Cake
Strawberries
Breakfast items
and more
I'm making them in 1/3 scale for my babies, but you can make them any size you want
What you'll need:
Polymer clay (either colored or -like I use- just plain Super Sculpy)
Paint
Clay tools (I prefer the wooden ones, but sometimes have to use the metal ones)
Crochet hooks and knitting needles
An oven
Patience
Onigiri:
1: shape your clay into a triangle (I use a miniature onigiri shaper made for real onigiri, then cut them in half to get the right thickness)
2: using either a sharply pointed tool or a small crochet hook, draw the edge of the Nori (seaweed used to hold the onigiri by)
3: with the small crochet hook, stab it! stab it until it's covered in texture (all but the nori)
4: Pop it in the oven and cook as directed
5: Paint it white and the nori black
Cake:
1: shape the clay into a large cylinder and chop off the ends so it's nice and flat on top and bottom (or make it squared if you don't want a round cake)
2: add some decorative blobs for frosting and any other toppings you want
3: cut a small slice from it (or cut the entire thing into pieces)
4: Pop it in the oven and bake with the pieces separated so they don't bake together
5: paint it
another method is to make the decorative pieces first (like strawberries), cook and paint them, then super glue them to the finished cake heart
Strawberries:
1: shape the clay into tiny balls, then squish one end to give it a 'tear-drop' shape (cut it in half if you want it to be sitting on something like a cake)
2: using a sharp point tool, draw on some leafs and poke holes in it going at a downward angle
3: Pop it in the oven and bake as directed
4: paint it red with green for the leafs and white designs on the inside (if cut in half)
5 - optional: coat in a glossy paint for a wet look
Chocolate-covered: leave the bottom untextured and paint it the color you want (is white chocolate in the pic)
Cressaunts:
1: roll the clay out flat, then cut into long triangles
2: starting at the wide end, roll the clay up
3: curve it into the cessaunt shape
4: bake
5: paint it a nice golden-brown
Bacon:
1: roll the clay out flat, then cut squiggly strips
2: scrunch up the strips
3: pop it in the oven
4: paint it a red/brown and use a toothpick to make squiggles in white
Eggs:
Boiled:
shape the egg, then bake and paint white
Sunny-side-up:
1: roll out 2 balls of clay; one much smaller than the other
2: squish one ball out flat (it doesn't need to be a perfect circle) and cut the other in half
3-5 can be done in whatever order you want
3: put the small, half-circle on top of the larger one (if doing this after it's baked, use super glue)
4: bake
5: paint it white with the small half-circle yellow
Cinamin Rolls:
1: roll out a long tube, then squish it fairly flat
2: roll it up
3: cook it
4: paint it a nice golden-brown
5: paint the frosting
6-optional: use a gloss over the frosting
Twist Bread (braided bread)
1: roll out three long strings of equal diameter
2: line them up and squish one end together
3: braid it - you want it to be longer than what you want the finished product to be so you get a nice tight braid (at the bottom end)
4: cut it to the desired length and round off the ends
5: texture it with a tool like in the picture
6: pop it in the oven and bake
7: paint a nice golden-brown
I did these with a cream color first, then dry-brushed the brown
- you can either leave it like this or put glaze over it
Donuts
1: make a nice thick tube of clay like with the cinamin roll
2: form it into circles and blend the edges together
3: bake
4: paint it a nice golden brown, then add any color "frosting" you wish, then add gloss to the frosting
-if you want plain glazed frosting, use translucent clay (I use Sculpey III)
spread it over the top and pull bits down to look like it's dripping down the sides - bake and add gloss (you know when this clay is done when you can't see any more white heart )
Chopsticks
you can use toothpicks or do this:
1: get some small slivers of wood (they sell them the perfect size at craft stores)
2: using an exact-o knife or other similar blade, shave it so it tapers down and the smaller end is round (you can also cut the corners off the entire thing to make round chopsticks)
3: paint them and add either gloss, satin, or matte sealer - this will hold the color on better, keeping it from rubbing off onto your babies hands and will keep it from splintering
Pie 1
1: form a big cylinder (like with the cake) and chop off one end so it's nice and flat - the top needs to be a tiny bit lumpy
2: roll the bottom edge so it's a smooth, rounded edge
3: pull the top edge to form a raised ring around with the outside
4: using a rounded tool (a knitting needle works perfectly) make small indentions
5: cut it into wedges (ore just one if you like and leave the rest intact)
6: mark out the pie crust on the top, bottom, and outside edges
7: add detail to the filling
8: bake it as directed
9: paint the insides, then the crust (it should be a nice light golden-brown)
10: dry-brush a slightly darker color to it - the bottom and lower half of the sides should be entirely the darker color-
Tip: to make it look more realistic, dry-brush the darker color only on the top of the lumps
Pie 2
1-3: same as Pie 1
4: mark out the crust side and bottom, pull up the top edge as in Pie 1 and detail the insides
5: cut and bake
6: paint the insides
7: with all the pieces together, lay thin strips across the top in a woven pattern, then cut the pieces apart
8: bake again
9: paint the crust same as Pie 1
More to come as I think of it heart
