how to cover a cake with fondant

I know… another cake? Yes, this one was for the seniors, for a Mother’s day tea.

I didn’t get all fancy-pants with it… why? Well- a few reasons: I couldn’t get a hold of the woman in charge of the event. So I had no clue exactly what they wanted.  Ugh. Frustrating. Because I am  one of those planning people. I like to know what I need to do.

I finally was told: Just do something nice and simple and pretty.

Hmmm.

Now- I took some pics to show you the best way to go about covering a cake with fondant.  Yay. 🙂This is my usual cake. The same recipe as always. I think I have made more cakes this year than in my entire life.

Which, in turn has made me want macarons. Which I made yesterday. Which, did no come out. Which, made me mad.

I’m over it, now. It’s Friday- and I am going to get all my chores done this a.m. and then bake something up that involves blackberries and vanilla.  Yum.

I’ll probably take some pics of the un-macarons, too.

Now: fondant- to cover a cake with it, two things to remember:

The cake needs to have a thin coat of frosting. And, you must roll out the fondant in a circle twice the diameter of the cake. This was a 9″ cake. So… I rolled it out 18″.

By the way, rolling fondant is a great workout for your arms. I’m buff thanks to fondant. 😉

Then, I eat it…and undo it all. Oh crap.

Now: I didn’t get a pic of the actual application- but, what you do is flip the fondant back onto the rolling pin, and then center it over the cake, and unroll it from the pin. Does that make sense? I need an assistant or an extra arm sometimes.

I used a pizza cutter to trim off the excess fondant. I have leftover purple fondant. Lots, actually. I don’t know why I had to roll it out that big. That’s just what the “cake police”  recommend.

It’s better to have to much than too little I suppose.

Anyway, I guess I will tell y’all what I have been busy working on, aside from disastrous macarons.

I am creating a new site/add on to this one. Because, let’s face it: this one is consistently food related. But, there is more to life than food. And, sometimes I don’t have food for you guys. Sometimes I have crafts.. sometimes I organize my junk drawer and take pictures of it.Other times it’s cheap ways to entertain a kid. Then, there’s times I plant things and sometimes I just take pictures of  people dressed in black leather in the summer. You know, domestic life stuff.

So~ I am in the process of working on an entirely new portion.

Now: aside from food- what types of “stuff” do you want to see more or less of?

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