1. Be too lazy to make more buttercream, and just use your small amount of leftover icing that does not entirely cover the outside of the cake. This will make it especially tricky to lay your fondant smoothly.
2. Roll your fondant so thin that you can see the marker lines from the mat, through it. If this is your first attempt, make sure you up the ante, and use a press to imprint a design in the fondant, and press too hard and make holes.
3. Lay the fondant over the cake unevenly. When you peel it off to re-lay it, make sure you scoop up some crumbs and buttercream in the fondant, so when you roll it out again, you have a nice, natural speckle to the fondant.
4. Do not watch any tutorial videos, or read any advice prior to finishing the smoothing process. Just slap the fondant down on the cake, squeeze the wrinkles out, and hope that the holes fill themselves.
5. Make a border to cover the huge gap between the cake board and the cake, because you didn’t carve the cake prior to icing.
6. That’s it! That is all you need to do to have yourself a completely ugly holey fondant covered cake!
Omg i’m dying- I love your captions/instructions! I’ll be attempting my first fondant cake soon- i’d better practice first!
I’m glad I made you laugh…because at the time, I was almost crying!!! I tried to make light of this dreadful event. Good luck with you first fondant cover!