It all began the first week of February when I realized that getting my husband a present for his birthday was out of the question, because I couldn't afford it.
I thought the best present to get him would be something I made and I came up with baking him a cake. I thought for a few days on what kind of cake to bake and decided on a plain vanilla cake.
And then a thought came to me. Why not cover the cake with icing or even better yet use that smooth icing (I didn't know what fondant was).
So I did a Google search for "smooth covered cake" and the photos were amazing, that's where I understood that they were covered in fondant. I made another search on how to make fondant. And then looked at so many videos and read so many websites on how to cover cakes and how to decorate cakes and how to make fondant and how to handle fondant and how to...
I then went out shopping for these ingredients to make fondant. I looked EVERYWHERE but I couldn't find most of these ingredients in Spain and there was no one who could help me. I asked around and no one knew! I even asked a friend who used to work in a cake shop and she said they never used these ingredients in their shop!
Now, I really wanted to make this smooth cake for my husbands' birthday so, I decided to substitute these ingredients I couldn't find.
So - I made my "fondant" and it seemed to be looking good enough and it tasted good too.
The next day I baked my cake, let it cool and rolled out the fondant to cover my cake.
I thought it was a disaster! I spent hours---from 10 am until 2 pm trying to get this icing rolled out right and cover the cake. Every time I lifted this fondant to place on the cake it broke!
I didn't read anywhere that the fondant would dry if you added too much icing sugar to it - or that it would crack and get hard quickly if you don't cover it!
But I covered my cake with my dry, cracked fondant! I wrote Happy Birthday on it! And I placed the candles on the cake!
I had family come over to celebrate and eat cake---at the end of all that, they liked the cake!
I thought the best present to get him would be something I made and I came up with baking him a cake. I thought for a few days on what kind of cake to bake and decided on a plain vanilla cake.
And then a thought came to me. Why not cover the cake with icing or even better yet use that smooth icing (I didn't know what fondant was).
So I did a Google search for "smooth covered cake" and the photos were amazing, that's where I understood that they were covered in fondant. I made another search on how to make fondant. And then looked at so many videos and read so many websites on how to cover cakes and how to decorate cakes and how to make fondant and how to handle fondant and how to...
I then went out shopping for these ingredients to make fondant. I looked EVERYWHERE but I couldn't find most of these ingredients in Spain and there was no one who could help me. I asked around and no one knew! I even asked a friend who used to work in a cake shop and she said they never used these ingredients in their shop!
Now, I really wanted to make this smooth cake for my husbands' birthday so, I decided to substitute these ingredients I couldn't find.
So - I made my "fondant" and it seemed to be looking good enough and it tasted good too.
The next day I baked my cake, let it cool and rolled out the fondant to cover my cake.
I thought it was a disaster! I spent hours---from 10 am until 2 pm trying to get this icing rolled out right and cover the cake. Every time I lifted this fondant to place on the cake it broke!
I didn't read anywhere that the fondant would dry if you added too much icing sugar to it - or that it would crack and get hard quickly if you don't cover it!
But I covered my cake with my dry, cracked fondant! I wrote Happy Birthday on it! And I placed the candles on the cake!
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