Monday 24 December 2012

Christmas Nibbles! (in 1/12th scale)

I felt like making some more polymer clay food the other day. It's odd, I find it incredibly relaxing!

Every Christmas we make up a selection of 'nibbles' to have as a kind of starter before we get the turkey and trimmings sorted out. They're usually small and light snacky things and my favourite is always these - cherry tomatoes with pesto and mozzerella on cocktail sticks. Here's the ones I made up a couple of years ago...

NOM!


 ...and the fimo version from the other day...

1/12th scale tomato, mozzerella and pesto bites


 The pesto is simply some green 'scenic scatter' for dioramas mixed with some clear nail varnish and a little drop of Games Workshop paint wash to give it a little more colour. The cocktail sticks are actually very very fine wire, painted afterwards. Annoyingly they make them look more like little stuffed chillies but oh well!

1/12th scale tomato, mozzerella and pesto bites


One thing that my parents love to get every year is Stollen. I'm not a big fan because I don't really like dried fruit (which explains why I don't like fruit cake, christmas cake, christmas pudding or indeed, mince pies!) but I love the smell and the look of the thing so I couldn't resist trying to make one for my little people who don't have such picky appetites!


1/12th scale Stollen

1/12th scale Stollen

1/12th scale Stollen

It's all fimo - the 'fruit' was baked prior to the actual loaf being made and then glossed with clear varnish to give it that lovely moist look. I mixed lots of other bits into the 'dough' of the loaf but they didn't really show up afterwards which was a bit disappointing so I ended up just shoving these ones in afterwards, texturing the surface, colouring it all with pastels and some thinned down paint and then baking. The sugar effect was created with a combination of oil, baking powder and pastel dust. I have no idea if it'll stand the test of time but it looks brilliant in photos so I'm happy. :P

1/12th scale Stollen
Bokeh ftw!
As I mentioned before, two of the other things I don't actually like are christmas cake and mince pies...

1/12th scale Christmas Cake

These photos are terrible but in reality that icing looks AMAZING! The cake texture itself is awful though; I wish I'd spent more time on it before I baked it. :/

1/12th scale Christmas Cake

The mince pies worked out really well though and I probably would eat one if they weren't so small...

1/12th scale mince pies
1/12th scale mince pies
1/12th scale mince pies


Now, onto things that I really want to make in real life!

1/12th scale white chocolate and cranberry cookies

White chocolate and cranberry cookies! I've got a recipe for these somewhere so I might see if I could attempt to make them sometime in the new year because they're just so damn tasty!

1/12th scale white chocolate and cranberry cookies

Same process as the Stollen with all the ready-made fruit/chocolate chips mixed in and I sprinkled some pastel dust over them before baking to simulate cinnamon.

Seeing as I didn't really like the christmas cake, I thought I'd go for something that I was sure to like instead - CHOCOLATE!

1/12th scale Chocolate Cake
1/12th scale Chocolate Cake
1/12th scale Chocolate Cake
1/12th scale Chocolate Cake

You can never go wrong with chocolate cake, let's be honest. ;)

So yeah, that's what I've been doing, well, I was going to say 'this week' but I actually made all that on the same day so it doesn't really count, lol. I have a rather exciting project starting at college that I can't wait to get started on but you'll have to wait a little longer to find out what as I need to do rather a lot of planning before I can actually do any making which is a pain but hey-ho.

Anyway, if I don't get the chance on the day I wish you all a very merry christmas/cake-nomming day and all the best for 2013! :D


EG out!

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3 comments:

  1. o.O *noms on keyboard before noticing her mistake* Wow, that looks all so incredibly tasty and real, you have outdone yourself!

    Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

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    1. Hahaha, thanks! :D I keep seeing real food that I want to make in miniature now!

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  2. it looks wonderful, Happy New Year

    Hugs
    Marisa :)

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