Of course the most important part of a shop called "JellyBean's Ice Cream and Delights" is the ice cream and delights, and that is what this post will be all about.
The ice cream tubs were one of the first things I thought about how to make for this shop. I needed to figure out how I could do the ice cream before making the ice cream shop a definite part of the overall "Whimsy Street" project. Fortunately, this plan for making them did actually work out in practice as well as in theory (because that definitely does not always happen haha). I did end up changing up my method slightly though by the time I got around to actually working on this shop. I knew I would be using clay for the ice cream, and I was hoping to figure out how to put it in pieces of paper straws as the cartons/tubs, but of course I couldn't really safely put paper straws in the oven (especially since I have a gas oven which involves actual flame...).
I ended up figuring out that one of the holes in the cake mold I have (from Stewart Dollhouse Creations), was the exact size for the opening of the straw, so I was able to form and bake the clay in that. Before baking though I used a ball stylus to "scoop" some of the clay out in each one to make it look like some ice cream had been scooped out, and yay! it worked out perfectly!
The flavors are: Vanilla, Chocolate, Raspberry, Strawberry, Peach, Blackberry, Key Lime, Lemonade, Funfetti Cake Batter, Salted Caramel, Butter Pecan, and Mint Chocolate Chip.
And of course you have to have ice cream cones in an ice cream shop. These are made from clay using an ice cream cone mold from Stewart Dollhouse Creations. To "stack" them, I just cut the top section off of some of the cones and glued it on top of the one beneath it, with one full cone on the bottom.
A shop called JellyBean's Ice Cream and Delights needs to have some "delights" other than just ice cream though. The first thing I decided on was cotton candy. This ended up being a really fun and easy project. For the cotton candy itself I dyed 2 cotton balls - one blue and one pink - using food coloring and water. I then just pulled off tiny pieces and rolled them into cotton candy shape once they cotton balls were completely dry (which I sped up by putting them in front of a fan and they really dried pretty quickly, I was surprised, I expected them to take much longer than they did).
The "paper" cones holding them are the tips of toothpicks, painted with spiral stripes.
For the plastic covering the cotton candy I poked a hole in plastic/cling wrap (like you would use for food storage) and put the cone through the hole and gathered it above the cotton candy and tied it off with some thread. (In real life it might be a little strange to package it with the cone poking through the plastic like that, but when I tried to just put the plastic wrap over the cone and the cotton candy all together it really obscured being able to see the details of the pieces, so I decided to do it this way.)
*also on kind of a side note, this method of making cotton candy would work for any scale, just adjust the amount of cotton ball you pull apart for each one (or use the whole cotton ball for larger scales) and make the cone part out of actual paper or a cone shaped bead of whatever you can think of based on the scale.
It took me a while to come up with another "delight", but finally I decided on these candies.
In my mind they are taffy, but if so they are pretty big pieces, but... that was as small as I could get them (at least without losing my mind in the process lol). To make them I wrapped tiny cylindrical beads with tissue paper.
The shop will also serve milkshakes and floats, but I consider that part the the "ice cream" part of the shop's name, but I do have one other thing that falls under the "delights" category..... Italian Sodas. To make the syrups for the sodas I used craft paint mixed with mod podge to paint 3D printed wine bottles (also from Stewart Dollhouse Creations).
But, you need more than some tubs of ice cream and cotton candy and taffy to have a functioning ice cream shop, so my next post will be about all the furniture, fixtures, and functional accessories that really bring the shop to life!
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