So in order to celebrate my best gay friends birtday I made a cake for him with my real best friend, not saying that the gay best friend isnt real, hes actually right in fount of me being as obnxious as possible.
But all of this is not the point of my blog, I got to make FONDANT which I have always wanted to make, as I am a huge fan of watching professionals make amazing cakes and the fact that fondant can hold pretty much anything together. So I looked up a recipie for Marshmellow Fondant which by the way is a complete MESS to make, I wanted to take pictures of the process of making, however I had marshmellow on every utensil and surface within 5 feet of myself, so picking up the camera was not an option however I should have had the foresight to notice that taking an entire bag of marshmellows, melting them, and then adding 2 lbs of powdered sugar to the sloppy mess untill the consitency of play dough was going to make a hot sticky mess.
... you know that consitency you get when you burn the marshmellow at the end of the sick on the camp fire and pull off the crusty burnt outer shell... that is nothing compared to 16oz of completely melting marshmellow soup.
after kneeding for about an hour, I added food coloring to this mess turning my hands shirt and arms various colors that have yet to fully disappear. Then its into the fridge for the night whereas in the morning, you have a boulder of solid unmalleable dough which you now need to re-beat into a dough like substance for about another hour. Now comes application... start with you cake, frosted or the fondant will not stick as pictured below... I used funfetti because that is what said gay friend requested, but added extra sprinkles cause it wasnt QUITE gay enought.
frosted but no fondant
Then I rolled out what was supposed to be red fondant but ended up being pink because I got sick of trying to make it the right color, and covered the entire cake...as my mother stated... good thing he's colorblind. I then had green, purple, blue, and yellow fondant which I used to garnish this masterpiece in polka dots..
Isnt it Lovely! Now you understand why I dubbed it the Play Dough Cake... However I promise you it is all edible and VERY sweet, im talking, Sweeter than I can handle, but still pretty good, overall I was relatively happy with the outcome. I do plan to use a frosting underneath the fondant which is MUCH less sugary next time, because trust me the Fondant is plently sweet enough.
Heres the cake cut into.
Happy 20th Taekwondude!
