Gloverly Cupcakes

I really enjoy modelling figures and animals especially cute ones! And this one was no exception, a bunny to go on top of a baby shower cake. Click

I used sugar florist paste to make the bunny, I usually use this to model things with as its very elastic, models easily and dries really hard. I started with the body, making a large oval shape. I used a wheel tool to make the stitching pattern down the bunny’s tummy. I then poked a cocktail stick down through the middle, ensuring there was some sticking out of the top to fix the heading and enough for a small bit out of the bottom to secure it to the cake. Next I made the arms and legs by rolling the sugar paste into long sausage shapes fatter at one end than the other. I flattened the fat end and using a tool marked the paw shapes. These were then glued on using edible glue.

Then I made the head by rolling the sugar paste into a rounded egg shape and used the wheel tool to make the stitching marks down the middle. I then secured the head in place with a small amount of glue, poking it onto the cocktail stick. I made the nose by rolling a small ball of sugar paste and flattening it before gluing it in place and adding the stitching and nose details. I made two small dents with a ball tool where the eyes were going to be stuck on.

Next I made the ears with white sugar paste by making an oval shape and flattening it and carefully modelling it into an ear shape with my fingers. I then used the wheel tool down the middle at the back to add detail. I then made some smaller pink bits and glued them into the middle of the ears with edible glue. Next I used some florists wire which I cut into 2 x 5cm pieces, dipped one end in edible glue and inserted them into the bottom of each ear. I let them dry before inserting them into the bunny’s head and secured them in place with a small bit of edible glue.

The eyes were made from two small balls of black sugar paste, glued in the small dents I had made with the ball tool. I also made a small rounded triangle shape in pink for the nose and glued this in place too. The detail on the bottom of the feet was done by rolling out some pink sugar paste and cutting some circles using different sized piping nozzles, these were then glued in place.

Once the cake was iced I added white spots and a couple of circles one to sit the bunny on and one to put ‘baby’ on. Finally the bunny was placed and secured on top with the cocktail stick and some more edible glue.