Showing posts with label cabbage roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cabbage roses. Show all posts

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Fondant Frills


I've been admiring Maggie Austin's Fondant Frill cake for quite some time and was SUPER excited when she created a Craftsy class to explain her technique.  I must have watched this video  10 times- Certain sections, many more... I had a few stumbles along the way, but I didn't give up and I'm so happy with the end result....

My fondant color gradient

 The first layer...  My fondant kept tearing, I had too much water on my finger when I applied it.  I started using a paint brush which worked much better for me...


Here's one thing you should NEVER do... Stick a knife in the pasta roller to try to unlodge a paper towel that is stuck... unfortunetly  I ruined this pasta roller... This happened after only the second row of fondant was applied... After a few trips to some department stores, I obtained a new pasta roller, learned my lesson and never placed a sharp object near the thing and I was able to finish the cake the next night... Crisis overted...



The "cake" before I turned it over.  I was too nervous to do this on actual cake and also didn't have the time to bake a cake so I used a stryofoam cake base


Post Flip.



My Cabbage roses prior to dusting...



After dusting...  So happy with the way they turned out...

The completed cake