Fun Figures: Cute character cake toppers for all occasions

Although I have not attempted any projects yet, this book will encourage me to try... confident in the knowledge that I’ll be buying the most useful equipment, suitable ingredients and that my efforts should end in some form of success. The e-book is logically set out with clear instructions and inspiring photos. Another reviewer has already stated that all the faces are similar. That said, they are an excellent starting point for personal interpretation.

I received my book and was delighted so see it wasn't a little flimsy effort ,it's a really big book with clear pictures and easy guides to Lorraine McKay's fabulous work .I think her online tutorials are fab and this book is even better .Im delighted with my book and look forward to creating some fab figures.Well done Lorraine McKay 😊 Anyone who buys this book will not be disappointed .Highly recommended.

She is the original sugar model maker and is still the best! Thank goodness Lorraine has finally brought her knowledge together in this fabulous book. With excellent instructions and clear photos, this is a must for any sugarcrafter. I'm so pleased it's finally here, as I know it took copious amounts of coffee and maltesers for Lorraine to write this book!

I have always been amazed by people creating these wonderful figures but have been nervous to try it out. This book makes it look so simple. There is step by step instructions which are so easy to follow. I received a lot of compliments for my creation which has increased my confidence.

Ideal for beginners and instructions are understood.

Easy to follow picture instructions on making different celebration cakes. I am only a novice cake decorator but followed the instructions to adapt and make the bride & groom on the front cover - at the wedding everyone said I should do it professionally ! Excellent book.

GOOD INFORMATIVE BOOK WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BUT BIT OF EXPERIENCE OF MODELLING WITH CLAY, ICING ETC IS HELPFULWITH SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES.

Another book to add to my growing collection. Enjoyed reading through it and looking forward to getting started on some of the projects. I primarily bought it for the bridge and groom that is on the cover and I found the instruction helpful, would have liked to have seen an example of a bride and groom topper standing up but once you are comfortable making the others you just apply the other methods you have learnt to that.

Ein gutes Buch, mit vielen Bildern und Guten Ideen , super zum nachmachen. habe es für jemand anderen nochmal bestellt, weil sie auch begeistert ist ;))))

In Lorraine McKay's book, you will learn how to make modeling paste (which is sugarpaste aka fondant mixed with Tylose Powder or CMC), and how create several figure projects from start to finish using the modeling paste. Each project has clear directions and helpful photos that show a lot of the major steps involved to making the project. I loved that she went into detail on how to create and sculpt the legs, arms, faces, and some basic hair of the figures, and she has lots of photos showing her process. She makes the process look very easy and possible to make. The steps involve basic sculpting skills and she describes whether a body part needs to be dried overnight, etc, which is all very helpful. I have done some basic sculpting with fondant and gumpaste before, but her instructions helped clarify how to make certain structures, like a standing character or characters with a dress sitting on the edge. There are about ten projects for various occasions: Baby Shower; First Birthday (an upright sitting baby character); Engagement (a man kneeling down in front of his standing woman fiancée worth a ring on a pillow in his hands); Graduation (Standing grad student with grad black robe and hat holding a rolled up certificate); Golden Wedding (elderly couple); Christmas (a sitting Santa character with a sack of toys next to him); Happy 21st (an unusual concept of a standing character holding a giant key--symbolic key to the future?); Valentine's Day (a sitting boy/man with a big heart in his lap); Bride and Groom (both sitting near edge of cake--the cover photo); and Indian Wedding (an Indian sitting couple in Indian Wedding clothing--arranged similarly to the Bride and Groom, just more customized to fit the Indian Wedding occasion--I love this diverse topping :) ). Overall, I really love this book. A nice variety of projects, clear directions, and lots of photos/visuals of the steps involved makes this an excellent purchase. I would love to buy more books from Lorraine, and maybe more from third publisher with this kind of quality. :) If there is one minor flaw, it is that a few tools (like the polystyrene molds and some modeling tools) were not explained in detail or how to find such tools. (But using Google to search the terminology of the tools helped me with that.) I would recommend this book to anyone interested in creating figures out of fondant (or sugarpaste in other parts of the world) mixed in with some tylose powder/cmc (together combined creates the modeling paste used in the book). I would suggest it to both beginners and intermediate level cake artists. Just be patient, confident, and be willing to experiment and don't be afraid to try new things, and you'll learn a lot! :)

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I have followed Lorraine McKay on her web site and on face book, and have always been amazed at her skills. I have been waiting for her to produce this book, I love the step by step approach, easy to follow instructions, great graphic's, like her work producing figures etc. the book is of the same professional quality. Would certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in working with rolled fondant or marzipan.

Sehr informatives Buch in Englischer Sorache. Schritt für Schritt mit sehr tollen Bildern wird einem das modellieren von Gesichtern und Menschen nahegebracht. Top