Fondant Cakes

Oh Goodness where has the time gone? It has been over a month since I updated and so much has happened since then.

First and foremost, I have been accepted to Culinary School, and I graduated from Business School so I can finally focus on the sweeter and more important things in life.

Secondly, a few very important birthdays went by. My dear brother Snorlax had a birthday and cutie Sami had a birthday. So if nothing else this is a picture post of the cakes I made for their birthdays.

First up, Snorlax cake for my dear brother Snorlax. This was my first time baking in a bowl and I had to keep putting it back in the oven because the middle just would not bake through! I did end up with a nice round tummy for the snorlax though and was pretty happy with the results.

Then for cutie Sami I came up with the idea of trying my hand at a purse cake. More notably, a TokiDoki purse cake. Unfortunately, when I put the cake to let it chill out in the fridge some how the fridge door was left ajar and cake caved in a bit on itself resulting in lumps. So it is a bit of a lumpy purse, she loved it so I decided to chalk this up to experience and not get too upset about it. Especially, considering I made it faster than any other cake and it was also bigger than any other cake I had done before!

There's nothing like cutting out 200 little fondant stars at 1 am :)

Back of the purse:

Front:

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.