When your marzipan is room temperature, pinch off small bits to form the characters you want. Use a knife, toothpick, etc to add details both before and after molding them. When molding you can either, or both, add edible color to the marzipan, and/or paint the marzipan with edible colors once the marzipan is dried. To do either, or both, you need about a week, to let the marzipan and the edible colors dry in between coats.
This Peter Rabbit has been molded from plain marzipan, then painted with edible colors after.
This is Peter Rabbit´s miniature birthday cake with bunny ontop....before painting with edible colors.
I had to wipe off some of this edible color, which ran into several other colors as I didn´t let them dry enough before starting a new color.
Experimenting a bit with the coat darkness, and hat....Benjamin Bunny...
Garden peas were molded all separate pieces, put together, then painted with edible colors after. This is the first coat, without any details. Below some of the jars of cake gel and other edible colors, marzipan, food color brushes and toothbrushes (all used only for food).
Meanwhile making, baking, cooling, slicing cake layers....and making green cabbages by adding edible colors to the marzipan...this version is immediately darker, more intense color.
Mostly finished pieces, atop a cake pan, to decide where to place everything, and to let it dry...then add more details....
Meanwhile, layering cake layers with first fig jam, then milk chocolate genache butter cream frosting...
Fig jam, more of the same frosting...til all 3 layers are complete....
Put the finished layers into fridge to chill....meanwhile roll out marzipan for layering over this....only once chilled more solid...
Finished cake....almost finished. Details added where needed, bottom marzipan trimmed, etc.
