Synopses & Reviews
A follow-up to the author's successful Twenty to Make: Sugar Animals, this new book shows how to make 17 stunning sugar animals to decorate cakes for all occasions. Renowned sugar crafter Frances McNaughton begins by revealing the tools she uses and goes on to show techniques such as modeling all the basic shapes required, sculpting with tools, dusting or painting to add color, texturing with royal icing, and making fur and animal prints. The step-by-step projects show how to make appealing, realistic animals such as a cat, lion, cow, meerkat, brown bear, bat, pig, gorilla, elephant, rabbit, and polar bear. This guide also includes new techniques, such as how to make dark eyes with convincing shine, and extra details that will give the animals realistic attitudes, expressions, and poses. Several patterns are also supplied to help readers craft these wild confections with ease.
Synopsis
Renowned sugarcrafter, Frances McNaughton, shows how to make beautiful, natural-looking sugar animals with realistic colouring, attitudes and expressions. In the step by step demonstrations, she uses simple modelling techniques and basic shapes to create the animals, then sculpts and colours them to produce sensational cake toppers. Learn how to make favourites such as a lion and cats, as well as more unusual animals such as a meerkat, gorilla and polar bear, and many more. If someone in your life loves animals, or cakes, these gorgeous sugar creatures will be sure to appeal.
About the Author
Frances McNaughton is a sugarcraft tutor and demonstrator who provides workshops to the British Sugarcraft Guild and the National Sugarart Association. Her sugarcraft props have appeared in the films "Notting Hill," "Chocolat," and three of the Harry Potter films. She is the author of several books in the Twenty to Make series, including "Sugar Animals," "Sugar Birds," and "Sugar Fairies."