1/12th tutorial: Churros with chocolate
Hello!It's been a while since I've been here :p, I have 2 mini big projects (yea as you read it!) going on for my portfolio and between work and my projects I dind't have the time to upload or finish this tutorial I've mentioned like 1 month ago *ouch*.
Anyways, now that you know why I haven't been here for a while ... lets go back to our thing!. Today I'm sharing with you a simple but useful way of making churros plus some easy tricks for you to use in other projects.
Churros
with chocolate
Materials
Fimo:
translucent, vanilla and brown
Liquid fimo (or similar)
Tile
or plastic surface to work
Facial wipes (to keep your hands clean all the time while working)
Small
ceramic plate (if you have one)
Toothbrush
(that you don’t use anymore)
Razor
blade
Cake decorating tip n. 23 (a very small one)
Toothpick
or needle (small)
Small
container (to mix the liquid clay)
Ceramic plate
Needle
or nail (to add texture)
Soft
pastels: dark brown, middle brown, ochre
Brush
Varnish (matte)
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In
this recipe we’re going to learn how to make ”sauces” and some simple effects
to add more realism to your mini scene.
A
small cake decorating tip is going to be the tool to make the churros but, it
also has other uses, keep it into your mini making stash since I’ll soon show
you other useful tricks with it.
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Dough
recipe
1 part of translucent, half of vanilla.
**Useful advice**: if the clay is a bit cracky or dry, put a little bit of liquid fimo
and mix till it softens, if you added too much, just shave a tiny bit of
vanilla soft pastel until you have a smooth mix.
Take
a small piece of the dough and put it into the decorating tip (you’ll see why I
said it was important that the mix is smooth!) and push with a dotting
tool/back of a brush.
Use
a needle tool/nail to remove the churro from the the cake decorating tip, and
carefully with your fingers smooth the edges.
**Length of the
churro** around 1,25 cm/1,3 cm (the equivalent of 15 cm)
This
picture shows you the 3 shades of brown that we’re going to use (same ones of
the “Hot chocolate and donuts” tutorial):
Ochre
for the base color
middle
reddish brown for the “golden areas”
Dark
brown for the “a little burnt” spots.
A
coat of ochre soft pastel.
*** Don’t be afraid to cover the whole churro,
actually that’s the point! Remember that all your coloring has to be done now,
and that dough has an intense golden color when it’s cooked ****
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The
middle brown for the “more cooked” areas.
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A
touch of dark brown in certain spots for the “more burned” look.
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Use
the toothbrush to give it a more irregular look on the surface and the needle
to accent the inner parts of the churro. The toothbrush might erase them a bit.
**
Sometimes you’re going to texture your food after painting it, it’s not a law
that it has to be always texturing 1st and shading later! It will depend on the
projects you’re doing**
Use
the toothbrush to give it a more irregular look on the surface and the needle
to accent the inner parts of the churro. The toothbrush might erase them a bit.
**
Sometimes you’re going to texture your food after painting it, it’s not a law
that it has to be always texturing 1st and shading later! It will depend on the
projects you’re doing**
Making the chocolate sauce!
When
the mix is ready, add a bit of the dark brown. The brown color clay is not the
right shade for chocolate, the soft pastel will make it look just perfect ;)
**Useful
advice** Leave the mix for a few hs aside so that it mixes
itself, then take it again and stir it a bit more**
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This is how your sauce has to look like |
The finishing touches:
Take
the ceramic plate and knife and put a bit of liquid fimo to the plate to glue
your churro (or as many as you’d like to), now put a bit of the chocolate on
the plate next to the churros. Now the knife; we want it to look like if
someone was putting chocolate to its churro, so carefully take a bit of the
sauce and put it to the knife.
Take
a small amount of tin foil, put the plate and the knife, and add some bits of “chocolate
spills”.
Bake
it for 5 min, take it out and let cool.
Use
matte varnish (on the churros) to seal it.
Decorating the scene
Add
the chocolate spills close to the knife, some to the plate and glue them with
super glue. I dind’t glue them before cos I wanted to decide later where to put
the spills.
An interesting scene –as I always say- has still life. Look as my churro, I splitted it, added some chocolate and it looks like someone was around, enjoying it (I would for sure! Lol). A doily or bowl with chocolate add detail to the piece. If you have a cup of coffee or tea, feel free to add it to this cute scene
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Comments, suggestions, questions are welcome :)
A
Genial!!! Gracias por compartir el tutorial. Besos
ReplyDeleteGracias Eva! me alegro que te guste!
DeleteEspero que te diviertas mucho haciendo churros para tus mini proyectos :)
Saludos !
Nice tutorial! I like all of your special tips! xo Jennifer
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