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Welcome to How To Cook That I’m Ann
Reardon and today we’re going look at how to turn your BFF into a 3D Chibi
cake. Now if you look at the human figure you have your head and then your body is
about four heads tall which is way too skinny to make into a normal-sized cake.
So what we’re gonna do is take our normal figure and then just shrink it
down so that you notice the head is now a lot wider and a bit more round like a
baby shaped head and one head is the height of the body rather than having
four which is much better for a cake. I’m gonna use Luna from Final Fantasy to
show you how to make the chibi cake. Final fantasy XV: A New Empire has
sponsored this video and there’s a link in the description below where you can
download the free mobile game so that would be great if you could click on
that and do that and I’ll show you how to play it after we’ve made the cake. So
the first thing you’ll need to do is print and cut out all of your template
pieces. If they’re too big to fit on one sheet they’ve got a little join here
with crosses on there just join that together and sticky tape it together and
cut it out. Now I want you to find this piece here this one is showing you how
the supports need to go. Luna has a big ponytail at the back of her head and
there’s no way a cake will be able to hold that weight. The head is already
quite heavy towards the back of the cake and if we add the weight of the ponytail
it’s just going to fall off. So what we need to do is create a strong support, so
we use a normal upright that will go straight down the middle and bolt into
the cake board to hold up the head and then we’re going to need 2 cake boards
in the middle we’ll have one that sits right here and another one that sits
slightly to the side there to hold up those layers of cake. Then the other
thing we need is something here … so the way I’m going to do that is use a
picture hook that fits quite tightly over the top of my support rod and then
grab a smaller support rod and add it to the pole to support that ponytail there.
Okay put your central support through the bottom of the board and you’ll
notice I’m using a reasonably large wood baseboard you will need that with all
gravity-defying cakes like this to stabilize it so that it doesn’t tip. Then
screw a hex nut screw down to the board all the way down to the bottom and
tighten that up so that that central pole is secure and it’s not going
anywhere. Use the template to cut out the body
pieces out of cake and then all the layers for the head and you’ll find all
the recipe details for the cake and the frosting and everything else on the
howtocookthat.net website and there’s a link to that below the video. Once you’ve
cut them all out make up some vanilla buttercream and add a little bit of that
buttercream around the base to hold the cake in place. Add your first layer
of cake and continue to stack up your body pieces and then check that they’re
the right height using the body template. Now if you look at this next bit, you
have a cake board support here and this is the view from the front this is a
view from the side … if we put that there we have this little bit underneath. If we
make that out of cake it’s just going to fall off so what we’re going to do is
make that piece now on the bottom out of fondant.
Wet the board so the fondant sticks and then use your hands to flatten it down
towards the edges. Now if you look at the template again you can see it’s thinner
at the back and a bit more bulky at the front so make one side a little bit
flatter just using the palm of your hand. Then turn it and look at the front
template and you can see it peaks in the middle so just use the palms of your
hands again to flatten it out either side so that it’s coming up in the
middle. Then you can check your shape is correct against the side template first
and then against the front one and that looks about right. Screw the nut down to
the position of that board and add the cake board over the top and then put
another bolt on top just to make it extra firm. I’ve covered the top of the
wood in plastic and now I’m just going to add a little bit of buttercream to
make the cake stick and then make sure you pay attention to where the layer is
sitting it’s not central to the support pole
more space to backwards. So place the cake over the template line up where the
central rod is and make a hole there so you know where the cake sits then add
that into place over the top so you’ve got the bigger part at the back and the
narrower parts are on the sides of the cake. Repeat that with the next layer and
then add another nut and the next support board. Put another hex nut on top
of that and tighten it up and then add your next layer of cake. Now we want to
add in an angled support so we can have that rod to support the ponytail. Now if
the person you’re making doesn’t have a ponytail you can leave this part out
altogether. Add your angled support in and then add your next layer of cake
just making a straight cut to make it fit around that angled rod and then keep
stacking your cake up to the top. Now take your side template and line up the
bottom line of it with the bottom cake board and cut around the template, now
all of the chibi characters have a very similar baby face shape so you can use
this template for whoever you’re making guy or girl are all very similar. Then
turn the cake to the front add the front template and trim off any little bits
that are sticking out on this side. So now we’ve cut around this way using the
front template and we’ve cut this way using the side one so that leaves the
corners. They don’t need much off them just a little bit to round out the head.
The other bit I need you to carve is here this is where the eyes sit … you’ve
got your cheeks and the eyes and you need to flatten out the area just above
the eye only a little bit just take off a tiny bit on each side and don’t take
it off in the centre where the nose is. Do the same thing to shape your body
just put the template into place and cut around it, then you want to cover the
whole cake in a layer of buttercream. Once it’s all covered use a strip of
acetate to smooth the buttercream all the way around the head.
Take a hemisphere mold and fill it with chocolate and then once those are
set just push down on one side to get that out then using some more chocolate
that’s starting to set join those two hemispheres around the support rod and
this is going to be that rounded bit of the ponytail that’s sticking out at the
top. Next we need to make her Trident so that has time to dry out. Put some
non-stick baking paper over the top of the template and add a thick snake of
yellow fondant then cut it at the top to match the shape on the template and
squash the base slightly and cut that too. Add two more snakes for the prongs of
the trident on the sides and then cut a ball the fondant in half and round it out
again it tends to get a bit squashed when you cut it and then add those on
top. Now you’ll notice this doesn’t look skinny like Luna’s trident does in the
game … I’ve tried to make everything chubby and cartoon like to match the
figure. Add a diamond type shape to the top too and then use some edible pink
dust to shade one side and then you can just leave that so the fondant can dry
out and go hard. Now it’s time to make the little cute nose now you can see the
shape of the cake that we cut out and we need to make this nose shape out of
fondant. Roll some fondant into a snake and flatten one end where it’s going to
join onto the head and then you can just cut that nose to the right length. Turn
it over and using your fingers make it into a ridge in the centre so that it
comes up so if you’re looking at it from one end it should look like a triangle.
Then add that into place on the cake. Roll out a rectangle of fondant and
spray it lightly with cooking oil I like to do this because I find it just gives
you a bit more time to smooth the fondant onto the cake before it starts
to dry out. Pick it up and carefully wrap it around the front of the cake and use
the palms of your hands to smooth it around the face. Squeeze the excess
together at the back and on top of the head and keep smoothing it on to the
face and around under the chin. Use scissors or a knife to trim off any
excess fondant. Cut around the ear template and then use your knife to
round it out so you don’t have any sharp cuts that you’ve done …
now some chibi characters have a bit more of pointed ear shape it’s up to you
if you want it really pointy or if you want it more round you can just adjust
that how you like. Now it’s time for the big eyes … cut out the white of the eye
and then add a snake of black across the top and trim it to the right length. If
your character is a girl you’re going to want to add three spikes to the top for
hair beautiful lashes. Roll the ball of pale blue and squash it down until it
matches the shape on the template. Using some food coloring shade the top section
of the eye then roll some really thin snakes of black or you could use a
fondant extruder if you’ve got one and take one of those and wrap it around the
eye so it’s got like a black outline. Take an oval of deeper blue and
squash it down in the centre, now I want mine to be a bit darker blue than that
so just using gel food colour I’m going to paint over that to deepen that color
I’m also going to darken the shade at the top of the eye too. Then lift that up
and place it carefully onto the white of the eye and then it’s time to add that
little black dot to the eye which is a little reflection of light that makes it
look alive. You can add just one dot to each eye or
you can add a second smaller dot too. Add the eyes into place just next to the
nose being careful not to bump the blue that you just painted. Now some things
are quite hard to do when you’re filming for me because I am filming it I have
the camera between me and the cake I can’t quite look at the cake at the
angle I want to look at it on and I wrapping my hands around the camera so
it’s a bit tricky but I think we can do it … there that’ll do, there you go. Onto
the brows. Roll out a snake of yellow and trim it to the size shown on the
template and then flatten that down a bit. This other black little bit here is
the eye crease and you make that exactly how we made the eyebrows. Add the
eyebrows into place and the eye crease just using a small amount of water to
make them stick. At this stage it should look like a giant baby doll like this 🙂
Now put the mouth template where it should go and then using something
rounded like the back of a paintbrush rub on the template and what that’s
going to do is it’s going to make an indent into the fondant in the shape of
the mouth. Remove the paper template and use it to cut out some deep pink fondant
and add a strip of white across the top and then place that back into the indent
that you just made for the mouth … awesome! Now it’s time for her clothes … obviously
what you do here depends on what the person you’re making usually wears.
Luna’s often depicted wearing a white dress so that’s what I’m putting on her
today. Before I do the bottom of her dress though I want to cover the cake
board and for that I’m just gonna swirl together some white and blue fondant
don’t mix it all the way together just swirl some together roll it out so it’s
paper thin and then put it over the board. The reason I made it super super
thin is so we use as little as possible because nobody is going to eat the
fondant that’s on the cake board. Now roll a rectangle of white and drape it
around the body letting it hang down onto the board like it’s an extra-long
dress, then use the back of your paintbrush again to add creases into the
dress fabric so it looks like it’s swirling around. It’s a really useful
tool the back of a paintbrush, start selling them just as ‘Back of Paint
Brushes’. Now to make marshmallow for their hair I’m going to use glue
syrup butter lemon juice sugar citric acid water gelatin sheets and some more
water. Take the gelatin sheets and place them
in one at a time into that water so that they can soften and you just want to
leave them to soak. To the glucose syrup add the citric acid the water and the
sugar and bring that to boil over a high heat until it reaches 113 degrees
centigrade. Now while you’re waiting for that to get up to temperature add the
butter to the lemon juice and heat that in the microwave until the butter is
melted. With your mixers running on low speed pour the hot sugar syrup in and
then add the soaked gelatin sheets and any water that was left in that bowl. Now
those sheets should dissolve pretty quickly into that hot liquid. Then turn
your mixer on to high speed and once it starts to increase in volume add some
food coloring to make the hair the color that you want. Then mix in the lemon
juice and butter then continue to beat that on high speed until the bowl no
longer feels hot it should be very very slightly warm not much at all and it
should be really whipped right up. Place that into a piping bag and pipe thick
pieces for hair onto some non-stick baking paper. Keep piping lots of strands
make sure you pipe more than you think you’ll need … you can always get someone
to eat the leftovers but it’s easier to do it now than it is to make another
batch. Luna has a braid in her hair so I’m going to pipe 3 long pieces of
marshmallow for that and then you can take any leftover marshmallow mixture
and spread that out onto the baking paper in a flat sheet. Once that’s set
you can just use it to wrap it around the head like a scarf so it gives the
sort of base color for our hair so you can’t see any skin color under our
strands of hair. Add another piece to cover the chocolate so we can’t see that
either and then add the strands of marshmallow hair that you made. To get
the marshmallow to stick to itself I melted the underside of the marshmallow slightly on a hot pan and then put it
where I wanted it and then while it was setting you need to take any weight off
it just by resting the hair up on top. Once it set you can put that back down.
The advantage of using marshmallow instead of fondant for the hair apart
from the fact that it tastes great is you can make the hair really thick
without using copious amounts of fondant. You can also easily remelt some of the
marshmallow and use that to pipe on details and pattern onto the hair which
is quite nice. To make the braid spray the marshmallow first with cooking oil
so it doesn’t stick to itself and then just braid away like you would with
normal hair. Once you’ve got that long enough add it over the top of Luna’s head
and her hairstyle is complete. To make her arms roll a cylinder of fondant and
flatten it at one end for her hand. Trim it off to the right length for your
fingers and split it deep for the thumb and then shorter for the fingers … now you
can make her have five fingers if you want or if you want it to be a bit more
cartoony four fingers is the way to go. Round out each of the fingers and then
add that into place and brush some pink petal dust onto her cheeks. I really like
the way the marshmallow actually has movement to it just like real hair would
in the wind or in a breeze, it makes it look really different to any other cake
that I’ve seen before. I think it turned out really well 💕
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