Iggle Piggle, Makka Pakka and Upsy Daisy Tutorial

What you need:

Large PME Blossom plunger cutter

Small PME blossom plunger cutter

Tiny PME blossom plunger cutter

Large PME Daisy Cutter

A little bit of Vodka (for painting)

Pink & Tangerine Colouring

Small black non pareils

Modelling paste

Rolling pin

Fine paint brush

PME Ball tool

Craft Knife

PME Shell/Blade tool Edible Modelling Paste Recipe: Mix 225g white Fondant/Sugar Paste with 1 teaspoon Gum Tragacanth. Leave in a sealed bag overnight to settle. TIP: I only buy my Gum Tragacanth from www.cakecraftworld.co.uk as it gives me the best consistency. It’s great to work with and dries harder than fondant and isn’t so sticky. You also use very little icing sugar or corn flour when using this paste so no white powder on your creations.

I have made the following paste for these characters 100g blue – made up from Baby Blue Sugarflair paste colour 20g white, 50g light pink, 100g light brown, 10g dark pink, 30g light yellow, 15g dark yellow, 50g red 15g dark orange, 30g medium brown, 10g dark brown, 10g very dark brown, 10g purple

Note: Allow time for decorations to dry, I usually make them at least 1 day before the cupcakes need to be decorated. You can make decorations up weeks or months in advance though as they do last and will still be edible.

Links: Small Black Non Pareils: www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk or eBay

PME Cutters, Tools, Gum Tragacanth, Sugarflair paste colours: www.cakecraftworld.co.uk or eBay I have also found quite a few cake decorating tools at TK Maxx in the cooking section, you can get cutters for

flowers, leaves etc.

TIP: Sugar Glue – Break up some fondant and put in a container, pour hot water over it and

leave to melt, use a paintbrush to apply to icing to stick things on characters, Seal tub of glue

with lid and use when needed

Get some of your blue paste and make an egg shape, but not too

rounded, pretty flat at the front and back

Using your blade tool, make a small line in the middle of the front of Iggle

Piggle’s belly

Using the biggest side of your ball tool, at the bottom of the belly, make 2

grooves for the legs to fit into, don’t make it too wide

Roll 2 tier drop shapes for the legs.

Shape Iggle Piggle’s feet, they are round at the bottom. Using your blade

tool again make a line on top of the legs from the feet.

Use a little sugar glue in the rounded areas and push your little legs onto

the glue as pictured.

Using your large ball on the ball tool again, make a little ‘groove’ for each

arm to fit snuggly

Roll 2 sausage shapes for the arms

At the ends of the arms, using your 2 ‘pointer’ fingers press into the arm

and roll a little to shape the hand at the end of the arm as pictured.

Using your craft knife, cut a little thumb on each hand.

Using a little sugar glue attach the arms to the sides of the body

Get some red paste and roll it out nice and thin.

Nice thin paste ready to make a blanket for Iggle Piggle

Using your fingers, fold the blanket, making creases, if the paste has been

rolled nice and thin it will bend, curve and fold neatly

Use some sugar glue and attach the blanket to Iggle Piggle, hanging over

his arm. Get some more blue paste and shape Iggle Piggle’s head as

pictured.

Use your blade tool to make a line at the top of Iggle Piggle’s head as

pictured, the line is at an angle and goes all the way around his head.

Using the small ball on your ball tool, gently make 2 little round holes in

Iggle Piggle’s face, not too deep, just slight little rounds.

Roll 2 small white balls for eye balls

Glue the 2 little eyeballs into the ‘sockets’, make a little nose and attach

and then using the back of your craft knife make a little mouth

Add a teeny bit of sugar glue to each eye ball and stick a black non pareil

in the middle to complete the eyes

Roll out some more red paste and cut out 2 small circles for the pads at

the bottom of Iggle Piggle’s feet.

The pads on the bottom of Iggle Piggle’s feet

Get some more red and shape as pictured, cut 2 grooves into this shape

for Iggle Piggle’s ‘hair’

Attach Iggle Piggle’s hair to the top of his head

Get some red and make a cone shape with a flattish top for Upsy Daisy’s

skirt

Using your fingers, soft the bottom edges of the ‘skirt’ and then at the

front, using your ball tool, lift the skirt a little for the legs to fit in and under.

Roll out some white paste and cut out a large daisy with your daisy cutter.

Add some glue to the back of the daisy and stick to the top of the skirt,

sticking it down on the sides to make the petal effect on Upsy Daisy’s

skirt.

Get your dark yellow and make a triangular shape to fit on top of the skirt,

flatten the top of the triangle. This is Upsy Daisy’s top.

Roll out some light yellow paste and cut a small belt to fit around Upsy

Daisy’s belly.

Glue the belt around the belly, half and the top and half on the bottom.

Roll 2 legs out of light yellow paste, fat little sausage shapes

Add some glue to the tops of the legs and tuck them in under the skirt.

Using some dark pink paste, make 2 little shoes and glue them to the

bottom of Upsy Daisy’s legs.

Get your small blossom cutter.

Press the blossom cutter into he bottom of each shoe to leave an imprint

as pictured.

Roll out some dark orange paste and roll it very thin. Get your tiny

blossom cutter and cut out some blossoms

Stick the blossoms to Upsy Daisy’s top, back and front.

Using light pink paste roll some arms for Upsy Daisy, shape them as

pictured (I don’t know what shape that is ) the largest sides will stick on

to her body

Attach the arms to the side of the body

Roll a little ball out of the medium brown paste.

Stick the little brown ball on top of the body and press it flatter for Upsy

Daisy’s neck.

Roll an oval shaped head for Upsy Daisy

Using the small side of your ball tool again make 2 little eye ‘sockets

Add a nose and cut a little mouth into her face with the back of your craft

knife

Roll 2 small white balls for eye balls.

Glue the white eyeballs into the sockets and add the little black non

pareils to finish off the eyes. Get a little bit of orange paste and roll very

small eye brows.

Glue the eye brows above the eyes and trim if you need to, so they aren’t

too long across the tops of the eye.

Dip a piece of uncooked spaghetti in some sugar glue and push it into

Upsy Daisy’s body, this gives more support for the head to stay on the

body.

Add a little more glue to the neck and push the head down onto the

spaghetti

Roll out some light pink paste and cut out a large blossom with your

cutter. Then using your rolling pin roll the blossom out a little, stretching it.

Attach the blossom shape to the back of Upsy Daisy’s head as pictured.

Using the back of your paintbrush make some little holes in Upsy Daisy’s

head to glue her ‘hair’ intol

The holes in Upsy Daisy’s head.

Roll some little sausage shapes from paste for Upsy Daisy’s hair and glue

into the holes in her head, just bend them over to give them some shape.

Upsy’s finished hair.

Using some of the brown paste make some little hands for Upsy Daisy

and cut a little thumb into each hand.

Attach the hands with a little sugar glue.

Dip your fine paintbrush into some vodka and use the lid of your pink

colouring, you don’t want the paint too dark, so it must be quite watered

down with vodka.

Gently and carefully paint a little pink stripe on each of Upsy’s legs.

Finished striped legs.

Clean your paint brush with some vodka and paint some orange stripes

on Upsy Daisy’s sleeves.

Completed striped sleeves.

Get a tiny bit of purple paste.

Roll out a thin sausage from the purple.

Make a little ‘o’ shape from the purple sausage shape and attach to

Upsy’s belt.

Get your light brown paste and roll an egg shape for Makka Pakka’s body

Roll 2 small fat cone shapes for his legs.

Attach the legs to the bottom of his body and push down a little bit.

Make some arms for Makka Pakka and shape the hands on the end of the

arms. Make some little indents with your craft knife for fingers.

Attach the arms to the body with some sugar glue.

Put some spaghetti into Makka Pakka’s body and roll an oval shape for

his head.

Roll 2 small very dark brown balls.

Attach the little very dark brown balls to Makka’s face and press down on

them to make the backs of the eyes. Add a little nose from dark brown.

Make a little mouth with the back of your craft knife.

Make 2 small white balls and press down on to the brown circles.

Add the little black non pareils on to the eyes to complete them.

Make some small paste disks as pictured for the side and top of Makka

Pakka’s face. Large disks in medium brown, medium disks in dark brown

and little very dark brown balls

Stack the disks and balls as pictured. Add a little glue in between each

disk.

Attach the little stacks to the sides and otp of Makka Pakka’s face

Finished Makka Pakka.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

Please note that all the photographs and

original design are done by myself for

Shereen’s Cakes and Bakes and they are

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