Grumpy Cat Cake Topper

Grumpy Cat aka Tardar Sauce is a bit of a sensation. But my niece wanted him as a topper for her birthday cake!

You will need:

• Ivory / Pale brown fondant
• Light brown fondant
• Dark brown fondant
• White fondant
• Pink fondant
• Pale blue fondant
• Black fondant
• Edible glue / water
• A cocktail stick or stick of uncooked spaghetti

Step 1: The body and head

• Using the ivory or pale brown fondant, roll a cone shaped body and flatten the bottom by tapping the cone onto your work surface a few times
• Using the same fondant, roll a ball in proportion to the body

Step 2: Face detail

• Cut a light brown circle that is in proportion to the face
• Cut two triangles, for ears, from the same fondant

• Cut a smaller white circle (right)

• Using the cutter you used for the white piece, cut away two sides of the circle so it looks like the shape above.
• You will need to model the very top into a straighter shape.
• Using a smaller circle cutter (I used a large circle piping tip) cut two pale blue curcles
• Cut the tops off both of these
• Stick all these shapes onto the brown circle (see final image)

Step 3: Underbelly bib

• From white fondant, cut an oval white shape for the underbelly bib

Step 4: The nose

• Using pink fondant, mould a sausage shape and make an indent on the bottom in the middle

Construction:

• Construct the face (as above) before placing on the head of the body
• My hands are not so steady these days so I will be making some adjustments to this. 
• Using some small black balls of fondant, stick these onto the pale blue almost half circles then, using white fondant, roll two even smaller balls to use as eye highlights.
• I messed the eyes up on mine to I waited for it to dry then coloured the misshapen highlights into a more presentable circle shape.
• Roll two skinny sausage shapes and trim to fit above the pale blue eyes
• Use an edible pen to draw on the sad mouth.
• Place the face onto the head ball
• Using a cocktail stick, insert this into the body leaving some to stick on the head.
• Place some glue around the visible cocktail stick and stick the head on
• Ensure you cannot seen the cocktail stick
• Glue the brown triangles on for ears
• Glue the underbelly bob onto the front  
• Roll some dark brown fondant into a tail and, sticking it at the back centre of your work, curl it around to the front

Allow to dry and top off your cake!