If you tell my husband about this post, I will be forced to hunt you down...
Seriously. I mean it. I'm just *so* excited about my first fondant experience! I feel like I need to shout it from the rooftops! "I made something out of fondant! And it looks.... okay!"
I'm making Tyler a Star Wars themed cake for his birthday.... it will go along nicely with his Star Wars themed gifts. Both are surprises. {Let's keep them that way, shall we?} :o) I got the crazy notion to *make* his cake instead of ordering it this year. {It must be from some lingering post-partum hormones...}
I've made cakes before... and since I'm aiming to impress, I decided to use fondant. For the first time. Ever. I've never even used the store-bought stuff. Don't get me wrong though... I've watched those cake shows on TLC & the Food Network too many times to count, so I considered myself good-to-go. Sure I could have used plain old regular icing... but fondant just looks so.... cool. You can do so much with it. It can be texturized, three-dimensional, and the recipe I had even tastes pretty good!
I used this recipe for my fondant. It took a LOT of kneading and even more powdered sugar. {Seriously, I think I must have breathed in about a half cup of the stuff just mixing everything up!} I got food coloring gels from Mary's Cakes & Candies. I was determined to make a little Yoda to sit on the cake.
Here's the final product!
Yes, I know... he has a bit of a pig nose. I told you... it's my first fondant creation.
He's a little wee bit more *portly* than the "traditional" Yoda.
{Even celebrities gain a few pounds, y'know.}
I'm very proud of his little cape--complete with a hood!
Check out those little Jedi toes....
I ♥ how his light saber turned out!
However, I learned that wrinkles are very hard things to create when using fondant.
And this is where he's staying... inside a powdered-sugar-coated storage container... in a cool, dry place.
Now I'm just incredibly anxious to make the actual cake! More pictures to come!
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