There was this time when I thought I was going to get into decorating cakes using fondant. And not just the fondant you buy in the store, I was learning to make my own.
It’s really fun and pretty amazing, what you can create or replicate with fondant. I was obsessed with watching Youtube videos on how to do it. These bakers made it look so easy.
Making the fondant itself wasn’t the hardest part, although it can be tricky if it’s too sticky. But rolling out and laying the fondant down flat is insanely difficult.
Also, I’ve not an artistic bone in my body so I’m not sure how I thought I could possibly mold 3D characters and shapes out of the fondant. But I tried.
I made an “emoji” themed cake for one of Cordelia’s tween years birthdays. I tried to make a John Deere tractor to put on top of my Dad’s 70th birthday. It turned out okay but did look pretty amateurish. The tractor was made with rice krispy cake and then covered with the green/yellow fondant and set on top of a two layer cake that was meant to look like tractor tires.
I tried.
Eventually gave up. Besides being time consuming it was money consuming to keep buying the marshmallows, icing sugar, etc.
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