Fondant Fun

One of my friends is having a baby soon so we of course had to throw her a shower. My other friend Hillary did all of the work and put together and awesome shower for her. She put me in charge of the cake and gave me a picture of the cake she was hoping for. It was beautiful and I was a little scared, but excited to try something new.

The cake was made of fondant which I have never used before. I am not a fan of regular fondant so I decided to try marshmallow fondant. I still wanted to use mainly butter cream just because it is the best, but I used the fondant for the details.

It was quite the adventure making it. The hubs was a great help and we had fun together making it. It was super sticky & messy. Most definitely a learning experience for sure. But I'm happy that I only had to make one batch.

It was a lot trickier to work with then I was expecting. It is just so soft and stretchy. And Diamonds were a hard shape to start with. Getting them all the same side was super hard and as soon as I would pick it up it stretched like crazy.

I'm certainly not in love with this cake. I really only see all the imperfections. Not too shabby for the first attempt and first time every using fondant, but I was kind of embarrassed to take it to the shower. But I did. Everyone said they loved it. I still think they were just being nice. But at least it tasted good. It was a checkerboard cake with chocolate cake and white cake that was dyed blue and the inside did come out good. A stranger asked me for my card so I guess it at least impressed one person. :)

I had tons of extra fondant and we celebrated my Mother-in-laws birthday the following day so I used some of it to cover a cake for her. I still have about half left. I was going to let the kids play with it as play dough but haven't prepared myself enough for that sugar rush yet. I like the flavor of it better on the chocolate cake a little better. The white with the butter cream and the marshmallow was just a little too sweet but the chocolate balanced it out a little more for me. But I really did love the fondant, it tasted kind of amazing. I kept popping pieces when I was making the cakes. I think I might start using it more often. Not to mention, if you can really cover a cake in fondant it looks awesome! So many things you can do with it so it would be fun to get better at that.

View of the checkerboard. Not perfect, but not too shabby.

Anyway, after not making a cake in a few months to making 3 cakes in 1 week I think I'll take a little cake break. But I will totally use this fondant again!