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| Flower Theme Fondant Cake |
Recent Mother's Day order, requested by my friend who wanted a cake with flowers, butterflies and hearts. So I planned to do something not too complicated yet come with a happy looking garden feel.
I started with making fondant roses. I used a stripe of fondant and rolled over the edge to create a natural look. I discovered the easiest way is to use a toothpick and not with a the ball tools! Next, just roll over with the thicker end and press firmly. (If fondant is too dry, water is required to stick the ends together). Next, lightly pull the petals apart and arrange according to the look you like. Lastly, for drying, I always like to use aluminium foil as a holder/stand to dry the small fondants.
I am glad that the flower cutters which I ordered from Qoo10 arrived just in time for me to make these lovely flowers. These cutters really helped me to shape the flowers with much ease. Similarly I dried these cut flowers by placing them on cone-shaped aluminium foils to create a 3D looking flower.
The alphabet press set is handy when you need to create letters in small area. Its about 0.7cm height.
I wanted to create a simple but sweet looking flower cake, so I though of having a white wooden fence. With the ribbon cutter, I shaped the fence top, followed by adding the wooden feel texture using the shell tools. The effect was great!
I started with crumb coated chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting. Final frosting of chocolate ganache was set firmly in room temperature before I placed the fence stripes side by side.
For the top, I left it with dome shape chocolate ganache as anyway it will be covered with flower later on. Lastly the ribbon was added to the bottom. It looked so sweet.
