Doll Size Toaster Pastries pt 1

 

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This week I am showing you how to make some toaster pastries for the dolls to enjoy. This will be part 1 of a 2 part project and we will make just basic whole toaster pastries. I will be showing you how to chalk them to look like the ones fresh out of the box as well as after a light toasting.

This is a really easy project and would be a good one if you just have a bit of experience working with polymer clay.

To begin we need to condition the clay we are using as well as mix a dough color of clay. If you are not familiar with what I mean by conditioning the clay I highly recommend you check out my polymer clay tutorial playlist on my channel. You can find it here. In that series of videos I go over a lot of the terms and techniques of working with polymer clay.

To get the dough color of clay I mixed some white clay and some Fimo Sahara clays together. You could use any light beige type color in place of the Sahara. I mixed them in equal parts to create a nice light dough/pastry color of clay.

 

I also created a couple of patterns to help me cut my pastries all the same size. For the patterns I used some 8 square to the inch graph paper. I have a PDF I downloaded from online that I print out a few sheets when I need then but you could certainly buy the graph paper or just use plain paper and measure and draw the pattern that way. I like the graph paper because it is so easy to measure out my pattern quickly.

The pattern for the pastry measures 1” by 1 3/8” and the pattern for the filling measures ¾” by 1 1/8”.

Now we can roll out the clay. Since the filling in our pastries today will never be seen I am using the same clay for the filling as for the outside of the pastries. You could use any color for this “filling” this week.

 

Since we need a thin sheet of clay I used 2 of the Hobby Lobby version of skinny sticks to help me get a nice thin even sheet.

 

 

 

 Once rolled I used the patterns to cut two pieces from the larger pattern and 1 from the filling pattern. 

 

 

Be sure to use some cornstarch on your work surface to help prevent sticking. Be very careful when lifting/moving the thin pieces of clay. Use your clay knife to help lift it off the work surface so you don’t stretch it out of shape.

 

 

 

 

Layer the pieces like a sandwich with the filling piece centered in the middle between the other two pieces.

 

Now we need to smooth the top layer of clay down around the filling and seal it to the bottom layer. I used a large ball tool but you could use the clean handle of a large paint brush or your finger tip. You want to have a shape like shown in this picture. Trim to size with your clay knife and the pattern.

 

 

 

 

Now use a pointed tool like the pointed dotting tool I used or a toothpick to make the little holes that are on the pastries in real life. I tried to make neat rows alternating between 3 and 4 holes in each row offsetting them so they lined up between the holes in the rows above and below. Like in this photo.

 

Now we can use some yellow ocher artist chalk and an eye shadow brush to add just a bit of color over the surface of the pastry. If you are making your pastries to look like they are fresh out of the box your pastry is ready to bake.

 

If you want to make your pastry look like it has been through the toaster add just a bit of a light rust brown color chalk around the edges and at the corners. Then follow up with a bit more of the ocher color to blend it.

Now time to bake, follow the instructions on your package of clay for temperature and bake for 12 minutes.

Allow to cool all the way to room temperature before the next step.

Next we are going to frost our pastries, for that I am using some liquid clay. If you want just white you can use the white liquid Sculpey and it will be perfect and I am going to do that on one of mine. But I want some color of two of my pastries so I need to add color to the white liquid clay. To add color I use oil paint. If you not familiar with this process I again recommend you you check out my clay 101 series to learn more about liquid clay and how to use it.

To make the caramel color frosting (like on the brown sugar cinnamon pastries in real life) I used white oil paint with a touch of burnt umber and a touch of yellow ocher.

For the pink frosting I used white paint with a touch of rose madder paint.

Mix a very small amount of the mixed paint into the liquid clay. Just use enough to color the liquid clay. Then put a drop of each of the colors you mixed onto any bake-able surface and do a test bake for 10 minutes at the same temperature you will be baking the project at. This will tell you a couple of things. Since the colors do sometimes shift a lot when doing this you will know if you have the color you want. And most importantly you will be able to determine if the clay will cure. If you add too much paint to it you will find it remains sticky and not set up when baked and cooled. You do have to wait until it is cooled to room temperature to check this.

Once you are sure that the colors are the way you want them to be spread a small amount on the top center of each pastry. Then if desired sprinkle on some tiny no-hole micro beads to act as sprinkles. Once you have them decorated the way you want them bake again at the recommended temperature for another 10 minutes and allow to cool before touching them.

 

 

And there you have it toaster pastries for the dolls to enjoy.

In part 2 we will be making pastries that are broken open or bitten so we can see the filling.

 

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