This is my very first attempt at fondant. I made the marshmallow fondant, which turned out really good. This was SO's b-day cake last month... a giant cupcake cake.lol
Thank you so much! :) I'm excited.. my DD's b-day party is on the 26th, and the theme is Hello Kitty.. she's turning 5... I'm planning on making a 2 tiered cake with 1 tier being hot pink, and the other being lime green.. I'm trying to think of other neat decorating ideas, but I'm hitting a road block. I don't really have a lot of tools and such for making decorative things, so I'm going to be purely improvising.lol Once I figure out what exactly I plan on doing, that is. :-/
Any tips or ideas would be awesome (and sooooooo greatly appreciated) :)
Don't worry about tools, you don't need a lot of tools. You just need something to roll the fondant out with, whether its a rolling pin or a smooth glass doesn't matter, I've used both. And you don't have to have shape cutters either, just something with a sharp tip and edge. Use a pizza cutter for large areas and and knife for smaller ones. Here are some from my facebook fan page that I've done that way.
This one, I found a horse head coloring page online, sized it down, printed it off and laid it over fondant and traced the lines with a toothpick to imprint them on the fondant. Then used a knife to cut the shape (carefully) and painted it with the icing colors mixed with clear vanilla using the indents from the traced lines as my guide. HORSE HEAD CAKE
On this one the peace signs were all cut by hand using a knife tip. The flowers I used a shaped cutter for only because I had it in a kit for one of the Wilton classes I had taken, other wise I would have used a knife and cut them out by hand too. PEACE SIGN CAKE
One this one, I did the pictures the same way I did the horse. The only difference was we had a story book that we used. I put wax paper over the pages in the book and used a toothpick to scratch (trace) lines into it (without breaking the paper) then put it on the fondant pieces and traced over it again to get an imprint of the lines onto the fondant, then used icing colors and clear vanilla to paint the pictures used the indented lines for a guide. A couple of the pics on this one were found online, but most were from the story book . PRINCESS AND THE FROG CAKE ( I say We on some of these because if they needed a lot of time and I didn't have time to do it all on my own then my sister pitched in and helped a lot. This cake in particular never would have been done on time if she hadn't helped.)
Hopefully that helps some and gives you a few ideas.
Quoting LTryon:
.............I don't really have a lot of tools and such for making decorative things, so I'm going to be purely improvising.lol Once I figure out what exactly I plan on doing, that is. :-/
Any tips or ideas would be awesome (and sooooooo greatly appreciated) :)
Here's another idea. I did a POKEMON CAKE and made the figures for it from royal icing that I made and thinned down by using extra water to get it to "pour". AKA Flow Icing. Again, I found pics online that we traced, we didn't use a printer for these, we put wax paper over the computer and used a sharpy to trace them off the screen but you got to be careful, sis got marker on the screen when she was working on that part and we like to never got it back off. Then flipped the paper so that the marker side touched the table and the icing wouldn't. Used black to pipe over the marker lines (a little thicker consistency than the colors). Then after it was completely dry, we went back in with colors that were a little thinner and filled in the spaces. I put sucker sticks on the back so that I could poke the figures down into the cake so that they would stand up. Its VERY VERY IMPORTANT if you use this method, that you do it in advance because it takes a day or two to dry. You want the outlines to be COMPLETELY dry before adding the color so that the black doesn't bleed into the colors and you want the colors to be COMPLETELY dry before you peel it off the paper or they WILL break. Learned that the hard way and had to do a couple of the pieces again. But the 2nd ones turned out better anyway. So if you use this method to make decorations, I would do them at least a week before baking just to be sure they are going to be ok.
oooh.. I never thought of the wax paper thing.. I'm going to have to try that... We finally decided on a theme.. she saw Hello Kitty and went nuts, so we're going to go with that.
Quoting MsEmsMom110:Here's another idea. I did a POKEMON CAKE and made the figures for it from royal icing that I made and thinned down by using extra water to get it to "pour". AKA Flow Icing. Again, I found pics online that we traced, we didn't use a printer for these, we put wax paper over the computer and used a sharpy to trace them off the screen but you got to be careful, sis got marker on the screen when she was working on that part and we like to never got it back off. Then flipped the paper so that the marker side touched the table and the icing wouldn't. Used black to pipe over the marker lines (a little thicker consistency than the colors). Then after it was completely dry, we went back in with colors that were a little thinner and filled in the spaces. I put sucker sticks on the back so that I could poke the figures down into the cake so that they would stand up. Its VERY VERY IMPORTANT if you use this method, that you do it in advance because it takes a day or two to dry. You want the outlines to be COMPLETELY dry before adding the color so that the black doesn't bleed into the colors and you want the colors to be COMPLETELY dry before you peel it off the paper or they WILL break. Learned that the hard way and had to do a couple of the pieces again. But the 2nd ones turned out better anyway. So if you use this method to make decorations, I would do them at least a week before baking just to be sure they are going to be ok.
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- LTryon
on May. 28, 2011 at 6:00 PM