2/9/2014 0 Comments My Favorite Month <3It's FEBRUARY!!!! My favorite month of the year. Why? Because there are at least 2 days of Holiday so I don't have to work (though that might change soon), and because it's MY BIRTHDAY MONTH! It is turning out it's also the month I seem to get a bunch of orders. my first one was the football cake from the previous post. And just last week, i received a "last minute" order for a hair salon cake. She sent me a photo of what she was looking for and i decided to take on the challenge. I made the smaller pieces directly out of fondant, and the blow dryer i made out of rice cereal - otherwise, it would be too heavy and actually really hard to shape! Then i wrapped it in fondant and set it up to dry on all sides. I couldn't lay it down, or one side would squish, so I figured out how to stand it up, so it could dry properly. The text was made by poking holes in the fondant from a print out, kinda like how you do a pumpkin carving! I melted some of the blue fondant and mixed it with just a tiny bit of water to make it just liquidy enough to be able to paint it on using a brush. The holes i poked ended up picking up more of the color, but after a 2nd and 3rd go-over, the text looks pretty even throughout... It was my first time using Duff brand fondant, which I found out is Fondarific re-branded (hmmmm...). It is SUPER SOFT. Like the article said, not so great for accents, but thankfully worked out for what i needed it for. And finished the turquoise pieces with some luster dust in vodka. I also make some lemon cake pops for her event. I baked one too many cakes for the number of cake pops she ordered, so with the left over cake and left over fondant, I made dumplings! *more on those later! ;)*
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