How To Decorate Wedding Cakes With Fondant

Learn how to decorate a wedding cake with fondant frosting flowers candy glitter and other embellishments in these howcast videos.

How to decorate wedding cakes with fondant. When trying to determine the size of your fondant sheet you need to cover a cake measure across the top of the cake and down each side and add the measurements together. Http amzn to 1iov24y rotating cake stand. This accompanying video would take you through the steps of covering your wedding cake with fondant.

The fondant should cover the top and extend down and past the sides of the cake. Michelle doll is a professional chef instructor and design expert in park slope brooklyn where she lives with her husband graphic artist eric olson and their son. Try to find pans that are three inches deep.

Hold the rolling pin with fondant over the center of your cake and lower it towards the cake. It is said that a picture speaks more than a thousand words. Unroll the fondant off the rolling pin so it gradually falls across the entire cake.

Making a wedding cake with fondant is just a graduated step of covering a cake with fondant. The tiers should be stored in the refrigerator at this point. This fondant covered cake decorated with hydrangeas is made of three graduated square tiers.

Each tier consists of two layers which means you ll need to bake two 6 inch cakes two 8 inch cakes and two 10 inch cakes. Drape the fondant over the cake. I usually like to cut the fondant in the general shape of the cake just to get rid of any excess areas so they don t get in the way.

A video therefore would speak much louder. This tutorial will show you how to bake and decorate a round 3 tier wedding cake featuring a 10 inch bottom tier an 8 inch middle tier and a 6 inch top tier. Before you begin working with the fondant prepare all of the cakes by baking filling and crumb coating each with a thin layer of buttercream icing.