Fondant Birthday Cake!!

This is a two tier birthday cake for a friend of mine at work. The bottom is 2 8" chocolate cakes with a vanilla buttercrean icing and the top tier is 2 6" french vanilla cakes with a lemon filling and vanilla buttercream onthe outside. The outside is marshmallow fondant. I saw this cake on youtube and thought of my friend Cathy at work and I was asked to do the cake and I immediately thought of this cake. I dont want to take credit for the design because I have seen this cake on youtube and on cake central. I made the mistake of putting the cake in the freezer and then when it came out it began to sweat and the fondant started to get very sticky and then the cake started to sink.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Fondant
• Birthday
• Cake
• Tessy010982

[Tessy010982]

oh my i have not been on youtube in forever i didnt realize all the comments, the cake sizes for this one are 8" on the bottom and 6" on the top and we actually fed my entire dept at work which was about 25 people

[mariah1227]

did u just stack the two cakes or did u use dowles?

[Tessy010982]

you know i just stacked them and that was a big big mistake i should have used dowl rodes b/c by the time i got it to work it was sinking on the one side

[mariah1227]

o ok thanks cause its my cousins b-day and i want to make a cake like that in purple and pink...how did you do the animal print?

[Tessy010982]

with the animal print i just rolled out my fondant and took a pizza cutter and just cut them out free hand any lines you do on that will come out ok once you put them on your cake it will start to come together....

[Shelenator]

looks really clean, I like it! i agree the bow is wonderful. I don't think that the wilton fondant tastes very good either.. i've heard that satin ice tastes pretty good I'm going to try it. did you just cut the zebra stripes out by hand or di dyou have a template?

[Tessy010982]

I am glad you liked the cake....I actually dyed the fondant black myself for the stripes and let me tell you that becomes a pain so if you can buy it black thats what i would do but i just sat here with a pizza cutter and cut them free hand it was actually kinda fun!

[kimberley2022]

What size are they please ? the cake sizes 

[louisalovlydowackado]

if u put fondant on a cake u cannot freeze or refrigerate it the fondant will melt so be careful:)

[stephiepz]

Wow I luuuv this cake!!! :)

[monicaolsonphotograp]

I LOVE the bow! It would be cool to see a video of you making one (hint,hint) :o)

[haley4eva]

I know you mentioned the marshmallow fondant. What I usually do and what my cousin who is a sous chef has said is to make the cake and ice it and put that in the freezer until the icing feels hard, then put the fondant on it and shouldn't need to be frozen. All I ever use is marshmallow fondant, just marshmallows and powdered sugar and I've never had a problem. (:

[Catarina96]

I want that! :P

[dooditgirl19]

thats great im dying to maske that cake now but how did you make the bow

[hgdhfbv]

This is honestly so cool :D

[lopezteena23]

what kind of cake do you use are you suppose to use pound cake.