Bake a sheet cake the size that you need.With an icing filled bag and
round tip #5 draw thumbelina sitting in the middle of the flower on
the top of the cake. Cut the cake away from the shape.
You will use
a round tip #5 to do all the outline work and the star tip # 16 to do
all the fill in work. Outline the hair in medium golden yellow .
Fill it in with light golden yellow and medium golden yellow.
Next do
the face.The eyes are outlined in black and filled in with blue ,black
and white. The lips are done in red and the eyebrows are a medium
brown. Outline the skin areas in a light brown.
Fill in with a
flesh color that can be made by adding a tiny ,tiny bit of yellow and
red to white icing. The dress and bow in her hair are pink icing.
You may ,if you like, sprinkle pink edible glitter over the pink
icing.
The center of the flower is outlined in dark green and filled
in with light and dark green and medium golden yellow. Next do the
butterfly.Outline the butterfly in black filling in his body and wider
strips of his wings.
Fill in the orange areas of the wings.Now do the
flower. Each petal is outlined in dark purple and filled in with
light and dark purple. Finally, put the white dots on the black part of
the butterfly.