6 Animal Crossing Cupcake Ideas

Form a ball of modelling paste into an oval shape.

Flatten the upper part with your finger.

Form a pointed nose by gently pinching with your fingers.

Mark the eyes with a ball tool.

Bridge the gap between the eyes with a bone tool. This creates a curved indent across the top of the face.

Fill this indent with some dark brown modelling paste and secure with your fingers. I coloured my modelling paste brown with Sugarflair’s Dark Brown food colouring paste.

Mark two eyes holes with a bone tool. Move the tool upwards and downwards to create an oval shape.

Fill the eyes with two balls of white modelling paste. Secure with a bone tool, again moving upwards and downwards to make them an oval shape. Create two small holes in the white paste with the smaller end of a ball tool.

Fill these two holes with small balls of blue modelling paste.

To create the eyelids, form a small piece of modelling paste into a ball and then flatten with your fingers. Cut this in half and stick on the upper part of the eyes.

To make the ears, form two small balls of paste and flatten them slightly with your fingers. Make sure one end is thicker than the other. Use a bone tool to make indents in the ears, as can be seen above.

Stick the ears at the back of the head, as can be seen above.

Once dried, you can add some brown dust to Tom Nooks nose. I use a dusting brush to do this. The dust I use is PME Chocolate Brown.

Add some of the brown dust to the top of Tom Nook’s ears.

Lastly, stick two balls of pink modelling paste or fondant in the ears and flatten with a bone tool.

Using the same size piece as you did for Tom Nook’s head, form your modelling paste into a thick square shape with curved corners.

Flatten the top part with your finger.

Your modelling paste should look something similar to the image above.

To create the muzzle, use a bone tool to make an indent in the lower part of the face.

Fill the indent with white modelling paste. Make two eye holes with the small end of a ball tool. Move upwards and downwards to make them oval.

Add two balls of black modelling paste to the eyes

Add two sausages of black modelling paste above the eyes for eyebrows. Make them slightly tapered at the ends.

Add two tear shaped pieces of modelling paste above the eyes. Texture with a knife tool.

Use the scriber end of the knife tool to mark small holes in either side of the face. Fill these holes with brown modelling paste. I used the same colour that I used to make Tom Nook.

Add an oval shaped piece of black modelling paste for the nose and mark the mouth with a knife tool.

Add two white dots of modelling paste for the eyes. The ears were again made from the same colour as Tom Nook. Form long tear shapes, the same length as Isabelle’s face.

Stick them on either side of the head and texture with the knife tool.

Stick Isabelle onto a premade disc of white modeling paste.

Take a piece of each colour and form them into a tube. Make an indent in the cream paste and place the brown inside. Roll together to join.

Mould into the shape of Isabelle’s ponytail.

Trim to size and then stick onto Isabelle’s head.

Stick a strip of red modelling paste or fondant around the ponytail.

Add two balls of grey modelling paste onto the red strip for bells. Stick a thin piece of grey paste into the mouth.

Form a piece of modelling paste into a pear shape with a flat base.

Mould the top so it is narrower and curves slightly to one side.

Use a cone tool to mark a hole in the top.

I used my star plunger cutter to make a star shaped indent in the paste. Make sure the plunger is pressed down as you gently push it into your bell bag.

Your bell bag should now look similar to the image above.

Form a thin strip of red modelling paste.

Place this around the neck of the bag, making sure the ends cross over. I shaped mine with a blade tool. Leave to dry.

Roll out your modelling paste until it’s about 3mm thick. Make sure it’s not sticking to your mat before cutting out a small circle.

To make the ridge around the outside of the coin, I used the handle end of my star plunger cutter. Keep the circle cutter in place and gently press down with the handle end.

Your coin should now look like the image above.

Now use the other end of the star plunger cutter to cut out a star and stick it in the middle of your coin. Leave to dry.

Roll out the modelling paste and cut out a rectangle.

Now cut out a triangle and stick it on the upper part of the rectangle.

Lastly, stick a dot of red modelling paste or fondant on the point of the triangle.

Roll a tube of white modelling paste making it thinner at one end. Mine was about 5cm long.

Roll the tube to form a fossil shape. Cut out a small star with the plunger cutter. Leave these to dry hard.

Take a piece of purple modelling paste and form it into a circle shape. Keep it quite thick. Press the hardened fossil into the purple shape.

Press the hardened star into the side of the purple shape. Cut out a cross shape with a knife tool, as can be seen above.

Shape the edges to look more like a rock and leave to harden.