Safari Animal Cake Toppers

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Safari Animal Cake Toppers

Learn how to sculpt and paint four adorable safari animals out of gumpaste to place on your cakes!

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Learn How to Create Safari Animal Cake Toppers!

In this course we will go through the process of creating four safari animal cake toppers. We will be using gumpaste and fondant to create our adorable creatures. You will learn how to use skewers as a support for your toppers. We will breakdown the body into shapes and parts to simplify and allow time for drying. Lastly, we will create cute facial features and paint detailing to bring our safari animals to life!

This class has five lessons that will cover every step from mixing colors, to sculpting and painting the animals to create four adorable safari animal cake toppers!

Safari Animals

Lesson 1 – Giraffe and Lion Bodies, Zebra and Elephant Legs

How to work with gumpaste and color it to get the correct skin tones for each animal.

Use skewers to create a nice structural support for your animals.

Shape and sculpt with gumpaste to create the legs and bodies of the safari toppers.

Lesson 2 – Giraffe and Lion legs and head, Zebra and Elephant bodies

How long to allow for drying time between each additional body part.

Sculpt specific shapes for each head to create unique characters.

Create a stable structure for standing figures so they will stand strong and secure in your cake.

Lesson 3 – Elephant and Zebra heads

Shape the face with an extended trunk for the elephant’s head.

Adding support during drying time so your animals dry strong and their shape is not altered.

Lesson 4 - Sculpting the facial details

Sculpt the mouths, ears and tails for the four animals to give them their unique characteristics.

Use wire when necessary to give extra support to added details.

Lesson 5 – Sculpting and painting the animal's faces and bodies

How to paint with gel colors on gumpaste.

Paint the eyes of each animal to bring them to life.

Create the giraffe’s spots and zebra’s stripes.

Add a few extra details to make your animals extra adorable!

Your Instructor

Melissa Alt

Melissa's passion for creating cakes began early on when she was just a teen. She would watch cake shows on TV and thought, "I want to try that!". Instantly she spent all of her free time reading books and searching the web to learn anything she could about cake decorating. She was always an artist, working with paint, clay and fashion design, but when she discovered the art of cake, it became her all time favorite medium to work with.

In 2010, Melissa landed an internship with the Cake Boss, where she learnt the fundamentals of cake decoration. While attending college at Pratt Institute, Melissa studied painting and sculpture; incorporating edible materials into any project she could. After college Melissa turned her passion for cakes into a career, launching Melissa Alt Cakes in 2015.

Since the start of her business Melissa's cakes have been featured in numerous magazines and reached international recognition. She's created cakes for Google, Time Out NYC and Harper’s Bazaar. She won the award for Best Show Cake at the 2017 NY Cake Show. In the spring/summer of 2018 Melissa worked as the Culinary producer for Reality Bites Cupcakes on Food Network. Melissa is also the exclusive cake decorator for Dylan's Candy Bar in NYC.

Melissa's cakes are her art. She strives to create one of a kind artistic creations that form an experience of joy and beauty. When she is not making cakes you can find Melissa cuddling her dog, camping, watching a horror movie or drinking delicious IPA on a rooftop. She is constantly inspired by her surrounding environments and adventures. Each cake Melissa makes is an expression of herself. Extreme passion, dedication and numerous hours are put into every piece of work Melissa creates. Her favorite moment is when the creation is cut and her art becomes delicious cake!

To Melissa there is nothing she loves more than the art of cake and being able to share it with the world :)

Course Curriculum

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List of All Supplies

Introduction

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Overview

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Introduction to Safari Animal Cake Toppers (0:43)

Lesson 1: Giraffe and Lion Bodies, Zebra and Elephant Legs

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List of supplies

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Mixing the color for the giraffe's body (1:40)

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Mixing the color for the lion's body (1:57)

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Mixing the color the elephant's body (2:59)

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Shaping the giraffe's body (6:34)

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Shaping the lion's body (5:10)

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Shaping the zebra's legs (3:44)

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Shaping the elephant's legs (5:38)

Lesson 2: Giraffe and Lion legs and head, Zebra and Elephant bodies

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Shaping the giraffe's legs and head (3:40)

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Shaping the lion's legs and head (6:41)

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Shaping the Zebra's body (3:09)

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Shaping the Elephant's body (3:59)

Lesson 3: Elephant and Zebra heads

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Shaping the zebra's head (2:04)

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Shaping the elephant's head (4:41)

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Adding extra support for drying (1:42)

Lesson 4: Sculpting the facial details

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Lion's tail (3:03)

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Lion's mouth and nose (2:53)

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Lion's mane (12:30)

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Giraffe tail and hooves (2:22)

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Giraffe mouth and ears (5:22)

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Zebra mouth and ears (4:03)

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Zebra tail (2:03)

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Zebra hair (1:53)

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Zebra eyes (1:47)

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Elephant ears (3:51)

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Elephant Eyes (1:20)

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Elephant tail (1:30)

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Elephant toes (1:19)

Lesson 5: Sculpting and painting the animal's faces and bodies

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Shaping the giraffe's and lion's eyes (2:00)

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Paint the lion's eyes (1:31)

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Lion's eyelashes and mouth detail (1:27)

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Painting the Giraffe's eyes and adding eyelashes (2:09)

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Giraffe's mouth and ears detailing (1:24)

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Painting the giraffe's body spots (3:33)

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Painting the elephants eyes (2:27)

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Painting stripes on the front side of the zebra (5:30)

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Painting the zebra's eyes and ears (2:37)

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Painting stripes on the zebras face and back side (3:53)

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Elephant's eyelashes and eye detail (1:04)

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Zebra's eyelashes and eye detail (2:00)

Finale of Safari Animal Cake Toppers

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We are done! Lets see our beautiful work completed! (1:52)

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Share your art!

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Access to all "Beginner" level courses

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Yearly

Access to all "Beginner" level courses

Available 24/7

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