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| Babygirl |
In 2 more days my darling daughter will be 3, THREE, drei, tres, THREE! I can not believe time has flown by so quickly. She's my darling only lil babygirl, full of personality, laughter, and er dirt. This year, as I said
here, I am working with fondant for the first time ever. And I am super nervous.
I started the fondant THREE weeks in advance- told ya I was nervous. I surfed the web, looked at every single baking forum, youtube video, blog I could find about this sweet, yet intimidating dough. I talked to a few friends about it as well! I found marshmallow fondant to be the easiest and one of the tastiest to make from scratch. There are numerous of marshmallow fondant recipes and I used the one from the
Wilton's website. Since I am coloring the fondant, I did not use a clear vanilla flavoring, just the pure stuff, so there is a slight off-white color. It tastes great and the soon-to-be birthday girl approves!
Some photos!
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| Ingredients |
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| Rubbing the table down with Crisco. This is a messy sticky process! |
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| Water and marshmallows from the microwave |
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| Stirring in sugar. SIFT SUGAR FIRST!!!!! I did not and paid for it. |
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| Lots of kneading. Lots of sugar and Crisco to prevent stickiness. |
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| Sweetest dough ever! I am proud. But I still have to color it and put it on the cake! |
I wrapped the fondant in plastic wrap and then in an airtight plastic bag then did three Hail Marys over it. Ok one of those three things aren't true. Take a guess ;)
Last weekend my good friend from the states sent me all kinds of Wilton Gel dyes, so in the next post I will show that process as well. I am so nervous- eek!
Yesterday, my daughter helped prep her cake. I used a Butter Cake Recipe from my
Martha Stewart's Cooking School Cookbook. I made this cake last winter and forgot a whole stick of butter and the cake was STILL moist. So I had to try it again, and I did not forget the stick of butter this time!
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| buttering the pans |
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| Now parchment |
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| flouring pans |
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| Refrigerated, ready to be decorated. |
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| Too early to make a wish, baby. Well unless you're wishing mommy doesn't mess up the cake!! |
Tomorrow is the big decorating day. Then Thursday is her birthday!!
I am sure the cake will be fantastic!! Happy Birthday to the birthday girl!!
ReplyDeleteCan not wait to see the finished cake :-D xx
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the finished cake! I bet it will be beautiful and what a cute little princess you have there, they grow up way too fast though :o( mine just turned 17 a few months ago!
ReplyDeleteWow, you made fondant? Holy cow! That's impressive. Your little girl is absolutely beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAww such a sweetheart. I hope your lil girl has a great birthday and I can't wait to see what you've done with the fondant!
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies! She's really excited about her cake. I meant to add that it wasn't so har, just messy. I was just nervous as I am with all new recipes. hehe. I made the fondant myself because I wasn't sure of its availability in Germany. I did, however find some AFTER I made this. So if I muck this up, I will buy some :)
ReplyDeleteAw, you did such a great job! I was too scared to make the fondant myself. But in future, if i ever need to , i know where to look! :)
ReplyDeleteYour daughter looks soooo cute and im sure she will be pleased with it. I hope you all and especially her, have a great day!
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ReplyDeleteWow. You made that look easy! Can't wait to see how it turns out. Love your blog.
Thanks Morello! I decorated it yesterday and got so down because i am sooo not creative. but i showed some friends via FB and they were really nice about it! It smells evenly. can not wait to eat it. I will try to be more creative with my son's cupcakes.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! You've inspired me to try making my own marshmellow fondant for my baby's first birthday coming up Nov. 2. I've heard marshmellow fondant tastes way better than regular fondant?
ReplyDeleteYour cake turned out so pretty..people pay alot of money for cakes like that! I hope mine turns out as nice as yours!
thanks deb ;) the fondant was tasty! i will do it again soon! i am sure you will make your lil one's cake so amazing! looking forward to seeing it!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! I would be intimitated to make fondant as well! I have never tried it. I'm curious to see how the cake turned out. I'm reading on....
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