Fondant icing is what those decorative icing pieces are on those fancy cakes everyone stares at in awe and since its K's 21st tomorrow I had a bright idea. Well the whole thing worked out perfectly in my head and obviously reality is so different.
I wanted to make a 3D pug since K is obsessed with them even though I have no idea why, their faces are...I won't start. So I researched on how to make the modelling icing which I found out was called fondant icing. The recipe online was basically this :
300 icing sugar
1 teaspoon Copha
1 teaspoon gelatine
1 1/2 tablespoons water
After mixing everything together apparently the result would be an icing ball.
I never got to experience this for the laziness in me got tempted by the ready sold fondant icing mixture at Waitrose and all that needed to be added was 4-6 tablespoons of water.
Simple and easy for a quickie.
So I went about doing so at home when K was out on a photoshoot job and the photo above is what I ended up with.
Major SIGH.
I probably had mixed in too much water and the icing 'dough' was too soft and kept 'sinking' as the layers went on. Eventually I gave up trying to mould and build up a 3D structure so what started out to be a cute and adorable pug turned out to be a flatten 2D comical one. To make up for my shame, I managed to build up a few coloured presents which I just brushed on a few colourings. Hopefully they will be transferred to the cake with no problems tomorrow.
However this mini home do experience is pretty fun when you have time. Great activity for groups and the icing is so so tasty.
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