Fondant
60g vegetable shortening (copha)
2 Tb lemon juice (for a chocolate cake use 2Tb water and 1 tsp vanilla)
2 Tb water
750g icing sugar
Place shortening, lemon juice and water in a saucepan.
Heat gently, stirring until shortening has melted.
Sift 250g icing sugar into the pan. Stir continuously over low heat.
Once sugar has dissolved stop stirring. As soon as the mixture starts to boil remove it from the heat.
Gradually add enough of the remaining sugar to form a soft paste. Mix until mixture is smooth.
Dust a work surface lightly with icing sugar and knead fondant until it is no longer sticky. Add more icing sugar until fondant is firm.
Stir fondant in an airtight container so it doesn’t dry out.
Working with Fondant
It is quite difficult working with fondant the first time. Here are some tricks we picked up:
- roll the fondant on baking paper. When you have got the desired thickness place the cake on top of the fondant and then curl it up the sides. This saves you picking the fondant up as it will break if you try to do so.
- ‘Patch’ up any bits that crumble off or split with a finger dipped in water.
- If you are adding colour do it when you add the first round of icing sugar - it will be much easier.
Making Optimus Prime
Winny and I made optimus for Dan’s 26th birthday.
First we baked two square chocolate malteser cakes, and one rectangle butter cake.
We cut the malteser cakes into three and then stacked them two high, joining them with a choc malteser butter icing. We then covered them in blue fondant.
We cut the third strips into squares to make the feet and again joined them with butter icing, and covered them in blue fondant.
To make the cab we covered the butter cake in red fondant.
We decorated it using butter icing coloured in grey and black (made with black food dye) butter icing, and silver balls.
Marshmallow headlights, oreo tyres.
We made the logo out of fondant and decorated it with piped black icing.
I feel sick now from eating too much icing….
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