Pink rose realistic cake

Isn't this a pretty little cake?

This was a really fun one and I plan on doing more. The dollar store had these flat round foam pieces in sets of 2 so I bought 2, cut and layered them, then painted the inside of foam cream. To get the pice cut straight I just traced the circle on a piece of paper, folded it to get it into a third and traced onto the foam then cut with razor each one individually.

I stuck it together with white caulking, with out squishing the inside pieces so there was more room to show the "frosting"

 

 then let that dry before you do the outside or else it will move when you are working with it. Then I just covered with white, then pumped a whole tube into a bowl added pink paint and mixed it up. I put it in a frosting bag with tube and did the rosettes all over then let dry. I really love this one!

fake coconut cake

COCONUT CAKE

 How fun is this little cake? Thank you dollar store for the sponge, I have just been trying out different sponges/foams on the fake cakes to see what works best. This is just a little body sponge, covered in latex caulking and then covered with fake Christmas snow flakes. I sculpted the cherries and then used a cake piping tip on the caulking tube, put the circles on top and put on some cherries. So easy and all squishy so it's nice for tiny hands to play with!

Making realistic cookies/brownies with salt dough

 I wanted to share what is now my favorite recipe for realism in the baking cookies department. So much easier then the paper clay coloring as shown HERE  Here is the recipe

4c flour

1 1/2 c water

1c salt

mix it up and sculpt then airdry!

I baked mine in the oven on the lowest temp just to get them drier faster so I could "Frost" them.

I put a few drops of brown paint in the dough to darken it a tiny bit to look more realistic. I almost forgot to take a pic of what it looked like unpainted. Because of the salt content it made it hard to get the dough dark enough so I just used a chocolate colored paint after and it worked wonderfully! see pics below.

 comparison of sliced piece painted

 here it is painted and "frosted" isn't is beautiful! I made this to fit into one of my daughters toy baking dishes she loves to pretend to cut and serve this one.  you can see that it shrunk a bit when it dried. but I'd rather have it be a bit too small than too big and not fit.

 

Toy cookies

COOKIES! YAY such fun play size cookies!

These are made of paper clay

 Chocolate chip

Frosted BROWNIES salt dough recipe

Frosted, sprinkled Sugar Play size cookies

 

Strawberry cookies

bottom pic is paper clay strawberries

 

Fake Chocolate

Doesn't this fake Chocolate look REAL and YUMMY? I can't wait to use them I think on some fake cupcakes or cakes it would be perfect décor!

 

mini tiny petit fours /chocolate

 I was making everything else in tiny form so I went ahead and made tiny petit fours cakes they are about 1/2 inch wide and chocolate flavor.
AREN'T THEY PRECIOUS! These are FAKE TOY FOOD that look realistic aren't they fun? I need to find something to put them in a little box or something not sure...

Little luncheon

 

So I took my little circle cutter, about 1.5 inches and cute my big ham into little ham.

 

I bought some Italian bread, breadsticks and cut off the rounded edges on both sides

 

Then cut into thirds, slice in half length wise to make a tiny hoagie bun 

 

Then fill! I cut some grape tomatoes, added little slices of cheese also cut with my round cutter, then ham and a little spinach

 Added tiny chips and isn't this the most adorable little sandwich ever?   

 Here is the whole table

 

 

 

 For dessert we had some tiny rice crispy treat balls

 

small glasses can be found at World Market they add such a cute tiny touch in the right size for little hands.

                                        I told her to smile...she made this face then laughed

 

DIY play food COOKIES

Today I am using paper clay, this is probably not the easiest of BEST technique for making play food but I will show you what I did and what would be BETTER. I wanted what I am making to be lightweight when baked, I'm not sure it weighs any less than any other clay. I think a regular playdough salt recipe would have worked better and looked more realistic. I would have colored it a tint of brown and created what I wished.

I got a package of this paperclay, rolled it out and used my tiny cutters that I found in both the polymer clay section of the craft store, and the baking section of fondant gadgets at the craft store.

To get a more realistic texture use a large paintbrush or toothbrush or sand paper to add texture

                                          here is what it looks like with and with out texture.

I'm not a fan of waiting for the clay to air dry, especially this day and wanted to get the project done in one night so I turned on the oven and speed dried the cookies
250 degrees. Bake for approximately 40 minutes, turning pieces over to other side partway through 

If you make some too thin which I did on accident they warped and are going to break a lot easier

do them 1/4 an inch thick is great. Any l more thin you are going to run into problems. 

for FROSTING, there is a lot of different really thick paints either for canvas, or fabric that can be used easily as frosting. You can use white silicon caulking and color it with a dab of paint before piping it on or smearing it on like frosting. Fabric paint works too.

 

For fake sprinkles you can use glitter, seed beads, glass micro beads fund in the scrap booking section of your craft store. You can also make your own from polymer clay, if you follow my mini sculpting tinytina creations you know this is my specialty, I just rolled this snakes of the clay, baked them and cut them with a my razor, you can use scissors too, I also made tiny heart sprinkles for this project. 

if you want colored flat circle ones just make a thicker snake, bake and cut the little circles

 

 

This clay is bright white, I colored it after I made the shapes. It was not the best way to go. If you choose to use this clay I would recommend dropping about 2 drops of brown or tan paint per 1/4 lb of clay. This paper clay came in 1lb brick.  This time I just diluted paint to a wash, and washed over them. It was a bit tricky and had to do some of it darker at times, like for the chocolate chip cookies. For the chocolate chunks I was going to hand sculpt tiny chocolate chips but decided for tie reasons i didn't want to do that tonight. (I'm insane i know) I just cute some square strips and baked them then chopped them up with the razor and stuck them on.

Here is the difference before and after the wash

I also made some little chocolate chip cookies. I cute square strands of clay and baked them then chopped the chunks and placed them in the soft clay.