Ode to Fondant

I have always wanted to try fondant, but was completely intimadated. I am slightly addicted to cake decorating shows and I am completely amazed at the power of fondant. Me, being me decided to attempt using fondant on Molly's 3 tier birthday party cake, nothing like starting big.

First, I discovered a great blog with awesome cakes: http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/ This is where I found the inspiration for this orange/fushia/lime creation. Then a quick trip to Michael's Crafts, I bought a box of white fondant, and a few other tools including small cookie cutters, paste food coloring, pink wire and a $8 piece of plastic called a fondant smoother. I know what I want this cake to look like, I hope I can make it happen.

I baked the actual cake : 12 inch round, 9 inch round and 6 inch round, Molly wanted chocolate pound with oreo filling and buttercream icing. After I dirty iced, (I feel like Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes) I let the cakes sit for a few hours.

Now its fondant time, I divided the fondant into 3 parts and colored them pink, orange and lime, it was easy just like play-dough for grown ups. The hardest part was rolling the fondant thin and covering each layer smoothly, and it wasn't really that hard. Now, I am not saying that this cake didn't have his share of wrinkles and holes but everything was fixable. After stacking the tiers and inserting dowels, the fun begins. We cut different color stripes, pok-a-dots, stars and diamonds and literally "glued" them to the cake. How do you glue shapes to a cake? VODKA, it actually works.

After a few hours, the cake looked really good, I was actually surprised how well it turnded out. The kitchen was another story, all I could see was food color stained counters, powdered sugar every where and of course an open bottle of vodka. Oh well, alls well that ends well.