FONDANT!!

This was the first day that I worked with fondant. For anyone who doesn't know, fondant is basically a thick and pliable frosting. Actually, it is more like play-doh than frosting. A benefit of fondant is that you can sculpt almost anything. In fact, I made little flowers that covered and encompassed a little girl’s birthday castle cake. I never tasted fondant before, but I can only imagine it tasting bad. You start with either a white fondant or brown (chocolate) fondant, but it can be any color you want by simply adding some dye and mixing or kneading the combination in your hand or on the table. You have to remember to clean the table and wear gloves, because fondant will pick up anything and the dye will dye your hands. This process can be really tedious, especially if the color of the fondant has to match another color. For example, when I had to make a brownish-blue fondant that matched the icing on someone’s order, it took me half an hour to make the colors coordinate. When the customer of the brownish-blue cake arrived, I was lucky to be the one to give it to her, because her reaction to the cake was priceless. Making the fondant color maybe annoying, but, in the end, it is worth it.