...Ponderings...

 

A few weeks before my sister’s 24th birthday, I got the brilliant idea that I wanted to bake a cake for her. I wanted to do something special for her. She’s been a violinist for..ever. So I decided to fashion a violin out of fondant for her. But that wasn’t enough. I would cover the cake entirely in fondant. Still, that wasn’t enough. I would make the fondant from scratch!!!

 

Or so I thought.

 

The cake turned out so much better than expected:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, this isn’t exactly the way things went the whole time…

 

Here’s recipe from Bake at 350 on how to make homemade fondant.What followed after discovering that recipe was this…

 

 

I used two smaller bags of mini marshmallows. Mostly because that’s all the store had, but it was too much so I had to use just part of the second bag.

(Afterthought- what do kites have to do with marshmallows??)

 

 

I then mixed it all together using a Kitchenaid stand-up mixer but that didn’t work really well so I used this. It was a spatula once.


Then I got ready to knead the fondant.

I’m not sure what the purpose of the Crisco was but the recipe called for it.

Voila. Finished fondant.

Er. What have I got myself into now?

So I just used an old trick momma always taught me when my baking didn’t turn out quite right.

Now that’s more like it.

Hey, it worked. Sis loved the cake.