How to Cover a Cake in Fondant | Wedding Cakes

right so now I want to find on our cakewe've got a beautiful chilled cake
that's been perfectly crumb coated
it's ready to go I have some fun andpaste here
face basically is is a gelatin andpowdered sugar
mixture and it should feel like play-dohso once you get it out of your bucket
you want to need it
pressed down with the heel of your handforward
take your fingers and fold it back overwe feel
any crumbly bets you wanna cut them outright away don't hook or break them in
your fondant
are you gonna have some little littlepebbles in there they don't get softer
so she gets the consistency where whenyou rub it like this
you get a beautiful smooth finishshouldn't see any little fold in there
now how much fun did you need for cake
a that's a great question what I havehere is
one of my many take measures
and what I'm gonna do is lightly draperat
over the cake service goes to

mark way to measure your fondant
as you want to have a disk that's aboutit install that will flip over
three times within that amount of areaso I've got my measure down here to

the market with my father Pat of
see their and I know now if I have one
to 3 pretty much perfect but a littlebit
min to cut
a little of I don't have so much thatI've got a giant overhang
over my cake if I do that it's going toreally tugged down this is not light
stuff and my corners a fairly sharpsurvive too much fondant
and too much overhang its gonna reallywanna rip around the top which can be
very frustrating
you notice too that my cake is on top aa little riser here
not so that after its fine dont at I cango in and cut straight
around I don't have to go in and cutaround the edge there something and
knives sharp
edge to my body that often sided
that's a powdered sugar here fine meshstrainer
I have to find it paddles attempt to
second have one hand on top of the otherinstruments aside and I'm gonna put a
thin
light layer a powdered sugar over theentire area of which I'm going to roll
it out onto some not just in a pile inthe center
and pushing you now doing the Giantsgiant circles it's about how big it's
gonna be
less is more with the powdered sugar
you don't over do it because thecornstarch that is in powdered sugar
would write up really quickly
opinion I'm using the French rollingpins what I really love about this is
that it's beveled
on the side so I can get more pressureon the left side or the right side so I
get a really perfect circle
also my right arm is much stronger thanmy left so this helps me to even out
so gonna start by just rolling betweenhere and here
it was I'm not going over the edge Ipick up a little more
the powdered sugar you doing a lot ofthese is a good idea not to wear blue
jeans
this will pick up any kind in Lentpowdered sugar helps to create a static
electricity
so annual fuzzies will attach to this
0 now is not the time to answer thephone
you walk away from this can be so drythat when you try to put it on your cake
it's gonna crack around the edges youcan get looks like elephant skins I'm
taking us down to about an eighth of aninch
if you can see the pattern on the tablebeneath that it's too thin
right so I will bring over
my cake which has just come out of therefrigerator
I will put the poor the a rolling pinstraight the top
and rolled it back up and as I rolledonto itself I'm dusting off any excess
powdered sugar
that would keep it from sticking to thebuttercream
of you
so the easiest way to pick it up whothis directly in front of you
I'm gonna line up the bottom lip
with the bottom of the cake and thenslowly
on a roll it over the top it's a littlebit shy at the bottom that's okay as we
work that it's going to be pressing down
falling down so immediately if it hadbeen working really fast
I attach it to the top and that top inch
at the cake without doing is alleviatinga lot of the week from the bottom so
it's not
tugging down of
so now the tech tricky part I'm gonnapull it out with my left hand
with my right hand you take these threefingers
to spread upon my hand and I'm gonnamake circular motions
just threw it all down and attach it tothe buttercream
fun it's kinda magic product fitful
it it absorbs back into itself so onlymoving in one direction
I to go from right to left if you'releft-handed you just do the exact
opposite way
and then we have our last
Little Falls UK
so if you have some polls that have goneover each other
it's not really going to fix itself youkinda have to pull this off
picture buttercream partner Fredrefrigerator and then start over you can
use the find it again
if you peel it off just taken by mypaper towel and wipe off any excess
buttercream
you be able to use it that way soon as Ihave a
few bubbles the top a five straight pin
just pierced them with this is justgonna poke it with a knife
and I'll go back and smooth that inlater so we will be able to see it
ok
some skinny use this on the top
so not leave a handprint again and I'mgonna go all the way around the cake
this will smooth out
any ridges in the buttercream beneath
already ever clean sharp blade here
and then go straight in find the bottom
love my board just like this and I'm
only going to take the knife in I'm notgonna start back and forth with all back
and forth its gonna pour the fondant
out and distorted a little bit so justgo all the way around
and back in the refrigerator ghost andthat is how you find out a cake This article is from web site cake-for-you.com