Happy New Year! Celebrate with Cake!
Posted By aliedmoore
Date: January 1st, 2010
Category: Cakes
Happy New Year! Yes, I’m always finding reasons to make cakes. Always looking for new techniques to try so I can improve. Practice makes perfect…right?
I just finished this cake for New year’s eve. Me, Jimmy, and some friends will cut into this cake after our dinner on New Year’s Eve. This is a yellow cake with strawberry filling. I have been torting my cakes and trying different fillings. Also, covered in buttercream icing and then purple fondant. I made curlicues and stars and air brushed the stars with silver and gold food color paint. There is lot of confetti in preparation for the BIG celebration tomorrow.
Lessons Learned
I used the circle cutter to measure the fondant to ensure the fondant balls bordering the cake were about the same size. Some of the fondant was a little thicker so it did alter the size. The rings on the fondant roller are very helpful to ensure you have the right thickness.
The letter fondant cutters work better if you put crisco on them before cutting the letters. It makes for a clean cut letter.
The curlicues and curly ribbon are all made out of fondant. Next time I would add gum paste to make them dry faster. I would also add tooth picks or candy sticks while still soft so it can dry with the stick attached. All curlicues were attached to cake with toothpicks. Ribbons were inserted directly into cake.
For gold and silver fondant, I used my air brush tool and purchased the sparkly food paint to color my decorations.
I used gum glue to attach all the decorations. Gum glue is water and a small amount of gum paste dissolved.