Fondants are great, fondants are fun.
Fondants are useful too.
And sometime you do want to make fun cake toppers.
I don't know, maybe you feel like painting too.
So why not combine?
The key things you will need:
–Colorless alcohol such as Gin, Vodka, Tequila, sakes
–Gel food coloring
–Fondant
–Paint brush
Okay lets start!
Dust your work surface with a mixture of corn starch and icing and roll out your fondant to your desired thickness. Make sure you don't make it too thin, or else it'll be very easily broken. ⇓⇓⇓
⇐ I tried to be cool with my gloves.
Brush off any excess corn starch/icing, makes life easier :)
You can trim the fondant to the size you need and leave it out in a counter to dry, but if you're in a hurry, or just lazy like me, just keep going.
Onward!
Take a shot of alcohol and prepare to have some fun (kidding). You'll need some sort of painting palette, but I don't have one. So I used the chocolate silicon mode. Same thing. Don't follow me.
You need alcohol because it evaporates quicker, dries faster, and the fondant won't melt. Also the fumes makes you high.
Treat it like water color, mix color gel with drops of alcohol until you get the color you want. Start by boxing in the shape of what you're going to paint, same as what you learned in art class of course. I like to slowly layer, but its up to you.
Once you got the outline done, trim the fondant. Use the trimming as a scratch pad :) All is cool. All is well.
I felt like an art kid. I really should be taking IB art.
Im great.
Once you're done, leave it out to dry. Mine took days, cause its hot-humid Thailand.
If you're planning to put this on a buttercream/mouse cake, or anything moist, please coat the bottom of the fondant with white or dark chocolate. It blocks out the moisture, preventing the water soluble fondant to melt.
I gave this another go. I think I have improved, eh?
Getting used to the new medium. ⇓⇓⇓
Thank you for reading!
