Fondant is thick, creamy sugar mass used for decorating cakes, instead of icing it used to cover cakes. Fake fondant cake can be displayed at the wedding reception or used for different purposes, such as bakery display, cake decorating class displays. With Fondant cakes look amazing. Making a Fake Cake with Fondant yourself is easy and become a cost-cutting method for wedding expense accounts.

Nowadays, weddings get more expensive many peoples are trying to cut costs all over the place, but one place they don’t think about cutting costs is the cake. Method of Making a Fake Cake with Fondant is given below.

Useful Things for Making a Fake Fondant Cake

• Sharp knife
• Rolling pin
• Styrofoam cake form
• Fondant
• Food coloring
• Cornstarch
• Decorations

You have decided on the different feature of your three-layer fake fondant cake. First think about the colors and shapes which will be added to decorate the cake. If you are new at cake decorating, purchase small cookie cutters to make fondant shapes, it will be give your cake a professional look. You have also the fondant, food coloring, cake base and three-layer Styrofoam cake forms all these items can be purchased at a baking supply store, craft store or online.

Then you should set up the fondant decorations first, take a food coloring work on in with your hands, for each color needed, with small amounts of fondant. You need to do the same process for the mass of the fondant if the cake is to be a different color than white or purchase it pre-colored. Pre-make any of the colored decorations that will go onto the cake.

You should then put that in a covered container so they will not dry out before adhering them to the fondant-covered cake form. You need to work in the cake fondant with your hands until it has warmed and is pliable. Dust them with cornstarch, if it sticks to your fingers.

Rolled fondant includes gelatin and food-grade glycerin, which keep the sugar pliable and creates a dough-like consistency. It can also be made using powdered sugar and melted marshmallows. Rolled fondant is rolled out like a pie crust and used to cover the cake that gives the cakes a smooth appearance.

Roll out the cake fondant make sure the fondant is sticky. Sprinkle your working surface with cornstarch and then rub some on the rolling pin and your fingers. You should rolling fondant from the center outwards, forming a circle that must ¼-inch thick. The circle should be large enough to cover the complete cake form, as well as several inches.

Roll the fondant elastically onto the rolling pin and pick it up off on the work area. It may destroy, if you turn it over by hand, don’t do like that. Roll the fondant over the top of the cake form so that the center of the fondant is at the center top of the cake form. This should be done quickly, if you take too long time, the fondant will dry out.

Use the palms of your hands for smoothing the fondant over the cake form. Ensure you have dusted your hands with corn starch, again, to keep them from sticking to the fondant.
Smooth the fondant from all side like center top, down. Keep working fast as possible as until the entire cake form is smooth without air bubbles under it. To cut any excess fondant from around the bottom of the cake form, you should use a sharp knife.

Finally your fake fondant cake will ready you have decorate them as your own style. If you a crafty or you have an experience with cake decorating, ribbon, silk or fresh flowers or fondant cut-outs can be applied and used on it that gives a nice look.

Tips & Warnings

If you are making an odd-shaped fake fondant cake, you can cut your fake cake pieces from sheets of Styrofoam, which can be purchased at a craft store. If you are making a fake fondant wedding cake and want the bride and groom to display the tradition of feeding each other a piece of cake, cut a wedge out of the Styrofoam and replace it with actual wedding cake. Mark on the fondant with a sharp knife so they will know where to cut. Dried fondant can be kept indefinitely without spoiling. Colored fondant can be purchased in 2-pound tubs.

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