Friday, July 14, 2023

Salt Dough Fun

 Faux Food Decor

I had some fun with salt dough recently and made up a few different faux food pieces.
Check it out:


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Faux Food Decor

After using salt dough to create my food items and letting it dry, I used acrylic paint (Folk Art brand in cinnamon) to add some color.  Just mix a few drops of paint with some water and then brush the liquid over your salt dough pieces.  It may take a few coats to get the color that you like, that's ok.  The important thing is to make sure that your dough has completely dried again before decorating.

You can find my salt dough recipe and drying tips here.

Here is what I made up:



Faux Food Decor
Faux Food Decor
Faux Food Decor

Some mini tarts, a handful of biscuits and a whole lot of cookies!  

The tarts I shaped by using a mini tin coated with a lot of flour so that the dough could pop back out.  The biscuits I shaped by hand and the cookies were cut out with a basic cookie cutter.  I also filled up a glass pie plate with dough so it looks like a pie crust.  I didn't get a photo of that in process, but this post shows faux pie making step-by-step.

And here is how I decorated them:



Faux Food Decor
Faux Food Decor

The mini tarts I topped with light weight spackle applied with an icing bag and tip and then embellished with faux berries



Faux Food Decor

The biscuits I left as they were and placed them in a bowl in my bakery closet.



Faux Food Decor

The cookies went into this vintage Pillsbury cookie jar that I found for $1 and then also joined the bakery closet.



Faux Food Decor

The pie shell I filled with light weight spackle and then topped with plastic berries.  The 'berries' are actually faux grapes, but taken from the stem I thought they looked berry enough 😄  Once I had all of the berries in place I added a few more dollops of spackle, aging using an icing bag and tip.

And there you have my salt dough fun!


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I hope you enjoyed this how-to post, thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer











4 comments:

  1. I love checking out your creations, always something new and genius.
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  2. I always leave your blog hungry for sweets Jennifer. They always look so realistic. Thank you for sharing.

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