To make Olaf:
Start with white, black, brown and orange fondant. This is generally all the colours you need to make Olaf... You can colour the brown and orange yourself however I always buy black pre-coloured because you will never be able to colour it a true black.
Roll some white fondant into a ball (the size depends on how big you want your snowman!) please note during these photos there may be two lots of everything on one picture but that's only because I was making two different sized snowmen and thought it would be easier to document it as I went along.
This is for the face... As his face is quite long it's not going to be a "round" face. Slightly flatten the balls of fondant using your fingers or applying light pressure silicone rolling pin.
I'll try to explain as best I can for the next but it is kind of a visual thing...
As shown on picture one, squeeze 2/3 of the way up the flattened ball using your fingers to make a triangle type shape on one half of the ball for the lower half of the face (where his mouth will be), then turn the head around and squeeze the remaining 1/3 into a smaller "triangle" as the top half of his head. I know this is confusing but looking at the shape on the picture above should guide you to the desired shape.
The larger section is where his mouth will be. The second face on the picture is where I have squeezed out a top lip using my fingers in a pinching action, and then smoothing along the ridge to round it a little better. This may need a few trial and error (starting from scratch!) because I found I hadn't made the face big enough to manipulate a lip shape.
Using a toothpick, I then first plotted then carved out a mouth shape underneath the lip edge. You can also use a knife to define the inside of the mouth even more.
It doesn't matter the scraped out mouth isn't perfect or smooth as this will be covered by black fondant.
I also slightly squeezed the fondant and manipulated it with my fingers to redefine the lower lip as seen above
Next, I cut out a rough mouth shape (don't worry if it isn't very neat, this can be smoothed out once placed in the mouth "hole")
I also coloured some white fondant orange using "tangerine/apricot" paste by Sugarflair. This makes a really vibrant orange, however make sure to continuously wash your hands when handling vibrant self coloured fondant and black fondant or the colours will rub off onto white fondant and make everything look dirty!!! It's annoying!
I rolled the orange fondant into a small cone shape to represent the snowmans carrot nose
...And made small incisions using a knife for the edges of the carrot
I stuck both the mouth and the nose on using warm water. You can also see I have made an incision where I want he eyes to fall.
I then rolled a white sausage out of fondant for the lower lip, this is why it doesn't matter if the mouth edges are rough because the lip will completely conceal the edges.
Olaf so far.
Olaf has one tooth/one visible strip of tooth, so I rolled out a small rectangle out of fondant. For the eyes I flattened some balls of fondant (getting smaller) for
Eye shadow- black
Eye ball- white
Iris- black
Shine- white
Looking like a cartoon eye!
So so far we have his head ready to go, which means we're nearly finished. As he is a stereotypical snowman, his body consists of two balls of snow.
You want to roll them into two different sized balls, one larger and one smaller.
I used tooth picked to attach the whole thing together, which obviously you should warn whoever may take a bite out of him (ew) before they do!
Olaf's head is slightly at an angle so I thought it best to use a couple of sticks to get the right one
I rolled out three black pieces of fondant for his "coal" buttons and stuck them on with a little pressure (try not to use water much which colour fondant because it can run into each other!)
The way Olaf stands is usually on one leg, so I made a small "leg" from fondant.. This is another reason to take a week or two for the figure to dry because it should be strong enough for the figure to stand simply on one leg, however if this isn't possible I'm sure it would look just as good with two.
My two olaf figures
To make the arms stick out (which I didn't do on my first figure!) I have used brown fondant and tooth picks. As he generally stands with his arms stuck out I thought this may be an easier way. On the last cake I rolled pieces of fondant and prayed they dried.. I also stuck them to his body so they didn't really look like Olaf's arms
Again this is slightly hard to explain but the pictures should help. I rolled sausage shapes of brown fondant..
I slowly pushed the tooth pick through the fondant to make sure it didn't come out any of the sides
You can see they are quite thick once done, so I pinched the "back" of the arm and cut the excess fondant in order to make it look as thin as a twig
I pinched the end slightly and cut two small slits into the fondant for stick fingers
Next I carefully stuck the end of the tooth picks into the body in the position I wanted
To make the small sticks on top of his head, I rolled tiny bits of fondant and stuck them on with warm water
I added an extra leg and that's complete! Like I said before, unusually leave these to dry for at least a week before I need them however it is possible to leave it for less! They are completely edible (minus the sticks) however I wouldn't recommend it...
Lauren
