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Today we are going to look at how to make a Thomas the Tank Engine face out of fondant.
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The face is usually what lets most of the Thomas cakes down, because it's very hard
to make out of buttercream, so you need to use your fondant.
First of all roll it out.
The size of the circle that you want depends on the size of the cake, so you'll have to
measure how round your cake is and do one the same size.
Then cut out a circle for the face, take away the extra fondant.
Then we want to make a nose, roll it into a ball, and then make it more teardrop-shaped.
You want to make it slightly smaller than the nose is going to be in reality, because
what we are going to do is put all of the features on this side of the fondant, and
then flip it over.
Then pop that there in the middle.
The next you can see that it goes the whole thing is raised at the top there; so to do
that we are going to roll some more fondant out, cut it like that, pop that one on keeping
the eye socket tops round and aligned with each other.
There like that.
And then we can just trim off the excess.
Now under his eyes he's also got quite fat cheeks.
We don't want that to be as big as the nose, we want it to be smaller.
So roll that like that, pop it around the cheeks towards the edge.
Same on the other side.
His bottom lip is a little bit up too, so we put that bit there.
And then, just a little bit raised here round the sides, so not much, just a thin snake,
and pop that one around the edge.
There like that.
And now we're ready to flip it over, very gently.
You just need to push the edges down, that gives you that nice shape of his face.
And then just very gently push down where his eyes were, make the shape of his nose,
and you can see now that the nose is quite a bit bigger than the teardrop we did on the
other side; so that's why we made the teardrop smaller than you need.
Just define his cheeks there.
And then to make his mouth, we're going to get something that's about the right shape
that's round and we just pop it in, and pull it down a bit.
Then just using a knife just round off the, smooth off the edges.
Grab some white fondant.
Easiest way to get them even is to roll it into a ball, and cut it in half, and then
roll each of them into a ball.
And then pop then in the eye socket, and then gently squash it down to make the eye shape.
Then you need black, roll it out.
Using a straw cut some circles, and then using the other end of the straw we are going to
pop them into place.
We need to get the eyeballs in the same position; or it's going to look strange.
And then his eyebrows.
Make the fondant a little bit thinner, cut two straight lines, and just keep cutting
triangles until you've got two that you're happy with for the eyebrows.
And two that look roughly the same size and shape.
Then you can put the eyebrows in place.
And then all you do is you leave that to dry.
And once it's completely dry you will be able to lift it up quite easily to pop it on your
cake.
And there you have the Thomas the Tank Engine face.