Fondant Birthday Cake
Today I made my first and LAST fondant cake! Why?? It’s back breaking work. Kneading the fondant is not my favorite task and it is messy as hell. I’ve always said that baking should be left to the baker. The money is worth it to have it made.
Anyways, I’m still glad I took a shot at it. I’ve always enjoyed making my kids their birthday cakes each year. I usually just whip up a buttercream icing, colour it and decorate it using a piping bag with tips. Honestly, I still prefer that method. Fondant cakes are very beautiful and I admire anyone who can do this but for me I don’t enjoy the clean up.
So, this morning I baked a chocolate cake from scratch.
I substituted the white sugar with Splenda as my son is a Type 1 Diabetic. Then I whipped up some Buttercream Icing in order to “dirty Ice” the cake. If you watch Cake Boss, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Why am I making such a rich icing for my son? He doesn’t get to eat the icing and in order to decorate I need a sturdy icing.
THEN, I made the fondant. I found this fondant recipe from a site called thecookduke.com Good recipe and I thank The Cook Duke for the wonderful recipe.
The original plan was to make a Sponge Bob cake which is what I really wanted to make. My son decided that since his birthday party was going to be at the Telus World of Science he wanted a science theme. I suggested a cake of our solar system. So, thus, his cake was born.
It’s not bad. Not my favorite looking cake but it wasn’t a disaster. The icing is definitely not for a Diabetic but we’ll be scraping the icing off for his piece.
One tip that I strongly suggest is get yourself a silicone cake pan. I used one and I love love love it. So easy to get the cake out it’s ridiculous.
