knife
• X-Acto knife
• Needle nosed pliers
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Recipes, Guides & Supplies

SUPPLIES (CONT'D)
• Pizza cutter
• Clay tools to make eyes, texture hair, stitch tool
for clothing, etc.
• Impression mats for clothing detail
• Self-healing cutting mat
• Electric pasta machine (optional)
• Styrofoam cake dummies, on which to build the
figures
• Saran wrap and resealable plastic bags
• Water
• Picture of your subject if possible, or reference
photo of generic person
• Disco Dust
• Airbrush—Vodka and pearl
• Edible glitter
• Royal icing with a number two tip
• Edible gold paint
• Circle, J and flower cutter
• Stitch tool

ONLINE RESOURCES
• thecakeblog.com
• cakewrecks.com
• stylemepretty.com

BOOKS
• Confetti Cakes Cookbook by Elisa Strauss &
Christie Matheson (Little, Brown and Company,
2007)
• Pretty Party Cakes by Peggy Porschen (Clarkson
Potter, 2006)
• Planet Cake by Paris Cutler (Murdoch Books,
2009)
• Cakes to Dream On by Colette Peters (Wiley,
2004)
• The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Berenbaum (William
Morrow Cookbooks, 1988)
• Sugar Flowers: The Art of Sugarcraft by Nicholas
Lodge (Chancellor, 1996)

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