My younger brother David just had his 17th birthday, I wanted to make him a cool cake so I decided on the 'companion cube'. It is from the video game Portal, David loves that game and it so happens that I do too : )
I started off with making marshmallows for the marshmallow fondant. I have never worked with fondant before and heard that the marshmallow kind tasted the best, so that is what I made.
I needed to get a square cake pan (how did I not have one already?!) I'm cheap, so even though this would be a four layer cake, I just got one pan...
4 hours of baking/cooling time later, the chocolate agave cakes were ready to be frosted! David's favorite color is orange, that that is what I made the inner frosting. The frosting was a 'cream-cheese frosting' folded into sweetened whipped cream, sorry I don't have a recipe I just made it up as I went (It turned out really good though) The key thing is you need a lot of it...
I frosted the middle of each cake liberally but you also have to frost all of the outside so the fondant will stick to it.
The fondant was a little tricky to work with, but it was fun to try something new. After I rolled it out and cut the pieces, I would get them a little wet so that they would stick to each other better.
The fondant part of decorating the cake took me about 3 hours to do (that was with the fondant already being made) The cake didn't turn out perfect but it was pretty good for my first time!
The Cake was a big hit with everyone!
And the slices were huge...
6 comments:
So awesome!!! and great job with the fondant. That stuff scares me.
Fun! It looks yummy!
Amazing! I can't believe you tackled fondant with homemade marshmallows. You are awesome.
It tasted delicious! And it looked amazing. You did a great job!
Wow - yeah that looks great for your first time with fondant! Great job!!!
Wow, that looks so awesome! Hope the cake was as delicious as it looks.
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