Sooooo after a week of buying my materials I was finally able to make my own fondant!
This was the first time I also put fondant on a cake and I wished I looked up more about putting fondant on the cake before I put it on the cake (How many times can you say cake in one sentence?) The day after I fondant-ed my cake I found all these great videos about how to cover a cake with fondant. I didn't do too many things wrong, but I wish I did know to chill my frosted cake before I put the fondant on.
You can't really see in the pictures, that the polka dots have cracks in it. It wasn't a major issue and I think I know how to fix it next time. I also redecorated the cake a bunch of times. I started out with a beaded border, but I thought it looked to childish, so I took it off. I then proceeded to do checked, but I didn't like the lilac checkers. I then did just big polka dots, and then finally ended up with this.
I'm not sure if all fondant recipe use almond extract, but the one I made did. It made the fondant delicious, I might even dare to say that I liked it better then my regular icing. I think, just to say it plainly, I fell in love with fondant. I loved everything about it, the feel, the texture, the taste. I even loved when I cut it open, I loved the smoothness of the slicing. I know that sounds odd, but try cutting a fondant cake and it just feels silky.
Ok onto the recipe I used...
I used a recipe from the cook duke http://thecookduke.com/fondant-recipe/
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the recipe on my blog or just the link? So I'm just posting the link for now. The cake recipe I used was just our good old standard cake which recipe I'll post in a few days. I hope this post wasn't to boring considering this was my first post!
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