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Put buttercream on your surface to give your pig something to "stick" to
Then place three of the cut halves "standing up" on your
board. Put the one that is slightly higher in the middle to give the pig a more defined back. Put buttercream frosting in
between your halves. Just a thin layer. Doing this makes sure that everyone getting a slice gets icing as well as making
it look pretty when sliced.
Next add a coat of icing over the three halves but don't try
to smooth it out...yet. I use a pastry bag and icing tip to do this but it can be done with a spatula.
Place your fourth half in front of the other three. This will
make up your pigs head and eyes. Trim down the sides into to large same shaped pieces and save these to become his hind legs.
Continue rounding out fourth piece/head if needed. Frost
the sides of pig and smooth to ready for placement of hind legs.
Place hind leg pieces as shown and ice. Ice head as well.
Cut down small wonder mold cake or cupcake to the right size for
pig's snout.
Place nose in front position. Ice nose. Then you are ready
to smooth cake icing out all over with a spatula. If any cake trys to show back through, just re-add frosting and try smoothing
again. If you have any trouble with your cake continuing to show through. Scrape icing down thin and pop cake into the freezer
for 20 or more minutes. Take cake out and try frosting again.
Now you are ready to add details. I used a parchment triangle
for the eyes, nostrils and hooves. If you have pastry bags or disposable bags, those are fine as well. If you have none of
those things on hand, you can use a sandwich bag. Fill it with frosting and cut a small hole in one corner. Just squeeze gently.
I use a small, bent spatula for smoothing out icing in small
details such as the whites of eyes. You can also use a butter knife. Then add other eye and nose details.
I generally like to use a pastry bag with only the coupler inserted
for the ears, but you can use any of the above described methods.
Use the same bag to pipe in front legs. Smooth out legs as needed.
I used a parchment triangle to add hooves in black but again you
can use whatever you have on hand that you can fill and cut a small hole in for a tip.
Don't forget the curly tail!
Your Pig or Razorback is complete. For the Razorback, you can add
the red spikes with your bag by squeezing and pulling off his back all the way down. Don't for get his tusks!
This is a basic pig. Other cute ideas would be to put brown frosting down on your board for "mud" or using a grass
tip to have the pig sitting in grass.
Have fun!
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