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Home » Character Cupcakes (Justin & the Knights of Valour movie)

Character Cupcakes (Justin & the Knights of Valour movie)

February 6, 2014 by Sarah / Maison Cupcake

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It’s been a while since I did any sugarcrafting so when the film company behind kids’ animated film Justin and the Knights of Valour asked me to celebrate the film coming out on DVD this week, the gauntlet was well and truly thrown down.

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I don’t know how this movie crept under my radar first time round, it’s stuffed with top actors and fun characters.

Justin wants to be a real knight of valour like his grandfather and after various adventures involving wizards, monks and crocodiles… well it’s a kids film so a happy ending is par for the course but there’s plenty of action and peril along the way. I guess it’s like Game of Thrones crossed with Shrek.

I decided to base a set of cupcakes on the characters on the DVD artwork.

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

I worked on each of the designs in stages, topping the cake bases with complimenting shades of sugar paste, mixing up that tricky flesh colour and stamping out faces each with slightly different shapes.

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Our hero, Justin, voiced by Freddie Highmore (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and more to the point, one of my all time favourite films, Ridley Scott’s A Good Year).

The perfectionist in me was horrified afterwards to realise his eyes are actually green but hey ho I got the freckles and hair right!

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

The feisty Talia voiced by Saoirse Ronan (previously in The Host and Atonement).

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

This being a medieval story we have long pointy dangerous swords.

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

Ok so this is Gustav. At first glance he looks like a dragon but in fact he’s a flying crocodile with orange wings.

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

This is Melquiades, a wizard voiced by David Walliams.

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

I use minimal equipment whenever I’m inventing designs such as these, the tools required were:

Non stick mat
Non stick acrylic rolling pin (these two aren’t essential but do make life easier)
Small sieve with icing sugar to dust surfaces lightly
Gel food colours in green, violet, orange, dark brown, royal blue, black and for the fleshy sugarpaste a tint of ivory, pink and brown.
Gold food paint
Small food quality paint brush
Oval cutter
Table knife to trim edges
Sugarcraft tools with semi circular and blade edges
No 2 size piping nozzles
Disposable piping bags
Cocktail stick for freckles!
No4 piping nozzle for crocodile nostrils!

On this occasion I used white Dr Oetker sugar paste tinted with gel. The darker green on the crocodiles was pre-coloured green from a Dr Oetker mixed pack but found it drier and less malleable.

In future I’d stick to colouring my own although surprisingly Sainsbury’s pre-coloured sugar paste has been my favourite over obvious sugarcraft brands such as Renshaw or Dr Oetker.

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

I try to keep them all the same but the little nuances with icing give each face its own character! The Melquiades on the left looks evil but the one of the right looks much friendlier!

Justin and the Knights of Valour cupcakes

I think Justin looks like Rodney from Only Fools and Horses!

If you’d like to see a clip of the film I’ve embedded one below.

For further Justin and the Knights of Valour inspiration check out:

Helen’s Easy Minecraft Castle Cake.

Katie’s Green Dragon Ice Cream Milkshake.

Michelle’s Knight’s Shield Pizza (genius idea!)

Justin and the Knights of Valour is out on DVD and Blu-ray from 3rd February. This post and themed cupcake project was commissioned for a fee.

Photos in this post were taken with the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows smartphone which I’m currently roadtesting and will publish a review soon.

Justin and the Knights of Valour

Filed Under: Branded Content, Recipes Tagged With: cupcakes, Sugarcraft

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Comments

  1. Fuss Free Helen says

    February 7, 2014 at 10:14 am

    I love your sugarcraft skills. Justin’s face is so expressive!

  2. Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

    February 7, 2014 at 11:42 am

    Thanks – I am wondering whether I should start a business of cupcake portraiture depicting peoples’ families on cakes alongside a set of photos of the cakes!

  3. Ren Behan says

    February 7, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    Cute and a very good likeness to Justin – not Rodney!!!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:03 am

      Although it occurs to me that some Only Fools and Horses cupcakes in similar fashion would go down a storm!!

  4. Fiona Maclean says

    February 7, 2014 at 9:01 pm

    tee hee, those are wicked! I couldn’t come anywhere close. My sis in law is into sugar craft though

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:03 am

      Thanks, I should do it more often really, have been “taking a break”!

  5. Heidi Roberts says

    February 7, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    Those are not cupcakes – they are works of art! Really cool!!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:02 am

      Thanks Heidi, it feels a bit weird eating them!!

  6. Sylvia says

    February 7, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    They look so cute! I never did sugar crafting myself but would love to try one day 🙂

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:02 am

      I’ll let you know when I finally organise classes!

  7. Tina @ The Spicy Pear says

    February 8, 2014 at 10:27 am

    Those cupcakes look amazing. You are incredibly creative and artistic Sarah. I’m afraid the only sugarcraft I know is making a rose, it is enough to impress my niece though. The figures on your cakes look just like the animation.

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:01 am

      Thank you Tina, I make a lot of roses too, they’re very effective.

  8. manjirichitnis says

    February 8, 2014 at 11:17 am

    I will have a Gustav one please! Lucky you road testing the Nokia Lumia I would love to do that too!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:01 am

      Gustav is very funny, reminds me of “Pete’s Dragon” from the 70s.

  9. AUXAI TARTAS says

    February 8, 2014 at 11:18 pm

    Love it! Thanks for sharing!

  10. Morgan @ Peaches, Please says

    February 9, 2014 at 6:27 am

    These are adorable! (and super impressive)

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:04 am

      Thanks, glad you like them 🙂

  11. emma white says

    February 9, 2014 at 9:53 am

    those look amazing and fun to do x hats off to people who can make things like this i just dont have the patience but well done xx

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:00 am

      Thanks – it’s just like colouring with crayons once you get the knack 🙂

  12. Urvashi Roe says

    February 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    Cute. The Justin really looks like Justin!

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:00 am

      Heh heh, long face, orange hair, can’t go wrong really!!

  13. Choclette says

    February 9, 2014 at 8:22 pm

    No idea who any of these characters are, but they are very cleverly executed.

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 10:59 am

      Thanks, they brought out the cartoonist in me!

  14. Karen Burns Booth says

    February 9, 2014 at 10:34 pm

    Like Choclette, I have not idea who these characters are, but the cakes are just amazing and such fun! Karen

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:04 am

      I’m surprised the film didn’t get more publicity on its cinema release, there are some big names in it. The characters are very well done, it was easy for me to imagine them all looking different in cake form!

  15. Jac -Tinned Tomatoes (@tinnedtoms) says

    February 10, 2014 at 12:36 am

    Brilliant, just brilliant! I love them Sarah.

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 10, 2014 at 11:05 am

      Thanks Jac!

  16. recipesfromapantry says

    February 10, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    Seriously impressive. Look to good to eat.

  17. Rachel McGrath says

    February 10, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    Haha I love these!!! X

  18. HedgeComber says

    February 11, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    Good grief, I wouldn’t have known where to start to make these! Really impressed Sarah.
    Janie x

    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      February 11, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      Thanks Janie! It takes a little bit of planning, I do a drawing in pencil first and write a list of which colours/types of icing I need. After making 40 types of icings for one of my book photo shoots these were a doddle!!

      • HedgeComber says

        February 11, 2014 at 8:53 pm

        Holy crap, really?! That’s love AND dedication! 🙂

        • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

          February 12, 2014 at 1:55 pm

          Heh, insanity more like!!!

          • HedgeComber says

            February 12, 2014 at 3:26 pm

            🙂

  19. Janice says

    February 11, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    Great job on the characters, very accurate

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