How to Use Fondant Icing

There are many different ways on how to use fondant icing. The most common way for a cake decorator to use fondant is to cover their cake with it. When a cake is covered with fondant it gives it a smooth finish. You mostly see fondant cakes on wedding cakes or maybe even a specialize cake. There are other ways to use fondant icing as well.

You can use stencil on your fondant to create patterns on your cake. There are a couple of ways you can do this. First, you can take a fondant stencil and stencil the fondant that is going to cover your cake. Second, you could use smaller stencils to create designs to decorate your cake with.

You can also make fondant icing flowers. There are tons of different varieties of flowers you can make with fondant. The best part of this is they look like real flowers. You can also get very creative with this and paint them, dust them, or already have your fondant icing a specific color and just add some depth to it. Fondant flowers are fun to make and give your cake a very realistic look.

You can start getting creative with your cake by using fondant to make figurines. Whether you need to make animals, people, trees, almost anything you can think of, you can use fondant instead of buying plastic objects for your cakes.

Learning how to use fondant icing can definitely up your skills as a cake decorator. You will be amazed at the different creations of your cakes. You will start venturing into different styles and if you cake decorate for income you will have the ability to charge more because your cakes are created with fondant.

I personally like using fondant instead of butter cream. I can play around with the fondant and come up with different styles for my cakes. The finishing look is flawless and the cake can handle warmer temperatures a little better if it has to sit out for a while as a show case. Granted some people don't like the taste of fondant. I tend to believe it's the texture not the flavor, because it tastes like sugar. So what I do is crumb coat my cake with butter cream, then lightly ice it, and cover my fondant over the cake. I have yet gotten a displeased customer.

If you're interested in learning how to use fondant icing or the different techniques you can apply to your cakes, I have some options that have helped me along my cake decorating path. Just know it is some what difficult to make fondant, most professional cake decorators buy their fondant. You can buy fondant premade at a craft store or a cake decorating store. If you have a Michael's or a Wilton's around you, both of them carry it or you can shop online.

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