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Are you all tired of my cakes yet? Don't answer that! I promise, I'm working on a website dedicated solely to cakes and as soon as I get it up and running (which might be a few months), I'll stop bugging you with all my cake ramblings!!
In the meantime, I completed 9 cakes this weekend plus an order of cupcakes! See below...that's just 6 of the 9 (including the
iPhone cake I already told you about).
Yeah, the one that's cut into was just for us.... for fun. I'll tell you about it another post. Anyway, so here's the owl cake up close...
I made it to match this birthday party theme...
Look Whoo's One Owl and the customer actually sent me a link to
this owl cake and asked if I could make something like that with this theme in mind!
So, I made an owl using that tutorial as a guide, but I changed the outside decorations to coordinate with the party theme! This little cutie-pie owl was
chocolate cake with chocolate filling and frosting, covered in chocolate fondant.
I've never posted a recipe for chocolate fondant, so I thought I'd share today. Although I'm still not completely happy with the final texture - this is how I make it for now. It's super simple.
Chocolate Fondant
So, this is going to be sort of short and sweet, but here it is: I use my
homemade marshmallow fondant recipe with these additions: I add 1-2 ounces of good quality semi-sweet or dark chocolate (melted) to the melted marshmallows and I add 1-2 tablespoons of good quality cocoa powder to the powdered sugar. You may have to add a little more water if the mix gets too dry, but that's it!
Update: After making this a few times, I've found a few other things I should mention. First, it seems like I also have to use a little extra shortening to keep this fondant soft and pliable. Also, the chocolate fondant also crumbles/cracks
alot easier than regular fondant - the texture is just not great. It also dries out really fast and I find that I can't use it the next day - I almost always have to throw away any that I don't use pretty quickly. Lastly, I often add some extra brown and/or black gel gel coloring to get the color a deep rich, chocoalte brown. But without a doubt, it's easier to get
this recipe a good shade of brown vs. just adding brown or black coloring to regular
marshmallow fondant. That takes a ton of
brown color!!
If anybody else makes/uses chocolate fondant, I'd love to hear tips on how to improve the texture or get the color easier!
I sat that little owl on top of a 10" round
white vanilla cake with
vanilla buttercream filling... except I added
pink gel coloring to the cake to make it pink too! =) I made her name with the
Funky Letter Cutters (just like
the monkey cake) and the ribbon around the bottom was made with the
Wilton Fondant Ribbon Cutter Embosser Set. The leaves were cut with a leaf cutter from
this Wilton set.
When I got done with all that, I made her a matching smash cake. Except for the leaves it was all buttercream (easier to "smash"!!).
I hope Kinslee had a wonderful birthday and
loved her owl cake!
Be sure to check out all my other
cakes and cupcakes here!
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