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And rolled it out. Most decorators say they roll out to about an 1/8th of an inch.
I then draped it over the lion. I had already learned from the Tallulah
the Cat cake to use separate pieces of fondant for the legs and tail. It is easy to hide the places where you pieced together
when you add your fur lines
Then I pressed the fondant into the rice crispy shape. Taking care
to mold in where I wanted his eyes and nose.
I then rolled out and cut smaller pieces of fondant that I draped
over his front legs and tail. Again I pressed the fondant onto the shape. I took a plastic pizza cutter and put in lines all
over his body that resembled fur. The ears are molded out of the same fondant and applied with a dab of water.
Details are added with colored fondant. Applied with a dab of
water and molded to look right while on the lion. He only has one eye in this photo because in my original plan I had wanted
him to be watching the mouse removing the thorn from his paw with one eye shut (because he didn't really want to see it
come out!) But no matter how I tweaked it he looked like he only had one eye, so I later added the second eye. I looked up
lion's paw on Google images so that I would have his paw somewhat "realistic".
The mouse was also molded out of fondant. I used a pin to make
the lines for his fur because he was to small to use the pizza cutter on. I later wished I had waited to add him until after
adding the safari grass. (so that he would be sitting on top) I ended up taking him off, putting down the grass and putting
him back on. You can also see in the second picture that I added teeth to the lion. I was trying to give the impression that
he could snap up the mouse at any time.
My family kept saying that he looked white and he did indeed
look like Polar Bear even though he was (technically) beige. I wasn't happy with his coloring either so I got a can of
Wilton's Spray Mist and colored him yellow.
I then added "safari" grass. I was trying to stay
true to the colors of the African Safari. If I do one similar to this again I will make the grass green. The colors complimented
each other well though. The grass is buttercream and I used a grass tip to make it.
I also decided at this point to give
the lion claws. I molded them out of white fondant and applied them with a dab of water. I was still trying to give the impression
that the lion could, with one easy scoop, eat the mouse whole.
I then started piping in the lion's mane using buttercream
a small shell border tip. I just kept piping it in until it was as full as I liked. The hardest part was under his chin. I
had to keep piping it in and building from the board up. Also the end of his tail. You can see where I had tried to keep
one eye shut...
By this time my Kodak Easy Share camera was completely sticky
and quit taking good pictures. (I was able to get it cleaned up and destickified by the time of the show!) This picture is
blurry, sorry!
The scroll is made from gumpaste. I rolled it out and cut it and then rolled the edges onto gumpaste "sticks".
I wrote on it with black buttercream in a parchment bag cut with a teensy tinsey tip. I added cocoa to the black buttercream
hoping it would keep it from bleeding. It didn't bleed, it set up nicely.
It says "Little Friends May Prove
Great Friends" which is the moral of the story to Aesop's Fable. "The Lion and the Mouse"
This technique could easily be done on a carved cake. Everyone at
the show thought it was a cake!
If I were to do this for an order I would place it on top of a large square
or sheet cake so that it could be removed and the cake could be sliced and eaten.
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