How to create Maggie's Fur!

Here is how I created the fur on my Westie Dog Cake. This is the tool I used (I'm not sure of the name) it comes in the PME Miniature tool set.

Once you have covered your body with fondant take this tool and mark the whole body with some wavy and some straight lines, working quickly.

Come back over your work again but this time push the tool into the cover at different places over the body to give depth to the fur.

This is how the finished body should look.

With the front legs and tail I rolled out the fondant making sure the sides are thinner than the middle. With the same tool mark the fondant in the same way as the body but as you near the edge pull the fondant out to give the edge a feathered effect.

Place this piece over the leg and attach to the body. You use the same joining method for the tail and the neck.

Using the same tool mark over the joins until it blends in with the rest of the cake. This join is not as good as what was on the cake, I was also trying to find a dog lead for my husband, change a DVD for my daughter and get a drink for the other!!!!

The same method is used to add the pieces over the nose, around the ears and the sides of the head, the only difference is I put little cuts in these to feather it even more.