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.

Gumpaste Santa

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.

Gumpaste Santa

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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.

How to make Gumpaste Santa

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.

How to make gumpaste Santa legs/Pants

Let’s make shoes for our gumpaste Santa

• Take two balls of black paste
• Roll with your finger to create this shape
• Them mark the sole and heel with the back of a knife.

How to make Gumpaste Santa

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.

How to make gum paste Santa body /jacket

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.

How to make gumpaste Santa arms

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.

How to make Gumpaste Santa arms / gloves

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

How to make gum paste Santa face

And that’s all there is to my gumpaste santa

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