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After watching numerous episodes of Cake Boss. After deluding myself enough that making fondant cakes is easy. After two and a half days. I am finally done with my fondant mini cakes. Each cake is about 5 inches tall and 4 inches wide, with three layers of butter cake filled with chocolate buttercream.
The one in front with the carnation flowers was made by a friend.
Sure, I'd take on a good challenge any time but I wasn't expecting much of it until I started to crumb coat each little nightmare of a tier. Icing a layer of cake on a turntable was useless since it was too light; the cake kept on moving every time the spatula touched the cake so I painstakingly held each layer in my left hand while my right coated it. As the layer got smaller - the smallest layer is about 2 inches in diameter - it got harder. Much harder. Each mini cake took me....um...only about a day to finish. Gaaaah!
Oh and the gumpaste carnations...well, my friend made them so that's another (horror) story to tell. I suppose I should stop nagging - they turned out nice anyway.
Which cake do you like best?
After watching numerous episodes of Cake Boss. After deluding myself enough that making fondant cakes is easy. After two and a half days. I am finally done with my fondant mini cakes. Each cake is about 5 inches tall and 4 inches wide, with three layers of butter cake filled with chocolate buttercream.
Sure, I'd take on a good challenge any time but I wasn't expecting much of it until I started to crumb coat each little nightmare of a tier. Icing a layer of cake on a turntable was useless since it was too light; the cake kept on moving every time the spatula touched the cake so I painstakingly held each layer in my left hand while my right coated it. As the layer got smaller - the smallest layer is about 2 inches in diameter - it got harder. Much harder. Each mini cake took me....um...only about a day to finish. Gaaaah!
Oh and the gumpaste carnations...well, my friend made them so that's another (horror) story to tell. I suppose I should stop nagging - they turned out nice anyway.
Which cake do you like best?
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