Using real foods for doll props

Those Tostidos "scoops" tortilla chips could be taco salad bowls for dolls!

 

Have to agree with the miniature Hershey bars. I got some for Christmas and put one in my 1/3 doll's hand and it seemed in good proportion to a somewhat wide and short regular chocolate bar. xD

If you have a miniature pepper plant, you can grow peppers directly in-scale if you wanted. xD

 

OMG that's BRILLIANT!!!

Then again...would an Easy Bake oven cake be 1/4 scale or 1/3 scale? Anyone know?

 

We've got super-tiny jars of jam-- I think it was a taste-test set from Knott's Berry Farm. But Cost Plus often has really little jars of jam or lemon curd, as well as other tiny personal-picnic-sized things, if you're looking for packaged foods of that nature.

Also, I saw candy where the box looked like Chinese take-away. I suppose you could rinse out the little tin and put instant noodles inside it for a photoshoot...

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Anneko

 

My mother found some tiny mandarins..



perfect sd size

 

I love making mini scale food.
I dont have any pictures though and I made them for entertainment before I even looked into BJDs.

I really reccomend looking at bento boxes for ideas because a lot of those can be scaled.

Quinoa can be used as rice if rice needs to be scaled.
I havent had it myself before but its about half the size of rice and comes in quite the color range.

No bake cakes and cookies might make scale easier too.
If you find a round cookie cutter you can seal the bottom with tin foil or seran wrap and then just follow the recipie's instructions and there you have cake to scale.

Scrambled eggs arent too bad to scale either.

Breads too, so long as they aren't from a batter.
And if you make bread, that can lead to scale sandwhiches and french toast.

For mini salads, microgreens might work pretty well.

for chicken, you can make very mini chicken cutlets, or even very mini chicken stirfry!
Stirfry would work well because ingredients need to be cut in the first place and there wouldn't be too noticible of a difference that way.


When I find some of the recipies I have used, Ill post them!

 

When I was a kid we used to use fun size chocolate bars as miniature 'frosted chocolate cakes' for our fashion dolls, stuck with bits of colored toothpick as candles. Herb leaves got used as tossed salad. Green grapes stood in as melons, if not very convincingly.
For my medieval fantasy Court of SD dolls I plan to use carefully made miniature sausage rolls, small potatoes, small green onions posing as leeks, and brussel sprouts make convincing lettuce heads.

 

There's always store bought candy. I just bought what I think was the last holiday gift box of Toblerone Tinys yesterday. I love Toblerone, so they would have gone to good use even if they didn't fit with my MiniFee. Although, I do think they might look a little better with an SD, but I don't I have an SD body, so there you go.

Here's a picture-


I just remembered another real life food that could be used. Round cake sprinkles could be used for hard candy or gumballs, depending on the size of the sprinkles, or your doll. Before you say they are too small, if you are in the US or can order online, Wilton has jumbo sprinkles that are seed bead sized.

 

I made sandwiches for my MSD once that were pretty in-scale, using regular bread, just by cutting the actual sandwiches up small. If you flatten the bread down a bit when you're pressing the sandwich together, it looks believably thin, if you're using thin-sliced bread to begin with....

Don't remember if anyone said this, but miniature swiss rolls that have been sliced into pieces just like you'd cut up a full-size roll work well too. (I learnt this years ago from an article on how to have a successful teddy bear's picnic, of all things!)

 

....And now I must get an easy bake oven. I know someone already said it, but that was my first thought too! And tiny cake decorating tools.. Oh this is going to be fun..

Wouldn't it be a great idea for a doll meet? Food inspired! Each person could bring an inscale food for each doll, and then the doll owners could have their own dolly pot luck!

 

Here's Vince with a brownie bite on a doll-sized plate (although, to him, it's much more than a bite...)

And here's a closeup of the plate and brownie bite next to each other. On that one I wanted to show off the plate, but kept the brownie in for scale.



I had baked them for a doll meet, and they just turned out to be the right size for his plate, so I couldn't resist taking some pictures. But they also turned out kind of sticky, so I didn't take any pictures of him holding one.

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Anneko

 

Here in the UK, the Co-op do mini Jaffa Cakes - back when I first got my Hound, Marius, he developed a taste for them:

 

I wanted some sandwhiches for a scene I was doing so I made them from real food. I actually took bread and sliced it along it's width/thickness. So I had two slices from one slice of bread. then put chesse and mayo on them. In the picture you'll notice the thickness of the 'sandwhiches' is about the thickness of 1 slice of bread. Then I just cut them to the right size for my dolls. The red things are little hard candies I had.


Now I want to make doll sized cake... I have cake mix at home...