American Baker in Germany

 Two things: First off, my daughter loves Paw Patrol. Second, I'm not the best modeler in the world. I try, but don't often succeed. However, I've come to realize that especially when making recognizable characters, it is much easier and much more effective to make them 2D using a template than trying to model the characters from scratch. Hence, for my daughter's birthday cake, I decided to make Skye and Everest as 2D cake toppers using a template. First, here are my templates: When choosing a template to use, you want to choose a simplified image with as few colors as possible. Since I'm making two figures, I begin by making a background to stabilize the image so it can be picked up as one piece and place on the cake. I used a circle cutter and cut out two white fondant circles. Then I rolled out more white fondant and traced around the lines with a pointed fondant tool to make an impression in the fondant. Then I cut around the outside with a knife. I used the sam...