A Tale of Two Cakes

Friday was a crazy mixed up day. It was the day that I was going to make a "gift box" cake for a client. She really wanted a cake made of fondant like she had seen on "Ace of Cakes," but she was unaware that fondant can taste nasty and is usually taken off before the cake is eaten. I found a recipe for marshmallow fondant that tasted great --- we made it on Thursday afternoon and colored it in the evening. Everything was in place to bake and decorate a fantastic cake...

Friday morning the cake layers were baked off and the raspberry creme filling was made. I filled the cake and crumb iced it---freezing it for just a bit to firm it up. After applying the fondant we noticed that the cake was starting to fall and lean a bit. We tried to firm it up in the freezer, but fondant and freezers don't play well together. It was a "cake wreck" a true disaster. So we started again...buttercream this time.

The cake turned out fantastic, the only fondant on it was the bow and ribbons---the rest of the cake is iced and decorated in colored buttercream. I prefer buttercream over fondant at this point...maybe someday I will try again!