How To: Fondant Elephant Figure

I show you a quick and really easy way to make adorable elephant figures! They're perfect toppers for baby shower cakes or children's birthday cakes and can be customized smaller for cupcakes.
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Annie

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• fondant
• cakes
• baking
• figures
• elephant
• baby shower
• teafortwo
• annie v
• how to
• decorating
• gumpaste
• animal
• jungle

[1CrazyDiamond18]

My biggest question would be, fondant vs gumpaste. I have heard many times that if Fondant is too thick, that it will crack when it dries, is this really the case?

[teafortwobakes]

@1CrazyDiamond18 its not so much that fondant is too thick, its just that gumpaste will harden faster and stronger than fondant.

ive found that fondant mostly will harden from the outside but the inside is still pretty soft, but gumpaste with harden all the way through

[tthonglor]

LOVE IT!!!! i want one!.. i think im gonna take up a hobbie with polymer clay too lol

[teafortwobakes]

@tthonglor oooo that would be so much more easier and you could keep it for a longer time without it fading so thats good!

[teafortwobakes]

@novemberrox123 cool. lemme know when you make a video to show me youre version.

[andrewp46]

Excellent but need help with a giraffe & monkey!!!

[MrsVanAs]

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talent! Made my first fondant / gumpaste elephant and he is adorable.

[greenapple6]

I am sooo looking forward to your giraffe tutorial :-)

[CaitlinJane8]

That's adorable. I'm making a baby shower cake that's jungle themed and this elephant will be great!

[marshmallow10162]

thx it helped alot

[dylansgirl07]

you do really great animals! Im just starting to play around & made the lion you posted & it came out pretty good. you need to put up a how to do a horse tutorial next!



[tigrrrkitty]

Thanks for this tutorial...just finished my very first fondant elephant. He came out sooo cute--I even gave him a little tail. Any plans to do a tutorial on the giraffe anytime soon??