Here is my first ever attempt at doing a cake with fondant. For those of you who are cake illiterate, fondant is an icing made out of gelatin, confectioners sugar and water. A very smooth and malleable icing that dries hard. Not for the amateur, this icing isn’t put on with a knife, but rather rolled to a uniform thickness and then laid over the cake. It can also be used for detail work such as making intricate flowers. A fondant-covered cake can be spotted by its rounded edges. (Dictionary definition – not mine) Still have to practice some more but not bad for the first time.
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Dad says "excellent"! What does it taste like?? You realize you won’t want to cut into it!! Well done, Stephanie!
Talk about a learning cake. I tried coloring the fondant as I went but learned quick that I should color everything then start to build. Takes a bit of getting used to for working with. I tried that lady’s recipe for buttercream icing…..not bad. I could do much better. She used a whole brick of butter. Between that and the earlier "sponge cake" I attempted to make (but threw out)I figure if anyone tried her cakes would die from a heart attack from all the butter and wouldn’t be able to hold onto the cake cause it would slip out from there fingers with all the grease. Yuck.
So, I used the cake box cakes like I always do. Did use her icing but I definitely will not use it again (will use Buttons recipe or something else), it wasn’t bad, just liked my icings better or even store bought ones.
I made one fatal mistake with the fondant. After I had made the cake I found a little note in the Wilton instructions saying to add vanilla to the fondant for flavoring. Didn’t do that. So the fondant was a little tasteless. Definitely will change that next time.
Looks good, Stephanie! The rabbits are goofy looking, in a good way!
Miranda wants one. 😀
The rabbits look exactly like the book she is copying….. so there! Anonymous! We’re not sure how to spell anonymous — is there a book for that!~!