The edible farm animal tutorials continue! The gingerbread icing sprinkle sheep, modeling chocolate pigs, and modeling chocolate cows were lonely. They needed some crazy chickens in the mix.
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I started with a few balls of modeling chocolate. White, orange, red, and some googly eyes (white on black on white).
I shaped my balls into their respective body parts.
I started with the body, which is kind of shaped like a tear.
I used one of my Wilton tools to create a small indent in the bottom of it.
Then I placed it on top of my ball, which is serving as the lower half of the body.
I used one of my clay sculpting tools to put some indents between the two pieces.
I made the indents all around the edge.
Then I added one of the red parts to look like the wattle (had to look that word up).
For the other red part, I made some more indents with my clay sculpting tool.
I put the piece on the head for the comb (had to look that one up too).
Then I added some googly eyeballs.
I used my mini Wilton scissors for the orange part.
I cut a small slice through the middle to give the appearance of a mouth.
Then I used my clay sculpting tool to shape the mouth a bit.
I wanted it to have a bit more dimension.
I added the mouth under the eyes and over the wattle.
I made a two little wings (that I forgot to picture in the original photo).
With the addition of the wings, I had a cute little chicken!
Those eyes make him look a little crazy. I like it.
Other Cake Decorating and Gingerbread Posts:
Construction Grade Gingerbread Recipe (for building, not eating)
Gingerbread Recipe (for eating and building)
Reindeer Playing Poker – National Gingerbread House Competition 3rd Place Winner
Santa’s Gingerbread Mountain Chalet
Cardinal Family Christmas – Gingerbread Birdhouse
Gingerbread House Construction Tips
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