How to make Gumpaste Santa for Christmas Cake

It’s amazing how Santa and Snowman can get kids in the Christmas mood this whole season. Mine have to had a gumpaste Santa and a snowman on their cake. Just have to!!! Or it’s not a Christmas cake.

This is second year 2011 – Aadi is only two and so excited about his Christmas. We made Santa sitting on the Chimney.

This I made for fun and made him standing to I thought I’d take a few pictures to share with you. I’m still learning myself so I hope you will appreciate and find it helpful.

 

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How to make Gum Paste Santa Claus

Let’s start

Things you will need to make gumpaste Santa

• You will need fondant in Red, White, a little black and skin color for the face and hands or white for gloves.
• Here I used modeling chocolate for the face
• A small foam ball for the stomach. You can also use a ball for the head.
• Add CMC or Tylose to the paste so the figure will have more stability.
• Divide the red into three parts – one for the legs, second for body, third we will make arms and cap.
• I make the different parts and let them sit for a while to firm up a bit, that makes it easier to handle them.
• I used a kebab skewer the figure to secure it in place.

Let’s make the leg/pants – our gumpaste Santa

• Take part one of the red paste
• roll into a long sausage – thick in the center
• bring the narrow end down and mold the shape to resemble pants
• make creases to add more character.
• The flat end is the front but make sure it’s not too square.
• The back is the booty so do not squash it.

Let’s make the body/belly/jacket for our gumpaste Santa

• Take part two of our red gumpaste
• insert the form ball and roll into a ball.
• now shape the ball into a cone – the form ball making the stomach.
• The foam will help with Santa’s weight. So he wont’ fall face down.
• shape to make it look like a body with belly.
• Add white trimming to complete the top.

Let’s make arms / jacket sleeves for our gumpaste Santa

• Take part three of the red gumpaste
• Roll into a sausage
• Then cut at a diagonal as shown below
• Measure to required length
• use the balance of the red gumpaste to make the cap.

Let’s make gloves – for our gumpaste Santa

• Pretty simple really.
• I made two small balls of white –
• then shaped it like a tennis bat
• then cut the thumb and fingers.

lastly – Let’s make the face with beard for our gumpaste Santa

• Roll some skin tone modeling paste into a ball.
• use a finger to roll back and forth making the eye area
• then add a small button nose
• add white for the beard and mustache
• White and black for the eyes
• Make eye brows and white hair
• cut the top of this head off so the cap will still flush with his head

And that’s all there is to my gumpaste santa

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