Fondant


ZEBRA PATTERNS
 

I try to make my life less complicated when decorating cakes.  Although I love using brush for painting, making a little mistake can take a while to repair.  When trying to paint zebra patterns over white fondant it can get even measier. So here is a quick and easy wait to get perfect zebra patterns on fondant.

All you need is:
  • White fondant
  • Dark fondant (chocolate in this picture)

For instructions please click HERE

 
                                                                                                                                 


You will need:
  • Brown Fondant
  • Gel colors (brown or black for the nose and eyes)
  • Spaghetti (to support the head of the bear, and if you like, the limbs as well)
  • Toothpick
  • One piping tip (any size)

To see full post please click HERE.

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I enjoyed making this pink fondant teddy bear.  It was fun and very easy. The step-by-step instructions below may seem too long, but it just me posting so many pictures… so don’t be discouraged.  Before I begin, I would like to first say: don’t worry how your teddy bear is looking like as you make it, it all comes together at the end.
You will need:
1. Pink fondant for the teddy bear
2. A small amount of dark fondant for the scarf
3. A small amount of additional colored fondant for the silk rose (in this case orange) 
4. Black gel food color for eyes and nose
5. Any icing tip for mouth markings
6. A fondant baller
7. Piping gel (or food flavoring or vodka) to ‘glue’ fondant pieces
8. Decorating brush / Pearl dust brush (optional)
9. Wilton cutter / embosser
10. Like always, toothpicks (esential tools for cake decorating)
11. Read, “Working with Fondant” that I have previously posted.
 

I created this fun and colorful Tinkerbell cake for a baby shower in late November. The mom-to-be was a chocoholic, so I themed the flavor of this cake as “Death by Chocolate”.

The cake was … CLICK HERE for full post.

1. Roll fondant 1/16 in thick in desired color.

2. Cut 2 bow loops, 1 bow center and 2 streamers using a Fondant Cutter.

3. Cleck HERE for full post

I made this cake for a babyshower last Friday.  I really wanted to create something funky yet adorable, so I came up with a slice of cake with adorable fondant bear toppers.  The cake came out bigger than I thought it would as I ended up stacking 4 layers of cake.  It was then frosted and covered with fondant. Green ruffle is buttercream.

I made the bears ahead of time out of fondant and painted the paws, the nose and the eyes with black food coloring.  The top bear is mama bear holding the newborn cub in her arms.  The bottom bear is papa bear.  The mother decided to keep the bear toppers so she can use them as cake toppers for the baby’s first year cake.

This cake was actually 4 layer of chocolate cake with two fillings of chocolate mousse and one layer of “dulce de leche” (similar to caramel).  It was so yummy!!

I just made this cake this weekend.  It really was so much fun and very entertaining to design the dress and dressing her up in it. 

The barbie cake is chocolate chocolate chunk oced with fudge.  The rose cake is strawberry cake with strawberry filling and iced with white fluffy vanilla buttercream.

The dress is all fondant. The white decorations on the white portion of the dress are white buttercream piped with a small round tip.  The rose cake is covered with fondant, the ruffle is white buttercream and the roses are fondant.  Check how to make fondant roses here.

Here is a link to the mold I used for this Stand up Doll Pan

I made this cake at the end of 2007 for a 1 year old birthday girl. I forgot my camera at home, so I only have my cell phone’s pictures.

Cakes:

The bottom cake was super moist chocolate chocolate chip cake filled with raspberry and iced with vanilla buttercream. Green grass is green vanilla buttercream, flowers and leaves are fondant. Lasso is chocolate fondant (I was too tired at this time I just left it that color, I suggest making it a lighter color).

The hat is cake too!!! It is sour cream vanilla chocolate marbled cake filled and iced with fudge. Covered in pink fondant. Ribbon is white fondant.

The cupcakes are white chocolate cake with white chocolate chips, iced with colored buttercream. Flowers and small hats are made of fondant.


How to make a cowboy HAT – Step-by-Step Instructions

Someone asked me to make a cake for their birthday.  I wanted to create something colorful and fun, so I came across Su-Yin’s cake and decided to replicate it.  This cake was fun to make.  I started by making Mario which I knew would be more difficult than the rest.  Once he was made, the rest came about easy.

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Double click on the pictures below to enlarge the pictures and see all sides of the cake.

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The cake is a marble chocolate-vanilla cake filled and covered with chocolate fudge, then covered with marshmallow fondant (MMF).  Mario’s body is filled with bread and covered with marshmallow fondant.  All decorations are MMF.

Follow instructions on the MMF recipe.  You will add the following ingredients to the recipe:

  • 1 oz melted semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate**
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder (it can be either Dutch-process or natural – the later will give a more pronounced flavor)

Instructions

  1. Follow Instructions on MMF recipe from Step1 to 3, for melting the marshmallow.  Once these are melted, stir melted chocolate in a mixing bowl until well incorporated.  Set aside.
  2. Here is the change to the MMF recipe.  Instead of just adding the sugar, place the sugar in a small mixing bowl and sift the cocoa powder in a small mesh strainer over the sugar.  Mix the dry ingredients.
  3. Proceed to step four, sift sugar and cocoa mix over the melted marshmallow and continue the instructions, i.e., mix until well incorporated.
  4. Continue with the kneading (this is hot- wait until it cools a little or start kneading with a spoon until safe to the touch).
    1. *Variations to this recipe:

     ** You can also use white chocolate by substituting 1 oz of semi-sweet chocolate and 1 tbspoon of cocoa powder with 2 oz of white chocolate.

     

     

     

     

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