Here are some other fondant cakes I’ve been making since I started a couple years ago. I make EVERYTHING from scratch–the cake, filling, buttercream and fondant. I know it would be easier to just buy the ready-made fondant (yuck) and a box of Duncan Hines, but honestly the process is where I get my jollies. I enjoy doing things the hard way, plus there is nothing like homemade. (Real homemade, not that Sandra-Lee-Food-Network-Inspired-BS.)
I may be going off on a tangent, but when people say “that cake is so cute” and then they bite into it and it tastes like a rubber encrusted ashtray…then what? Where is the pride in the craft? So, if you want to use all the pre-made stuff (and make Duff rich), then more power to you, but you’ll be missing the part where they say, “Oh my god, it’s so tasty.” So just take a moment and think about it and then spend 8 hours laboring over a cake that will be eaten in 20 minutes. I swear, it doesn’t sound like it’s worth it–but it is.
My first fondant (go easy people)
my first fondant cake
This was done for my friend’s 30th birthday and it was my first attempt at fondant. I was just happy I didn’t drop the thing on the way in the bar.
Monkey Fondant Cake
Monkey Fondant Birthday Cake for my Nephew
Next up was a birthday cake for my nephew who loves monkeys and who we lovingly refer to as ‘monkey.’ I made this tutorial for the monkey cake.
60th Birthday Cake Complete with Dentures
60th Birthday Cake w/ Dentures
Me - NOT dropping the cake
I may have had a little too much fun with this cake. My mom was turning 60 and so I racked my brain to think of appropriate things to put on said cake. I decided I shouldn’t put anything appropriate on it. So the dentures are made of rice crispies covered in fondant. There are pill bottles and ’60’ on the top tier. The blue balls are an ‘artist’s interpretation’ of viagra pills. The bottom tier has AARP cards and wheelchair signs. I was running out of time on this one, so the decorations aren’t up to par, but you get the idea. The other pic is me NOT dropping the cake. Anyone who knows me, knows you need a picture of this because at any point I may fall on my face.
Yankees Baseball Fondant Cake w/ Yankees Logo & Baseball Cupcakes
I hate the yankees, but this cake is ok
#1 – I hate the Yankees. Really–I’m a Cubs fan. But I had to make the cake for a die-hard Yankees fan, so I left the city of Chicago to purchase a Yankees hat to base the design off of. And, yes, the Yankees baseball hat is now in the trash.
I layered 2 10-inch cakes & cut out the cake to form the main hat shape, then used a piece of lightweight cardboard for the bill. I also made about 4 dozen cupcakes. The cupcakes were carrot cupcakes w/ cream cheese frosting w/ hand cut Yankees logos from fondant and white cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing and coconut piped w/ laces for baseballs. This picture is pretty bad, but I made sure to put the air holes, little nub at the top (don’t know the actual term) and stitching.
Toy Story Bed Fondant Cake
Finished Toy Story Bed Cake
Not Finished - Toy Story Bed Cake
Just the bed
My nephew now loves Toy Story and he was turning 3, so that worked well with the Toy Story 3 movie that had come out. Anyway, after much research I decided to make a bed. I made 2 9×13 cake pans and 2 9-inch (1 white of each and 1 chocolate of each.) I made the floor boards and headboard out of chocolate fondant. The headboard is corrugated cardboard cut out with an exactoknife and covered in fondant. The floorboards were one sheet and then made indentations to make it look like wood. I also painted a little bronze shimmer on them to give depth.
I layered the cakes and coated them in buttercream. And created a pillow out of extra cake and fondant. I made the blue comforter and then took a sewing tool that you use to make impressions through tracing paper. It’s a wheel on a long handle (I have no clue what it’s called) to make the stitching on the quilt. Then I draped it over, and made sure to make some folds like a real comforter. I cut out the letters, then placed them on a dark blue fondant and cut out the background. Same with his name and #3. Finally I made a little carpet & placed the toys all around. I’m not crazy enough to make the toys on this one. At least not yet.
There are many more to come…I just have to make them.
Anyone have a birthday? Just kidding. You don’t have enough money, well maybe you do.
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