Fondant Cake Designs

Whether purchased from the foodstuff or made to your own recipe, fondant icing is a wonderful icing selection for wedding cakes and for alternative "special occasion" cakes. Drying to a smooth alabaster finish, it can be applied to cakes of all shapes and makes the right base for the most inticate or simplest of decoration.

Fondant icing may be a soft sugar-based icing that is usually rolled out to a thickness of regarding 1/4 inch, layer over the cake and smoothed and pressed into place before being cut for a perfect fit.

Despite the fact that fondant cake decorations are ideal for wedding cakes, fondant icing is not continually easy to work with so here are some tips to help you get that excellent result.
Tip 1. a thin layer of icing, spoken as a "crumb coat" ought to be applied to the cake before the fondant icing is added. This produces a sticky surface for the fondant to stay to.