Cake We Can Believe In
4/11/08 23:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsWhile Barack Obama was accepting the will of the electorate, I was at cake decorating class, making fondant.
Fondant is not difficult to make, just tricksy and time-consuming. And sticky. My instructor really wanted me to make it a nice pastel, but you know me. I made this nice moss color, rolled out the fondant, and draped it over...a styrofoam cake form. That's what my teacher likes to do, for a first attempt. Once I'd covered my cake form and "polished" the fondant (really: you gently burnish the surface of the fondant with the heel of your hand until it's smooth and slightly shiny) I traded some left over green fondant for some orange fondant, and started getting tricky with flowers and trim on the bottom.
For a first attempt, not so bad. It would be better with real cake inside.
Fondant is not difficult to make, just tricksy and time-consuming. And sticky. My instructor really wanted me to make it a nice pastel, but you know me. I made this nice moss color, rolled out the fondant, and draped it over...a styrofoam cake form. That's what my teacher likes to do, for a first attempt. Once I'd covered my cake form and "polished" the fondant (really: you gently burnish the surface of the fondant with the heel of your hand until it's smooth and slightly shiny) I traded some left over green fondant for some orange fondant, and started getting tricky with flowers and trim on the bottom.
For a first attempt, not so bad. It would be better with real cake inside.