Mini Toasts

First off, not sure Im liking this new blogger update. Ill see how it goes though. Change is hard and I know Ill have to relearn everything multiple times before it sticks.

Alright, we are weeks into this pandemic lockdown and Ive finally spent some time making minis. I'm lucky that Im in California. The weather has been great and Alex and I have been able to spend a lot of time outside. BUT, it is getting a little boring. So I figured, whats not boring is sitting silently for about 10 hours alone squinting at a scalpel and clay. 

This is my first go at mini toasts and Im pretty happy with them. Of course there is always room for improvement. But also who cares, these just make it onto my fridge and my friends get them as gifts whether they want them or not. Making toast is very similar to making pizza.  I even used some left over "salmon", "lemon" and "orange" from other mini projects. So all in all, I have no idea why these took so long. 

Making mini toppings, including avocado. 

I did make avocado for the first time. I found a tutorial online that I followed. I made this without a pasta roller (Im not accumulating more crap for this weird hobby!) and it worked out okay. It took a few tries to get the right avocado shape. I ended up trashing the ones in the above pic. They were not quite pear shaped enough or thin enough. 

I also made a banana cane for the first time. After watching a few tutorials online, all by baby voiced women with inexplicably long fake nails, I decided just to make my own cane design up (see below). I mixed in a bit of translucent clay with some banana colors and huzzah a cane! Looks crappy big, but when you roll it super thin, it looks great. 

Mini toast components

I think Ill give toasts another go. Im still trying to figure out the texture of the toast. I textured them like cake, it took forever, I ended up covering up most of the texturing, and Im not super happy with the results...sigh. And like usual I made the toasty bits and crust with colored chalk (see previous post about bread). 

mini toasts

 I really like the nutella toasts, and they were the easiest to make. So I will make more of those in the near future. Also I want to make a few toasts with eggs on them. 

Miniature polymer clay toasts