Wow, that’s tough! Her feathers are very fuzzy, almost like a feather boa. My initial thoughts are maybe cotton candy (can you get white cotton candy?). I am not sure of your scale, but it sounds like you need small feathers. I would find an appropriately sized leaf cutter and use that for the feathers – it should work really well with modeling chocolate. You can either use a feather veiner or just scribe some feather lines.
Oh and one other thing just came to mind – recently a friend of mine did a peacock cake and printed the peacok feathers on a sheet of wafer paper. When she cut them, she used a wet knife and dissolved the wafer paper just the slightest bit – they looked super real and “feathery”. Hope some of this helps!
Jenniffer White, Cup a Dee Cakes - http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com
