I love making cakes. It seems it’s become my main for of art over the last few years. I used to paint, take photos, draw, write songs and everything in between, but lately it’s just been cakes. I still take alot of pictures, but rarely for the sake of art. Mostly for the sake of memories.
For Emily’s Birthday I(with some help from Sheymus and Beccas) made her a chef cake!
I started with a devil’s food cake with Butterscotch chip Buttercream
Butterscotch Chip Buttercream (spin-off of a Wilton recipe)
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Shortening
1 TB Vanilla
Cream together.Oh how I love my KitchenAid Mixer! Thanks Other Mom!
Add Icing sugar until its like a dough. 3/4 of a bag.
Then at 1TB of milk at a time until it is the consistency you like.
In a food processer chop up 1 Cup Butterscotch chips until they are tiny bits.
Mix them together! Yum!. This works well with any kind of chips.Chocolate, white chocolate, mint chocolate, Reece’s Pieces, but probably not Ketchup Chips…
Then I made some Marshmallow Fondant! Yum. You have to try this fondant because it is so yummy and most fondant tastes aweful! If you can make rice Krispy Squares, you can make fondant!
Marshmallow Fondant
1 Bag Mini Marshmallows in a bowl.
1 TB of water
Microwave 30 seconds then stir. Repete until you have smooth goo. Thats the technical term…
Then add icing sugar until it becomes thick and less sticky. Then I pour it onto a counter with icing sugar on it and work it until it becomes a soft non-sticky dough.
Then it is like play-doh! Roll it out to cover a cake or shape it into fun things to put on top. You can colour it with gel colours. Food colouring wont work very well.
For the Chef Cake I decided to put a table cloth of Fondant on it. So I used the gel colour with a tiny bit of water to make a paint and painted the squares. I really liked how the red because so shiny! Then We used my embossing tools to make a pattern in the corners and coloured that in with black gel colour.
The chef’s hat is cake too! It has fondant over it and gel colour paint to make Emily’s name look like it’s stitched on.
Fondant is so much fun!
But probably not ketchup chips. Ha. You’re hysterical.
It turned out SO awesome. I’ve never gotten very creative with my cake decorating but you’re inspiring me to try!
You should so try it. Fondant is just big kid playdoh! Its super fun to work with. and you can even practice on the upside down of a cake pan if you want too. Or cover the cake with icing and then make figures or things out of fondants just for decorations. even tiny fondant flowers look awesome on cupcakes!
Hi there, I love this cake. I like the idea of making my own fondant. I was wondering what exactly is the icing sugar? Thanks.