By J Michael Bailey
Fondant is one of the most used essentials in the cake decorating industry. You can easily make fondant at home, and it is the best way to give that perfectly smooth complexion to the birthday cake you are making.
Spruce It Up and Build Your Cake
You can add color and flavoring to the fondant since you most likely do not want to make a pure white birthday cake decorating. Also, think about what decorations you will want to put on the cake. Get cookie cutters in shapes that you would need, or even buy cake decorating tools that allow you to precisely cut fondant into other shapes that can only be made by hand.
Once your cake is cooled, spread a light layer of buttercream around the top and sides to help the fondant stick. Gently lay the fondant over the cake and spread it softly from the inside out, and around the sides. This will allow you to get rid of any air bubbles in the fondant and between the fondant and the cake. If you have multiple layers, do this to each layer and put a dab of butter cream to ensure the layers stick on top of each other without falling off.
Children's Birthday Cake
If your son or daughter likes Disney movies, you can create a Disney-themed cake. By using your decorating tools, you can create flat characters that you can place on your cake. If you are a really good artist and steady with your hands, you can build them out of the fondant to make them more realistic and three-dimensional. Use different food coloring dyes to add effect to each character. To really thrill the birthday child, incorporate his name onto the cake somehow.
Adult Birthday Cake
Make a birthday-present-shaped cake in the shape of a shoe box for a girl's birthday, or a guitar case for a guy. You can easily cut and shape the cake to reflect any of these shapes, and then you just cover it in fondant and get to work. Decorate the shoe box cake with designer shoe names on the boxes, or label the guitar cake with the boy's name and the guitar brand in fine writing. To finish off the birthday-present cake, cut strips of colored fondant and lay them across the top of the cake in each direction creating a bow.
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