Twilight Cake

So a friend needed to make a Twilight cake. I don't like Twilight but I thought that making a cake for something that I don't like or particularly know would be a nice challenge. It was also the first time I did food coloring paint on fondant which was fun and smell delicious.





First we covered it in Fondant and I realized that when I open a bakery I need to hire Adam Wiebe because he uses his strong arms to roll out the fondant quickly for me--especially when my wrists are sore from crocheting (what? I'm an old woman.)



Here's the cool part. I had never painted on fondant or made my own edible paints before. I used Almond extract instead of lemon and the scent was divine, but as with Vanilla extract the scent is deceiving, at least when it was by itself when it was on the cake it was fine.



Since it was a round cake we decided that painting a straight chess board would look a little weird so we chose to fade the brush strokes.



The finish thing, I love the little apple. Originally it was just red fondant but a black spoltch of food coloring on it so I decided to take red food coloring to it and really ended up loving the result.



Tabitha showing off her...um twilight shirt with our twilight cake.