Please, please, please, help me out and place an order for a GIRLY cake! My estrogen is begging you!
German Tiger Tank. Uggh. Do I need to say more? I made this cake EXTRA difficult for us, as we were working with a new brand of fondant. I figured, that fondant, is fondant, is fondant, but that was a ROOKIE mistake! This specific brand of fondant is really soft, and was quite difficult to work with. Paul has spent hours researching how to make fondant harder, and we think we have found the secret! I will post a fondant comparison and fondant hardener review soon!
XBox Remote Cake
This cake was done specially for a local birthday boy! His order was very specific, and knew exactly what colours, shape and type of cake he wanted! He even had to poll his friends, to find out which flavour his friends would enjoy most during the celebration! How cute, eh? He (and his friends) ended up choosing Cookie Dough (GREAT choice boys!), and from there, the specifics were up to us!
I started by baking two 8″ round cakes to form the general shape for the remote. Then Paul, and the carving knife, took over (while I went to Tier Cake Class) and he shaped the cake into what you see. He then diligently started working on the pieces of the controller, while I started working on the fondant cover.
We have been having fondant issues of late, and this time, the red fondant was quite dry! I worked with this problem by putting it in the microwave for 10 seconds (seriously!) and added vegetable shortening for more moisture. Working with the red in this way was much better, but while making the stripes to lay over the black, they dried much quicker, and you can see some of the breakage along the sides (if you look carefully . . . so don’t).
To make the tiger stripe overlay, roll out your base colour, cut out your stripes and your accent colour, and lay stripes over top of your base. Use your rolling pin to blend the two colours, and viola! You get one solid sheet of striped fondant!
