Marzipan tends to get short shrift from many when it comes to decorating their cakes, which is a shame because it’s an incredibly versatile medium.
When it is used most people tend to go for marzipan fruit or maybe flowers, but it’s just as good for creating figurines. In fact marzipan figures are often much easier to make because the material is more forgiving than icing.
So why not follow these steps to make a marzipan baby to adorn your cake.
Ultimate Guide To Creating Your Own Marzipan Babies
This guide shows a baby girl, but these steps can be applied to a baby boy by just changing the colour of the baby girl from pink to a colour of your choosing.
- Make the body first.
Get a lump of marzipan and begin to roll and knead it slightly in your hands to soften it up. Then, using a toothpick, apply a few dabs of pink food colouring paste and begin to work it through the marzipan until you’ve got a nice pink colour. Then, shape the pink marzipan into a rough pear shape.
- Now the legs.
Colour the marzipan as before and this time roll out two chubby sausages and shape the ends up into feet. Good marzipan figures rely on getting the proportions right, and babies’ legs tend to be a bit shorter relative to the torso than the adult legs. You can attach these to the body using a little water. Make sure to bend them around the front of the body a little to give them that cute baby bow-legs look. Repeat the above step for the arms
Be sure to keep the proportions chunky. At this stage take a short length of dry spaghetti and push it through the top of the body. This is to stop the head from falling off.
- Next comes the head
The tricky part here is to get the flesh colour right. Different colours work better for specific skin tones, but paprika colours are good for white flesh. Once you’ve coloured the marzipan, roll it into a ball and shape it in the ears, mouth, and nose. You can add the eyes using edible food paint.
- For some final detailing add on the hands
These can just be flattened balls of flesh-coloured marzipan. You can mark the fingers using a toothpick. Why not add a lock of hair on top of the head with a small bow attached? Or maybe a dummy for the mouth?
And that’s really all there is to making a baby out of marzipan.
Thanks to the simple shapes, they aren’t that difficult to make, but like everything, creating a really good marzipan baby comes down to care, attention and practice.
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Thank you for this tutorial!!! Many Blessings to you and yours!
That's one way of making babies, I guess! They look too cute to eat though
my cousin had a marzipan baby for her christening cake, looked really life like, I'm pretty sure I couldn't make one look as good as that lol x