Shaping a Teddy Bear Nose for Cakes

Video Transcript

"Now I'll show you how to make the snout of our bear. I've chosen a few pieces of the larger pieces of cake that we've cut out and you want to just chose a few that when you put them together, will make a big enough piece for a snout and these are the pieces I've chose and I put them together like this and then you just want to trim and shape until you get sort of a snout shape. Now it doesn't have to be a perfect shape because the frosting will fill it out and give you the roundness that you want and then when you have it set, you can put a little bit of icing in between as glue and then we'll set that aside until we're ready to use it. Before frosting the cake, you want to take your snout piece and just try it on your teddy bear; make sure that it's a good size. It is going to end up being slightly larger because when you ice it over, it will give it a little more thickness. But that looks, that looks about right, okay. And if you want, you can frost it ahead of time and then leave it on the plate until it's ready. So this is what I would do, is just take some frosting and just frost that snout all around and then will set that aside and then when the rest of the cake is frosted, we can just lay it on and then we'll trim it; we'll just go over it one more time once it's on the cake. It's a little bit easier to frost the snout before it's placed on the cake and then we'll just touch it up once it's on the cake."