Beautifully decorated cakes thrill our senses before we have even taken the first bite. With their cheerful shapes and colours, they hold the promise of mouth watering delight and represent the perfect ending of a meal. Creating your cake decoration is simpler than you could imagine!!!
Making cakes is a wonderful way to spark a lifelong love of the kitchen in your children. It teaches kids about the processes of cooking: following a recipe, measuring, combining ingredients and applying heat to create a wonderful transformation. It’s messy (there is the fun!) and the results are hard to resist.
Lets try this simple octopus with fondant. This is also commonly known as sugar paste. It is a very versatile paste, making it easy to create many types of characters. Fondant is readily available in stores selling cake supplies, or you can make your own. Considering the amount of time in making and the consistency of the mix I would prefer to get the ready made ones from the store.( I brought this from Tesco)
Storing fondant
When working with any fondant, ensure that you keep it well wrapped to prevent it drying out.
I hope this will give you the confidence to create your own characters from scratch. Enjoy!!
Instead of a cake, I have used a cup to demonstrate this.
Roll a big ball of fondant for the body.
Make few small balls for the eyes, and few eyelashes.
Stick the eyes and the eyelashes to the body.
Roll a ball of fondant into a cone, and stick.
Cover the leg with yellow balls.
Roll green fondant for the leaves.
Fondant smoothing tools are available “cheap as chips” in Amazon.
Your octopus cake decoration is ready!!
Oh fun! I love cake decorating too! I recently joined a cake decorating course, which lasts for an entire year! In fact, cake decorating is so awesome, I’m doing a write up on my blog about my weekly class. This is the first post of yours I have read, and I can’t wait to read more!
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Hello Aliah glad to know you like my blog. Just visited yours it’s amazing!! Too much to learn from you. Looking forward to see more of your posts. Bring your final photo in the front of your posts. Let more people could see you. Just a piece of tip from my side. Thanks a lot!!
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This looks so detailed. I really like all of your fondant work. https://baking781.wordpress.com/😀
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Thank you Bernadine:)
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Brilliant idea – step by step instructions are great
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Thank you Robbie.
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Your créations are really awesome, well done!!! Regards.
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Thank you Jenoke:))
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You are an artist 🎨
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Carol, in the world of cooking we all are artists in one or another way:))
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Pleased to meet you.
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Nice to meet you, too.
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A visual treat to the eyes…..Simply awesome !!
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Thanks Radhika🐙
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I am already hungry seeing your posts.
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Hi Harish, that is only a visual treat!! You should try it, there is the joy:))
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I will definitely. Thank you so much Sumith ji.
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Clever ideas and delicious food produces tasty treats that are very pleasing.
Thanks so much for your subscription. Eddie
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Thank you so much Eddie😊
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Hi Sumith! So glad to have been directed to your wonderful site by your visit to mine. Very inspiring work here!
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Thank you Vibha. You are soo generous!! I loved reading your wonderful blog as well!!
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So creative! Always appreciate your step by step instructions too, Sumith.
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Thank you Sandhya. You soo kind😊
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Wow, your decoration skills are amazing! Absolutely loving it!
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Thank you Ginger:))
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No new post? Busy? 😉
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Yes Lisa, been very busy😶
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YOU are SO CREATIVE, my dear friend! Waw!!! A beautiful step-by-step tutorial too! Waw!!!
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Thank you Sophie:))
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Artistic and very creative 🙂
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Thank you Nandini:))
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Very very creative ! Awesome !
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Thank you Payeljit:))
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Very creative indeed 🙂
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Thanks Indu!! You soo kind.
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Super cute
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Thank you Ritu🐙
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Great creativity 😀 thanks for sharing it.
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Thank you Rhythm🐙
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Breathtaking and beautiful😃
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Thank you Mona🐙
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It’s a delight to go through your blog ! Great work !
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Thank you for stopping by. Glad you liked my blog😊
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Samith, thanks for showing us how you did it. I agree that teaching your children the love of cooking is always a good move. I was in the catering business with our younger son and he is an excellent chef. He makes a mean pie too. I have done a lot of cakes. It’s great fun!
Leslie
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Hi Leslie, thanks for the compliment. Making cake with kids is a great fun. Happy to know your son is a chef and he is enjoying his job.
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Thank you so much for a prompt answer. My husband has discovered an Indian store and brought home some interesting vegetables for me to figure out what to do with them. If you don’t mind, I’ll be asking for your advice sometimes.
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Hi Dolly, Happy to serve Happiness😊
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Your food art is always amazing! Could you tell me if I can treat muli (mooli?) the same way as daikon radish? It looks similar, but is the taste different? Thanks!
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Thank you Dolly. Daikon radish and muli is the same. You can treat both in the same way and the taste is similar as well.
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I should ask you for special occasions!
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Paul, the octopus?
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Ohh!! Yes Paul the octopus🐙
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