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I have said it before: I am not an arts and crafts girl. I think its because I am not a perfectionist, and easily get bored with what I am doing. As a result, when Mary asked me to do the food for her shoot, I said, “Sure,” and called Becca up. This was going to require her expertise.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We started with food gels, which I now will swear by. If you need to dye something and you really want it to become a rich, deep color, then you need food gel coloring.<\/p>\n

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We also needed fondant for this project. I had never worked with it, but since have worked with it several times, and I am still of the opinion that I’d rather have a cake look less “perfect” and be covered in frosting, any day. It’s not that fondant tastes bad, it just doesn’t taste\u00a0good\u00a0<\/em> and as something that’s mostly sugar, I feel like it should. Plus, after you use your hands to color, mold, and build something out of fondant, you’re less likely to actually want to\u00a0eat\u00a0<\/em>that thing you just made of fondant.<\/p>\n

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Back to food gel coloring. It is the consistency of jelly, and it will definitely produce the actual color you want.<\/p>\n

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We started with the lightest color we needed – yellow, and worked to dark. We needed the primary colors, plus black.<\/p>\n

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Becca was generous to do the primary colors. I agreed to do black.<\/p>\n

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My hands may look purple, but it ended up being black. Becca and I had colored hands for a week. But unless you have a fondant roller, you really need to do this by hand.<\/p>\n

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So we wrapped the fondant in wax paper and kept it overnight for when we were ready for rolling out! I used Illustrator to create the templates for our fondant toppers.<\/p>\n

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Here is Becca, working on Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n

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I had to rework the Superman, but I think I got it.<\/p>\n

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So make cupcakes, and pipe some frosting on them. Ideally, these would have had bigger muffin tops.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow I’ll show you a few behind the scenes photos, as well as how to make the pretzel rods and pie we made for the shoot – stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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