Ancestors must eat too...
I have some serious construction to do on the house but I don't seem to be able to get in the mood. So instead I tried my hand at baking mini cakes. Now, I am a disaster in the kitchen in real life so I was a bit hesitant at first. I started making a mold with some silicone paste and a beer bottle cap and some jewellery findings. That was easy! 10 minute later I had a mold. So I started mixing some polymer clay to make the colour of the cupcakes (chocolate brown, I mixed green and red) and for the pies (brown and white). I don't have a lot of colours (yet) so I mix what I have. I made the cherry pie in the bottle cap as I can ask my neighbour to save me some ;-) and the cupcakes and apple pie in the molds. I used red beads for the cherry-filling. I made both pies without backing in between. I coloured the apples with pastel and then covered both pies with liquid clay. This way the beads are fixed in place and the apple pie gets that juicy sheen. For the cupcakes I used the mold made from the jewellery findings and covered them with a little swirly clay sausage. I cured the clay while in the mold and took the pies out when cooled. The jam covered cupcake did not turn out like I wanted. I tried to make frosting mixing a bit of red clay and liquid clay. I think next time I will used acrylic paint to colour the liquid clay. The little swirl on that cupcake comes from a box of nail decorations. The colour of the apple pie crust is too dark but as it is, it looks just like my slightly burned real life apple pie :-).
Fantastic!! They certainly look good enough to eat! The pies are wonderfully rustic.
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