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Earlier this week, I made a beach-themed fondant cake to welcome the summer season. This cake was specially requested by (and designed for) my nephews to mark the end of their less-than-traditional school year.
I haven’t had much experience with fondant, beyond the celebration cake workshop during Intermediate Patisserie at Le Cordon Bleu London. In that multi-day workshop, I created a cake decorated with handmade fondant “macarons” stacked on top and spilling over the sides:
So, since it had been awhile since I’d worked with fondant or decorated a tiered cake, this beach-themed cake presented a fun challenge. It also offered an opportunity to refine my modelling skills.
To create my beach themed cake, I began by making lots and lots of decorations, including surfboards, flip-flop sandals, life preservers, beach toys, beach balls, shovels pails, and sandcastles. I also crafted plenty of marine life, like fish, starfish, seashells, and an octopus. I made each individual piece by hand, using white fondant which I’d tinted with gel food coloring in an array of sunny cheerful summer colors.
Underneath the decorations, I wrapped the cake in blue and white rolled fondant with a marble effect:
Fondant Cake Tools and Techniques
For this cake, I relied on a few favorite products, including:
Tylose Powder
Decorator-Preferred Fondant
Chefmaster Liqua-Gel Food Coloring
Fondant Modelling Tools
I do need some additional practice with covering the cake with the rolled fondant (if you look closely, you’ll see that it cracked in a few spots) and I wish I’d had a mini rolling pin handy. Next time, I’d also make the modeled pieces a few days earlier, to allow for plenty of drying time. But over all I was fairly happy with the finished product, and there will definitely be more cakes in my future!
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