Playing with fondant

I've always wanted to work with fondant. I have friends who are awesome at cake decorating & I always thought it would be great to learn because ordering a fondant decorated cake is expensive. I even looked into the classes at Michael's & Joann's but I didn't want to have to take the 2 intro classes  they required before you can take the fondant class. So it took me a while to try it. I started out with simple whale fondant toppers for a friend's baby shower.

Fondant cupcake toppers made with a homemade fondant cutter

I also made the fondant whale toppers for the cake.

My nephew- Chunky Monkey's first birthday is coming up and I volunteered to help with desserts & even told my sister I would make fondant toppers if she wanted. I must've mentioned fondant a lot because for my birthday she got me this awesome Wilton starter set that has all the tools you need to start off with.

I decided to make something with fondant for Koala's birthday. We had a small immediate family birthday celebration on her birthday and I thought that would be great practice for her real birthday. 

This was my first real attempt at fondant decorating- Pororo cake toppers.

I bought blue fondant and white, which I dyed to make the other colors. I also looked  up tutorials on Pinterest & came across this awesome step by step tutorial. It's not in English but the pictures were helpful.  Mine didn't come out as cute as the tutorial but not bad for my first try.

I also made these cupcake toppers.

Finally, I made a 4 inch two layer cake that I covered in fondant. The edge on the bottom was very bumpy so I added the ribbon. (After I made the cake I watched a YouTube video on how to do it- should have watched that before!)

I had printed out these Pororo cutouts to use as decoration but didn't have anywhere to put them so I stuck them in the cake too.


Working with the fondant was actually a lot of fun! I can't wait to use it again!