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Yum! Har gow!
So...my family's from Southern China, and I was experimenting making whipped creams with different clay colors....and thought of this after seeing how translucent clay came out!

Soy sauce is made from brown watercolors painted after baking!

The other thing on the plate is siu maai!

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  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 1
    Step 1

    Take a small amount of light pink and orange polymer clay and mix together

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 2
    Step 2

    Form the mixed clay into a little ball (compared to a penny for reference)

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 3
    Step 3

    Roll out the translucent polymer clay (it helps to have a bit of cornstarch brushed on with a paintbrush to keep it from sticking)

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 4
    Step 4

    Place the ball of colored clay on the rolled out translucent clay

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 5
    Step 5

    Cut out around the ball so you have enough clay to thinly fold over the ball completely (it looks a bit like ravioli now)

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 6
    Step 6

    Roll into a ball, making sure no opaque pink-orange clay is on the outside

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 7
    Step 7

    Use a rounded piece of wire to make markings, as you would with whipped creams

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 8
    Step 8

    It should end up like this

  • How to mold a piece of clay food. Polymer Clay Dim Sum - Step 9
    Step 9

    Bake according to the instructions on the polymer clay packaging

  • Step 10

    You can make a bamboo steamer and attach them inside with TLS, or on a plate the same way

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Hdoddles
Hdoddles · 46 projects
very nice Happy
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