My first fondant cake. Be Nice. ;)

Inspired by Bakerella’s awesome Valentine’s Candy Cake, I decided to make dear husband something similar but not quite.

Based on the heart shape being slightly girly (I consulted with my go to “guy questions”  friend), red velvet not his favorite type of cake and store bought fondant not to his taste as well, I made many off the cuff changes. The plan then was to make a square shaped candy box, the cake being a Brown Sugar Spice covered in Dark Chocolate Ganache.

I got to test many things while doing this project, the first one was my brand new Williams-Sonoma Rectangular Cake Pan which I have to say is great, the cake was uniform and perfectly baked, the second test was that I had been meaning to try Marshmallow fondant since forever… Which I did! It was great, however, I think it was too elastic for the purpose.

Anyways, the whole project took me two days and was a great success!
Happy to say my husband loved it and I got a Fisheye Camera for Valentines!

What I learned was:

• Not to use something darker than the fondant as glue, ie. ganache.
• The Marshmallow fondant is indeed better to work with they day after you make it.
• I should minimize the number of seams on my next project.
• If you need a round shape cutter a really big tip from the Wilton 28-Piece Deluxe Tip Set, will do the trick very well.
• When dealing with green fondant your friends will come over and think you’re playing with Play-Doh and not even question you about it.