Pokémon birthday cake

Birthday cake for my great great-nephew

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Comment by Goreti on November 1, 2016 at 6:14pm: I'll have to look into the modeling chocolate one of these days.

Comment by June Kowalczyk on November 1, 2016 at 4:58pm: I'll have to check out Shawna's recipe....

Comment by Sandra Smiley on November 1, 2016 at 11:16am: Goreti, Shawna McGreevy has a fabulous step-by-step picture tutorial on making modeling chocolate. I've never had a booboo since I started using it.

June, modeling chocolate is really different from fondant and gum paste. The first time I used it, I went the 50/50 route, too, but since I've have learned the proper way to handle it, I use straight chocolate. When it gets too soft, you just have to back off for a minute and let it cool down. It literally only takes a minute. I love the stuff.

Comment by June Kowalczyk on October 31, 2016 at 7:30pm: I've made white and dark modeling chocolate, used for covering rct's, roses. But never made whole figure with it, I find too soft. I have done 50/50 m/choc & fondant, that worked for me.

Comment by Goreti on October 31, 2016 at 5:08pm: Sandra, I haven't tried modelling chocolate yet. I trying making it once but didn't have a good result. Never tried again. Gotta give a go one of these days.

Thanks June. I ended going to the $1 store for some of those. That is what finally helped with the drying.

Comment by June Kowalczyk on October 31, 2016 at 4:41pm: Super cute cake Goreti. Just love the Dino coming out of the cake!! It's awful having issues with your fondant/ gumpaste. If you add too much tylose..then you get cracking. I dry my figures in the oven with the light on. I also bought those little boxes of beads from the $1 store, they absorb moisture. Linda told me about them years ago. Place your figure in a box, put the beads beside it. Dries in 24-48 hrs.

Comment by Sandra Smiley on October 30, 2016 at 11:18pm: Very clever save with the dragon! He looks fabulous flying out of the cake. Have you ever tried modeling chocolate? I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread and it tastes good too.

Comment by Goreti on October 29, 2016 at 9:08am: Thanks Sandra but these were a nightmare. Don't know if it was the weather because it was unusually hot and humid here or I got a bad batch of gumpaste. They would not dry. The dragon was terrible so I just saved the head and wafer paper wings and decided to just do 1/2 the body and make it look like he is coming out of the cake. Didn't have much time to do the figures which was probably part of the problem.

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