Disney Parks Frozen Treats & Tutorial

Have you ever noticed those little carts around the Disney parks that sell ice cream & frozen treats?They usually have a display with the fake ice creams on it too.  I decided it would be really fun to recreate those treats!  My personal favorite is the Mickey Mouse ice cream sandwich, but I won't deny any ice cream, it's all delicious!

Stick around to the end of the post, I made another video tutorial for you!  It's a long one, but I think it's worth it 

Prepping all the pieces for baking and then  given them a dip in "chocolate" :P


 
   

Disneyland's Diamond Celebration

It's Disneyland's 60th anniversary!  For their diamond celebration, Disneyland rolled out a bunch of new diamond celebration themed treats.  The Mickey & Minnie candy apples were already adorable, but somehow they became even cuter!  I attempted to recreated them in 1/12th scale; you can even follow along in the video tutorial below:

From the work in progress shot, you can see I intended on making quite a few Mickey & Minnie candy apples.  The original 12 candy apples were ruined when I was experimenting with the sugar coating.  The first attempt, I tried mixing blue chalk with the sand and then sealing it...that turned into a hot mess! It started turning splotchy and lumpy :( Splotchy I don't mind since you can add several layers to make it opaque, but the lumpiness was driving me insane.  

So on the second attempt, I painted the bottom half of the apple in blue acrylic, dipped it in sand, and then sealed it.  This turned out a lot better.  I feel like remaking these again with a more vivid blue, though.  Yeesh, never satisfied am I? 

Happy 4th of July!

For those of you that live in the United States, Happy Independence Day!  I hope everybody has a wonderful weekend celebration filled with fun, laughter, food, and of course fireworks.  I've put together a few July 4th treats for you, enjoy :)

Here's a little sneak peak behind the scenes.  To make the sprinkles on the ice cream sandwiches I mixed (separately) a pinch of red, white, and blue with a lot of translucent clay.  Then I baked the clay hard; once it cooled I used a sharp razor blade and chopped away at it.

To make the sprinkles stick, brush on a light layer of translucent liquid sculpey around the ice cream and then dip the sandwich in the sprinkles.  Just give it a try and don't be afraid to try other techniques :D 

Or should I say, 'Murica? 

D'Oh! - The Simpsons Themed Food

I have a fun post for you this week!  One of my friend's favorite show is The Simpsons and it also happens to be their birthday.  So why not make miniature themed Simpsons food for them?!  

They requested the classic Homer donut and of course I had to make a dozen! I also added a six pack of Duff Beer because it's classic Simpsons. While not part of The Simpsons world, it still went along with the look, and made a hot dog on a donut bun since they love hot dogs.

Just like last time, I created a video tutorial for you!  Please forgive me if my editing and colors are off, I'm still getting a hang of this :P Enjoy!

❄ Holiday Baking ☃

Over the past few weeks, the Microbakery has been baking up a storm of holiday treats.  I'll keep the text minimal as I have quite a few pictures in this post.  Let the countdown to Christmas begin!

Pumpkin Pie

Cranberry almond glazed bunt cake

Pumpkin cake roll

Peppermint drizzle Christmas tree surprise loaf

Christmas Cookie Earrings

Well, it's that time of year again! Let the holiday festivities officially commence with Thanksgiving being the first event of the season.  Thanksgiving will be here in a few short days and once we come out of our food coma's, it's time to string up the holiday lights and place holiday wreaths on the doors.  Um, to be perfectly honest though, I'm one of those guilty people who "accidentally" left their Christmas lights up since last year.  What?! Fairy lights are really pretty at night, no matter what season.  So...uh...woops...

While it may be a bit premature to be thinking about Christmas, it's never too early to start working on Christmas themed miniatures.  You always have to start a couple weeks/months ahead to prep for all the extra miniatures you'll be making.  This year I decided to make a bunch of holiday themed cookie earrings for my friends and family as their gifts.  It's not the price of the gift that matters, it's the thought.  I put a lot of love and care into making these, I really hope they like them.

I first sketched the shape of each cookie (approximately 1 cm tall) on a large flat piece of clay and then individually cut and textured each one.  Then took a first pass applying light brown pastel for an all over "baked" effect and followed up with darker brown pastel around the cookie edges.

The cookies with frosting on them were created by mixing polymer clay with TLS.  Lastly I applied tiny clay decorations to them and baked it.

About a week ago I ordered surgical steel earring posts and backings off of eBay.  Finally after much anticipation I received the package and superglued the cookies to the flat pad earring posts.  I couldn't be happier with the outcome!  Hopefully my friends and family like them.

P.S.  I'm thinking about possibly making another tutorial.  If so, what would you want to see?

Haunt Your Disney Side

Lately, I've been dying to go to Disneyland.  See what I did there? No? Damn...  I like to think I'm clever and witty, not so much.  Running far away from that awful joke, I hope you all had a spook-filled Halloween!  Personally, I believe this "holiday" should be banished.  Permanently. Nada. Nope. Never again.  This may or may not have to do something with Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights, security guards, and crying.  I'm sure you can use your imagination to fill in the blanks, I'll just leave it at that.

While watching Nerdy Nummies make Maleficent candy apples, Ro mentioned there was a contest going on called Haunt Your Disney Side hosted by Disney.  You can create anything within four given categories (costumes, pumpkins, food, decor) that is inspired or related to Disney Parks.  Your photo could then be entered via their website, Instagram, or Twitter using the #DisneySideContest hashtag. 

Despite highly disliking Halloween, I knew I had to participate because the contest was being hosted by Disney.  DISNEY! DISNEY! DISNEY! Maybe I didn't make it clear enough how much I love anything Disney.  Does this technically fall under the category of "food," considering this is all made out of polymer clay? Meh.

Recognize this pumpkin head? His giant brother appears on Main Street every October.

Mickey ghost & pumpkin head cookies.

Mickey O'lantern, Maleficent, poisoned apple, and halloween Minnie Mouse Candy Apples

Mickey head shaped spider cake.

Mickey candy corn & Jack Skellington cupcakes with mummy hot dogs!

Graveyard "fondant" cake