Debby is getting married soon. And she is working out the details for her wedding. She and Jeff have a really tight budget so they are trying to keep things simple and inexpensive, but nice. I guess they had a friend or somebody offer to make a cake for them for $200! My jaw dropped in amazement. I said ‘Cake is not that expensive’. So I started offering different ideas not to tell Debby what she should do but what she *could* do. So she started telling me what she wanted and asked if I thought I could make it. Uh I can try. 🙂
So she wants a cake, she doesn’t seem to care what kind of cake. She just wants it to have white fondant on it, and pink flowers. So she and I went to wal mart to see what kind of supplies we could get. We picked out a nice cake stand and I got cake pans of all sizes and a few other supplies and we came home and set to work.
Now I feel that I should mention that I’ve never made a cake from scratch before, that is until last month. We grew up with mom making cake from a box mix, and there is nothing wrong with that. I am by no means a cake expert. But the chocolate cake recipe that I made last month turned out so good that I’ve now made it 3 times in the past two months. 😛
Last night I got to work trying to make fondant, which was definitely an adventure. I found a recipe for a marshmallow fondant online, and tried it out. I melted the marshmallows with a little water like it said to then it said to pour 3/4 of the powdered sugar the recipe called for onto the melted marshmallow in the bowl then turn it out on a *well greased* counter then knead it with your *well greased* hands like bread dough. Well let’s just say that it was NOTHING like bread dough. The marshmallow slid all over the counter. The powdered sugar kept poofing everywhere. I ended up with marshmallow on my shirt, and powdered sugar all down my pants, and on the dishwasher and all over the floor. You know that Disney cartoon where Mickey, Donald and Goofy are trying to scare ghosts, and they end up crashing into a pile of sticky stuff and a bag of flour falls on them and they end up scaring the ghosts by looking like goopy ghosts themselves? Well that’s how I felt I looked after trying to make the fondant!
Tonight I actually got to use the fondant and put it on my chocolate cake:
Pretty good for a first try huh? Even if I do say so myself. 😉 I think I trimmed it off too short in some areas, but HEY that’s why I’m practicing right? I am going to be making a lot of cake over the next few weeks, so hopefully I’ll end up being able to make a cake that Debby will like. She did like the chocolate cake, she doesn’t want the official wedding cake to be decorated like this one though.
Like the cute cake stand?