Frozen Yogurt Tutorial

It's been a while since I've last uploaded anything, sorry about that!  But this time I have a super cute tutorial (filled with pictures!) I hope you will all enjoy.  Activa Products kindly sent over some Hearty air dry clay to try out, here's what I came up with.

I'm a huge fan of using multiple mediums to get the desired effect and was super excited and eager to try out how Hearty air dry clay worked.  When mixed with a little bit of water, you can make a paste and pipe it out.  It was a little tricky at first to get a "perfect" swirl look so I suggest doing a couple practice swirls first.

Have fun and enjoy this tutorial! Feel free to share your creations with me :)

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich & Tutorial

Peanut butter jelly time!  Sorry I've been gone for so long.  Lately I've felt very tired and uninspired to make any miniatures.  In fact, I'm too tired to write any more on this post so I'll leave it short and sweet.   There's a video tutorial for these miniature pb&j sandwiches below; follow along and share you creations with me :D

Disney Parks Frozen Treats & Tutorial

Have you ever noticed those little carts around the Disney parks that sell ice cream & frozen treats?They usually have a display with the fake ice creams on it too.  I decided it would be really fun to recreate those treats!  My personal favorite is the Mickey Mouse ice cream sandwich, but I won't deny any ice cream, it's all delicious!

Stick around to the end of the post, I made another video tutorial for you!  It's a long one, but I think it's worth it 

Prepping all the pieces for baking and then  given them a dip in "chocolate" :P


 
   

Disneyland's Diamond Celebration

It's Disneyland's 60th anniversary!  For their diamond celebration, Disneyland rolled out a bunch of new diamond celebration themed treats.  The Mickey & Minnie candy apples were already adorable, but somehow they became even cuter!  I attempted to recreated them in 1/12th scale; you can even follow along in the video tutorial below:

From the work in progress shot, you can see I intended on making quite a few Mickey & Minnie candy apples.  The original 12 candy apples were ruined when I was experimenting with the sugar coating.  The first attempt, I tried mixing blue chalk with the sand and then sealing it...that turned into a hot mess! It started turning splotchy and lumpy :( Splotchy I don't mind since you can add several layers to make it opaque, but the lumpiness was driving me insane.  

So on the second attempt, I painted the bottom half of the apple in blue acrylic, dipped it in sand, and then sealed it.  This turned out a lot better.  I feel like remaking these again with a more vivid blue, though.  Yeesh, never satisfied am I? 

The Daily Miniature Interview

Hi all!

I hope you are all having a wonderful July (side note: we're already halfway through 2015?! Holy smokes) It's been a great month so far, and to top everything off I was interviewed by the lovely The Daily Miniature.  If you want to read the full interview, please follow the link below:

http://www.thedailymini.com/daily-mini-interview-miniatures-microbakery/

Hope you enjoy the read!

TheMicrobakery's One Year Anniversary!

Can you believe it, it's been a a full year since I started TheMicrobakery!  It's been quite a journey with a reasonable learning curve (knowledge is never a bad thing!).   I was always interested in the different aspects of blogging, photography, editing, and miniature making; all I had to do was throw it all together.  Although in the beginning I was hesitant to share my creations, the feedback has been absolutely astounding in the best way.

With that said, I want to thank all my viewers.  Thank you for all the comments, likes, shares, and subscriptions/follows.  I also must add, a huge thank you to everybody who has been patient when I don't upload anything for days (possibly even weeks, oops!) at a time.  Sometimes real life catches up and it can be quite difficult to make miniatures.  Anywho, it's been great interacting with a community who are just as excited about miniatures as I am.  While there is still a lot to improve in all aspects of TheMicrobakery, I can't wait to see what the future holds. :)

Don't you worry, of course I was going to include an obligatory hand photo; I know you guys like it.
 

Much appreciation & many thanks,
              TheMicrobakery

Happy 4th of July!

For those of you that live in the United States, Happy Independence Day!  I hope everybody has a wonderful weekend celebration filled with fun, laughter, food, and of course fireworks.  I've put together a few July 4th treats for you, enjoy :)

Here's a little sneak peak behind the scenes.  To make the sprinkles on the ice cream sandwiches I mixed (separately) a pinch of red, white, and blue with a lot of translucent clay.  Then I baked the clay hard; once it cooled I used a sharp razor blade and chopped away at it.

To make the sprinkles stick, brush on a light layer of translucent liquid sculpey around the ice cream and then dip the sandwich in the sprinkles.  Just give it a try and don't be afraid to try other techniques :D 

Or should I say, 'Murica? 

Linzer Jam Cookies

This week, I'm sharing how to make tiny raspberry (or strawberry) jam linzer cookies.  This is one of my mom's favorite cookies and is seriously irresistible. At the bottom of this post, I've included a video tutorial for you to follow along.  I was planning on making an entire baking scene, but that didn't pan out since I was kind of pressed for time :( Maybe next time I'll be able to do one.

Tip: While Fimo gel is quite thin yet very translucent and great for sauces, it's not the ideal consistency for a thicker jam.  So I usually end up adding in a bit of translucent clay to create a better not-as-runny consistency.

Tutorial:

Hot Cross Buns

This week's miniature is hot cross buns!  It was requested in the comments of my cake stand tutorial and thought it would be fun to make.  In all honesty, I've never actually eaten a hot cross bun, I'm only familiar with the nursery rhyme.  :P  But I know it's a very popular bread and it sure does look delicious!

Similar to the last two posts, I've created a tutorial for you.  I hope you enjoy it & share your creations with me! :D

  

D'Oh! - The Simpsons Themed Food

I have a fun post for you this week!  One of my friend's favorite show is The Simpsons and it also happens to be their birthday.  So why not make miniature themed Simpsons food for them?!  

They requested the classic Homer donut and of course I had to make a dozen! I also added a six pack of Duff Beer because it's classic Simpsons. While not part of The Simpsons world, it still went along with the look, and made a hot dog on a donut bun since they love hot dogs.

Just like last time, I created a video tutorial for you!  Please forgive me if my editing and colors are off, I'm still getting a hang of this :P Enjoy!

Cake Stand Tutorial

A tutorial for the cake stand I made last week was requested, so I thought I'd share it with you.  Sorry that everything has been taking longer to post, it's hard to find a chunk of time to do everything, plus  filming and editing Youtube videos definitely have a learning curve.

This is a pretty simple scalloped border cake stand that can be easily made more elaborate.  If you make it, I would love to see the results!