I stamped fondant for the first time ever, and I’m pretty happy with the result.
Of course, the stamp I used is adorable! Already loved stamps anyway, but never used them. Do you?

It’s yet another cool thing you can do with Fondant. Of course you can buy fondant “texturers” almost anywhere, but searching for cools things around the house seems more fun.

Check some the links for yourself, its very cool.

• Embossed Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
• Springerle Easter Bunny Cupcakes

Dora Cake for Jessie.

A few years back, I met this really cool chick, and she became one of my best friends. While getting some frozen custard at Rita’s one day, she tells that lately she’s been feeling either sick or hungry (hmmm), few months later, I met the cutest little twin babies!

These beautiful babies soon became adorable toddlers who turned 3 this past Friday, and I was delighted to make them individual Dora cakes, one pink and one purple.

At some point it hit me that I could mock up the cakes in Photoshop. You can see them below, a few things changed, the scripted writing for one, I couldn’t pipe that! That was a bit too ambitious. Also, I added the polka dots since I had extra fondant, in fact I still do.

Alright peeps, what I learned was:

• This moment while writing this post, I just learned that Dora’s nose is just a little curve and not at all how I drew it.
• Chocolate is not very forgiving while doing line work.
• Silicone pans are awesome for melting marshmallows in microwave, they slid right off!
• The dough hook of a Kitchenaid is great for kneading MMF.
• Whipped Ganache is quite tasty.
• Writing on cakes is difficult.

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.