How To Make Snail Fondant Figurine

Today I will show you how to make simple snail fondant figurine. We need three colors of fondant (brown, skin and black), straw and brush with little water. First we roll skin colored fondant in long roll of which the last 2/3 of the length is flattened. With the help of a plastic cup, lift the front part and leave in a position to dry, so it becomea a snail body. Roll brown colored fondant in long roll, flatten him with hand, where one side is little wider. On the wider side start to roll into a shape of snail house. On the dry snail body, moisten a place on the back, where the snail house will strand. Press the snail house with gently pressure to snail body, so they stick together. Roll two small skin fondants into two small rolls and bent the top portion to make tentacles. Roll the black fondant thinly and with a straw cut two black circles. With gently pressure stick them on the bent part of tentacles.

Roll out your yellow fondant and cut a rectangle long enough to go round your cake. Dust it lightly with corn flour and loosely wrap it around your rolling pin. Starting at the back of your cake, wrap the fondant around it slowly until you’re back where you started. You can then trim off the excess. Smooth the fondant with your hands or a cake smoother to remove any air bubbles. Cut out a 6” circle of fondant to cover the head. Smooth and trim as before and don’t worry about the join, which will be covered by the goggles!

Attach the eyes using edible glue and set them facing in your chosen direction so about a third of them are above the seam line. Place the goggles over the top, making sure you’ve left enough space between the eyes for them. Roll out your black fondant and cut a strip just under 2cm wide. Attach it around your Minion from goggle to goggle and voila, the seam has gone! Finish them off by adding the fasteners each side. For the dungarees, roll out a strip of blue fondant about the width of a ruler and attach around the base of the cake.

You can create a stitching effect using a cocktail stick, which is a nice extra detail. Roll some more blue and cut out a rectangle for the front and an elongated trapezium for the back. They don’t have to be exact as they are meant to look like fabric - you’ll need to judge the size needed depending on how tall your sponge worked out. Attach the panels top and bottom and add the stitching detail if you want. You can also add half an oval for a front pocket. Place the gloves you made earlier on each side of the body before rolling out a yellow fondant sausage and cutting it in half.



Smooth the ends and attach them to the gloves and the body. Remember that the Minions’ arms are quite low - about halfway down the body - and use edible glue to attach them. Water won’t be strong enough to hold the heavier pieces. Roll out a thicker sausage in the blue fondant and cut it into two pieces for the legs. Set them against the body at the edges of the dungarees, attach using edible glue and add the boots in the same way. I’ve added some buttons for extra detail on the dungarees too. It’s the eyes and the smile that give your Minion its own character.