Friday, February 19, 2010

I Freakin LOVE Fondant!!

After a couple week break I am back in action with the cake decorating classes. I started Course 3 last Thursday (yes, I skipped Course 2...long story short, they don't offer them in order but you can take whichever class you want after finishing Course 1). The first class was a lot of talky talky with a little bit of piping work but nothing too exciting to talk about. Last night though, we started fondant and let me tell you, I am in LOVE! I instantly took to it and had a ton of fun messing around although it is a bitch on the wrists.

We started the class making fondant roses which came out so much better than the buttercream roses I attempted a few weeks ago. I love the fact that I can play an active role in molding and shaping these roses to make them look exactly how I want them to. I'll break down the process for ya: First you have to knead your fondant until it's nice and malleable, then you can work in the coloring...I chose purple. Then you roll it out until it's super smooth and about 1/16th of an inch thick. Next you use the handy little rose cutter and cut out three shapes like this one:


Once your shapes are cut out you take a weird tool that looks like a plastic pencil with a ball on top and you thin out the edges of the petals and make them kinda wavey.


After you do that to all three of your cutouts you place them one by one onto the rose center shown here:


You can use vanilla extract, water or vodka to brush onto each petal and then you gently curl them up and around the center until they stick where you want them to.


Once all your layers are on and sticking well, you can pinch and pull at the petal to get the look you want, this was my finished creation:


After working on a few roses, it was time to cover my cake with fondant. Again you have to do a lot of kneading and rolling, making sure you have it big enough to cover your entire cake. Then you roll it onto the cake and start smoothing, smoothing, smoothing until you can't smooth no more! I was pretty damn proud of how my first attempt came out!


Once my cake was covered, I colored more fondant, this time going with a gorgeous blue color that I decided to leave a little bit marbleized cuz I thought it looked cool. I cut out strips for the ribbon and bow and a bunch of stars to applique on my cake and voila!! I love, love, love how it turned out. I was even proud enough to take to work with me today to show my coworkers :)






I can't wait to do more with fondant, I see very fun projects in my future!

10 comments:

angrylittledeadgirl said...

Well, now I know what fondant is, and I must say, your cake is impressive!! And the little fondant rose is just perfect!

Kudos to you for going after something you enjoy :D

The Biting Gnome said...

great job ky!

RockerByeBaby said...

Super Cute! Way to go!! i am NO GOOD with fondant... you did a great job!

EyeScream Industries said...

Oh. My. God. I didn't think it was even possible to love you more.... ;) That cake is AWESOME!!!! And that rose is perfect!!

Sinburned said...

You did a fantastic job, girl! It's hard to believe that it's your first time working with fondant!

lollywood said...

those rose looks great! and great job covering your cake! fondant looks like fun!

Concertina said...

That cake is AMAZING!!! When you go work for Ace of Cakes...you tell Duff I have the hots for him ok??

BlackKittenAccessories said...

I haven't worked with fondant yet, but I've wanted to. I think you did an awesome job! I'm looking forward to more blog posts. :)

Unknown said...

Kylie...that rose turned out beautifully! I just used fondant for the first time in January to decorate sugar cookies with and it was so fun and now after seeing how beautiful your cake turned out, it makes me want to try using it on a cake! You're totally making me want to decorate cakes again! lol Truly...you did an awesome job! };)

smarmy said...

Holy crap, that's a pretty kickass cake, Faboo! How does the fondant taste? I've always been curious about that.