Bump up cute quotient with sugar babies

Molded sugar babies make great decorations year-round for baby showers, but you can gain seasonal sales by dressing the babies as mini Santas.

Sugar babies are a unique decoration to add to your deco-rated cakes, and they are quick and easy to make. My customers are enamored with these memorable keepsake sugar babies. I suggest making them a dozen or more at a time and storing them until you need them.

I chose to use Coating Chocolate instead of fondant to create the babies because Coating Chocolate sets quicker than fondant, and it is easier to un-mold and handle.

*For any or all of these figures, start with Candy Mold: Sleeping Baby ##90-11567

PRODUCTS
Piping gel for glue
Fondant Icing, colors shown or your choice
Sleeping Baby ##90-11567 Chocolate Mold
White Coating chocolate for baby mold
Candy Coloring for Chocolate - flesh or combo of pink & yellow
Food coloring, colors shown or your choice for coloring fondant
Gumpaste rolling pin #1907-1205
Dresden tool set #43-120BK
Ball tool #TB14N

Casting the molds

To create the babies, melt Coating Chocolate until it is completely melted. Once the Coating Chocolate is melted, paint the facial features with a fine-tipped paint brush. I recommend a #0. You can pour the flesh tone color into the mold.

Chill to set until cool and firm, about 20-40 minutes. Un-mold the babies. If you didn’t add the facial features when you painted the hair, use a VERY fine paint brush (#000) or food color pens to paint the babies' hair, eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, lips and cheeks. I would paint features before pouring the flash colored chocolate into the mold.

Store them at room temperature.

Wrap the baby in red fondant for a Santa suit. Add the black belt, and Use white fondant to create the beard, pom-pom at the tip of the hat and mold boots out of fondant. Place the boots below the baby's feet. the fur trim around the bottom of the hat and pants.

For Christmas cakes, a sleeping Santa makes a cute addition to your decorated items. Roll out a piece of red fondant to completely cover the baby from chin to feet. Use black fondant to create a belt, and wrap it around the baby's waist.

Next, create Santa's hat by rolling out a triangle of red fondant. Over-lap the ends of the triangle to create a cone, and trim off the excess. Attach the hat to the baby's head, and curl the tip of the hat under. Add a small ball of white fondant to the hat's tip for a pom-pom.

Use white fondant to create the white fur trim around the base of the hat and the bottom of the trousers. For the fur at the bottom of the trousers, extend the legs of the baby by adding the fur trim below the molded feet. Flatten a small piece of white fondant for a heard. Adhere it to the baby's face, and make a small opening for the mouth.

Make Santa's bag by pulling the edges of a piece of red fondant around a ball of fondant. Tie the bag with black fondant rope, and position candy canes sticking out of the bag. Cut strips of white fondant, and use a Dresden tool to ruffle one edge of the strip.

Layer the ruffled fondant over the baby's bottom from the feet to the waist. Cut a piece of green fondant into a trapezoid shape, and ruffle the long edges with the Dresden tool. After wrapping the green ruffled fondant over the baby to form her dress, add a white belt. Create a hat by ruffling the edges of a 2-in. circle.

Mold boots out of black fondant, and place them below the fur trim of the trousers. Roll out a piece of red fondant about t ins. in circumference, and place a ball of white fondant in the center. Pull up the corners of the red fondant to coyer the hall of fondant, and squeeze them together to form a tied sack. Adorn the sack with black fondant criss-crossed to look like a rope. and place candy canes sticking out of the sack.

Place the baby Santa and his sack on the cake or wherever you are using the decoration. Use white piping gel and sanding sugar to create snow around Santa and his sack.

Baby girl
To create the baby girl, roll out a strip of white fondant. Pull and flatten the bottom edge using a Dresden tool. Cut the strip into smaller lengths to cover the baby's bottom, and moisten the baby's bottom with water to adhere the strips. Start at the baby's feet, and layer the strips up to her waist. Emphasize the baby's waist by flattening the fondant at the top.

Roll out a rectangle of lime green fondant the length of the baby's torso, from chin to waist, and twice her width. 'Prim the short ends of the rectangle to form a trapezoid. Ruffle the long edges of the trapezoid. Moisten the top of the baby's torso, and gently attach the green fondant to create the little girl's dress. Fold down the fondant at the hay's chin to form a collar. Indent the fondant slightly at the waist, and tuck the dress under the baby's body.

Adorn the dress with a white fondant belt and bow. Make a hat by ruffling the edges of a 2-in. green fondant circle. Moisten the baby's head, and place the hat in position. Use blossom plungers to attach mini purple flowers to the hat and belt. Cover the baby's feet with green fondant to create booties that match the dress.

Roll out a circle of purple fondant, and emboss it with a plastic mat. Ruffle the edges of the circle to create the baby's blanket. Make a matching puffy purple pillow, and place it on the blanket. Attach the baby to the blanket and pillow, and carefully fold the blanket to make it look cozy and rumpled. Use water to attach the blanket to your cake or a fondant plaque.

Baby boy
The sugar baby boy and girl make wonderful decorations for baby showers, or use them to add a whimsical note to your showcases.

To create a baby boy, start with his shirt. Place thin, evenly spaced strips of yellow fondant over blue fondant. Then, gently press them together with a roller. Cut the fondant the same length as the baby's torso and twice his width. Moisten the baby to attach the fondant, and tuck the fondant underneath the baby. forming his shirt. Fold the top of the fondant down for a collar. Roll a piece of blue fondant that measures from the baby's waist to his feet and twice his width to form dungarees. Create the look of pants by indenting the fondant between the baby's legs and at the bend of his knees.

AS SHOWN: Layer the ruffled fondant over the baby's bottom from the feet to the waist. Cut a piece of green fondant into a trapezoid shape, and ruffle the long edges with the Dresden tool. After wrapping the green ruffled fondant over the baby to form her dress, add a white belt. Create a hat by ruffling the edges of a 2-in. circle.

Create the little boy's shirt by layering strips of yellow fondant over a rectangle of blue fondant that is the length of the baby from his chin to waist and twice his width. After wrapping blue fondant around the baby to form his dungarees, create his hat by using a ball tool to hollow out a piece of blue fondant.

Use a Dresden tool along the top of the pants to create the look of an elasticized waist and along the bottom cuffs of each pant leg. Attach narrow strips of blue fondant at the baby's shoulders to form straps.

Make two small, rectangle pockets with yellow fondant, and attach them to the baby's rump. Add a white fondant handkerchief to one pocket. For the baby's hat, hollow out a marble size ball of blue fondant using a large ball tool. Flip out one side to form the cap's peaked brim. Attach the cap to the baby's head using water. Combine yellow and blue fondant, and create the boy's blanket using the same method used for the girl's. Attach the baby and his blanket to your final product.

These cute sugar babies are sure to generate 'ooh's and 'ahh's from your customers, and in turn, rack up sales. Use them on decorated cakes or as additional decorations in your displays. Your customers will love these adorable, keepsake decorations.

From a bakery magazine winter of 2005
Shared by Dolores to those who don't own bakeries.
To be very honest, I have NOT done this baby so please don't ask me for more instructrusctions. I don't have any. Just sharing what I can with all of you.

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