How to Cover a Cake in Fondant | Wedding Cakes how to make
How to Cover a Cake in Fondant | Wedding Cakes
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mark way to measure your fondant as you want to have a disk that's aboutit install that will flip over three times within that amount of areaso I've got my measure down here to
the market with my father Pat of see their and I know now if I have one to 3 pretty much perfect but a littlebit min to cut a little of I don't have so much thatI've got a giant overhang over my cake if I do that it's going toreally tugged down this is not light stuff and my corners a fairly sharpsurvive too much fondant and too much overhang its gonna reallywanna rip around the top which can be very frustrating you notice too that my cake is on top aa little riser here not so that after its fine dont at I cango in and cut straight around I don't have to go in and cutaround the edge there something and knives sharp edge to my body that often sided that's a powdered sugar here fine meshstrainer I have to find it paddles attempt to second have one hand on top of the otherinstruments aside and I'm gonna put a thin light layer a powdered sugar over theentire area of which I'm going to roll it out onto some not just in a pile inthe center and pushing you now doing the Giantsgiant circles it's about how big it's gonna be less is more with the powdered sugar you don't over do it because thecornstarch that is in powdered sugar would write up really quickly opinion I'm using the French rollingpins what I really love about this is that it's beveled on the side so I can get more pressureon the left side or the right side so I get a really perfect circle also my right arm is much stronger thanmy left so this helps me to even out so gonna start by just rolling betweenhere and here it was I'm not going over the edge Ipick up a little more the powdered sugar you doing a lot ofthese is a good idea not to wear blue jeans this will pick up any kind in Lentpowdered sugar helps to create a static electricity so annual fuzzies will attach to this 0 now is not the time to answer thephone you walk away from this can be so drythat when you try to put it on your cake it's gonna crack around the edges youcan get looks like elephant skins I'm taking us down to about an eighth of aninch if you can see the pattern on the tablebeneath that it's too thin right so I will bring over my cake which has just come out of therefrigerator I will put the poor the a rolling pinstraight the top and rolled it back up and as I rolledonto itself I'm dusting off any excess powdered sugar that would keep it from sticking to thebuttercream of you so the easiest way to pick it up whothis directly in front of you I'm gonna line up the bottom lip with the bottom of the cake and thenslowly on a roll it over the top it's a littlebit shy at the bottom that's okay as we work that it's going to be pressing down falling down so immediately if it hadbeen working really fast I attach it to the top and that top inch at the cake without doing is alleviatinga lot of the week from the bottom so it's not tugging down of so now the tech tricky part I'm gonnapull it out with my left hand with my right hand you take these threefingers to spread upon my hand and I'm gonnamake circular motions just threw it all down and attach it tothe buttercream fun it's kinda magic product fitful it it absorbs back into itself so onlymoving in one direction I to go from right to left if you'releft-handed you just do the exact opposite way and then we have our last Little Falls UK so if you have some polls that have goneover each other it's not really going to fix itself youkinda have to pull this off picture buttercream partner Fredrefrigerator and then start over you can use the find it again if you peel it off just taken by mypaper towel and wipe off any excess buttercream you be able to use it that way soon as Ihave a few bubbles the top a five straight pin just pierced them with this is justgonna poke it with a knife and I'll go back and smooth that inlater so we will be able to see it ok some skinny use this on the top so not leave a handprint again and I'mgonna go all the way around the cake this will smooth out any ridges in the buttercream beneath already ever clean sharp blade here and then go straight in find the bottom love my board just like this and I'm only going to take the knife in I'm notgonna start back and forth with all back and forth its gonna pour the fondant out and distorted a little bit so justgo all the way around and back in the refrigerator ghost andthat is how you find out a cake