I am really ecstatic about this cake because this is actually my very first fondant cake, which I made for a friend's birthday. And to top it off, this is my first blog entry here in blogspot.
I’ve always been fascinated with the art of fondant making and I definitely have a high regard for people who are blessed with ingenuity to explore such skill.
I’ve always been fascinated with the art of fondant making and I definitely have a high regard for people who are blessed with ingenuity to explore such skill.
And this almost certainly, was what inspired me to give it a try. So the first thing I did is search for instructional videos of "fondant-how to" on YouTube, attentively acquiring the method itself and techniques. Next, I tried to look around the web for designs which will essentially serve as patterns/guides for my future projects.
The next day, I found myself making it with so much enthusiasm that it will turn out not perfect, but at least fair enough.
And so that was it... The cake was Very Moist Chocolate with Butter Cream Frosting and covered with Marshmallow Fondant Icing. I actually got the idea of the cake’s design from cakecentral.com but I failed to replicate every single detail. For some reason the food coloring I used was not very efficient. I had to add more drops to achieve the intensity of the color that I was expecting to have. Also, I made a mess with the bow of the ribbon. I shouldn’t have done it in the first place, for someone who is a novice in this field, making a bow is not really a very good idea. I used readymade writing icing for the inscription and I guess that was the only thing I didn’t mess around . The hearts design are meant to be cut out from the fondant icing sheet using something like a cookie cutter which I don’t actually have at the moment so I just used a heart-shaped guide from a scrapbook magazine (hmm thanks to my resourceful ideas).
Over all it was a totally exciting, new learning experience. It was really enjoyable playing around with the fondant icing. I guess the key to making good outcome here is passion, knowing that this is what I wanted to do. It may not be the best but certainly it made me feel overjoyed.
