My littlest sister-in-law turned fifteen early July and asked me to decorate her cake. I've decorated cakes before...with droopy icing. I've seen my mom decorate cakes 'professionally' but I've never decorated a cake for an event before. For sure not a formal banquet/party. Yikes! But when a fifteen-year-old cutie has faith in you, what are you to do?
The answer is simple. When you are ever in the slightest of pickles, deep inside the bellows of holy-smokes-I-don't-know-how-to-do-this; there are three things that can save you: Jesus, Google and Youtube!
Now, I do have some experience watching cakes being decorated. My mom does amazing artwork with cakes. That's how I knew that I wanted to use fondant. The problem was that I had no clue how to make it, how to use it or what all I can do with it....but that's some of the fun.
So, I Googled the recipe, and Youtubed the hows and Voila! We have decorated cake.
No, it wasn't that easy. I still had to mix the icing sugar with melted marshmallows the night before but that didn't take as long as I thought it would. But when I was kneading the fondant, I noticed that it kinda smelled a lot like Plasticine. That doesn't say much for what marshmallows are made of.
The cake didn't quite turn out like the masterpiece I had imagined but I'd say it was a success. As hard as I tried, I couldn't get the fondant to turn red and had to settle with a hot pink. All in all, when the day was done, the Quinceañera was happy and the guests had cake.
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