Poured fondant is a smooth and opaque icing, that you can use on cakes, cupcakes and fondant fancies. The fondant I use is a ready-made one from Almond Art. You can also get a powdered one from Squires Kitchen.

I have had luck making poured fondant from rolled fondant by heating it carefully in the mikroway oven and thin it down with boiled water. I flavour mine with lemon juice, but you could use any kind of flavourings. You can ofcourse also try and make it yourself. Try Google “poured fondant recipes” and you will find lots of different recipes. You should go for one made of icing sugar, water and glucose syrup. If you know where to buy it in the US or know a good recipes for it I would be very happy if you will let me know.

If you are looking for any good cake books using poured fondant. I can highly recomend: Pretty Party Cakes by Peggy Porchen. She is the star of making beautiful cupcakes and fondant fancies with poured fondant.

Happy Caking

Louise

I have recived a lot of questions regarding the use of poured fondant icing on cupcakes. So in this tutorial I will try to show you how to cover cupcakes with poured fondant.

This is what I use:
White fondant
Abricot jam
Hot boiled water
Cupcakes (firm cupcakes works best)
Pastry brush
Tea spoon
Heatproff bowls
Optional: Flavourings and food colors.

Step 1:
Brush the cupcakes with a thin coat of hot abricot jam. Let it dry.

Step 2:
Place the fondant in a heatproff bowl and heat it gently in the microway oven for approx 1 min. It needs to be warm but dont let it boil. Give it a stir to get it smooth. It is important that you get the right consistency. If it gets too thick you will have difficulty to dip the cupcake properly and if it is too thin it will look transparent on the cupcake. Give it a few tries and you will find the right consistency. You can use boiled water, a tsp at a time, to thin it down. If it gets too cold gently reheat it in the microway oven a few sec.

Step 3:
Now take the cupcake and dip it upside down in the hot fondant. Carefully shake the excess fondant off. I like to dip my cupcakes so the fondant sticks to the paper cases.

Step 4:
Set the cupcakes aside and let them dry. If you like you can give them a second coat when the first one is dry.

Step 5:
Attach your choosen decoration on the cupcakes with dots of royal icing.

Note: Store the cupcakes in cake boxes. NOT in the refrigerator because that will dissolve the poured fondant. Also air thight containers can make the fondant melting.

Happy Caking

Louise

Video tutorial, how to make a ribbon rose. As you can see CakeJournal is now on youtube. I am just testing this so please abstract for the poor picture and sound quality I would though really love your feedback. Is this something you would like to see more of?

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Louise

I had another go to make a Whimsical cake.

It was quite fun because it was not cupcakes I had in mind to start with. But it came to me when the “lids” came on the two cakes. It just looked like strawberry and chocolate buttercreme. So I thought those cake has got to be transformed into “Whimsical cupcakes” instead.

So I made a cherry of modelling paste, glazed it to get it shiny and made some sugar sprinkles with my sugar gun. The two cupcake cakes is 6″ and 4″ so it is a very little charming cake creation.

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Louise

I have through a scandinavian cake forum meet many liked-minded friends with whom I share my passion for cakes and cake decorations with. We started two years back a group called “The cake nerds” on the forum. We then meet, eat cake, make some sugarcrafting and talk our ears off. Yesterday it was my turn to have the house invaded with cake nerds lol! Well we was only five, but we sounded like ten. Fortunately I had a small cake spare in the freezer that only needed to be decorated. I also made some sugar flower cupcakes to go along with the cake we was going to eat. Sometimes we have decorations to make for upcomming cake events and then it is good to have others opinion on the things you are doing. I am going to make a christning cake for someone in my familly in August. So I talk about the cake design with my friends and I tried modelling a baby for the cake (I am not finished with it yet;)) We had a great time together and I am looking forward to meet my friends again.

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Louise

This friday I made two cakes for a summer party at my childrens kindergarden. I decided to make one for the boys and one for the girls. Do I need to say that all the kids was excited when they saw the cakes?
I have used royal icing and rolled fondant/sugar paste for the decorations.

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Louise

I have recieved these pictures from Melissa of her first ever 3D cake. She made it for her son Aiden’s 2nd birthday. For decoration Melissa used white frosting, colored gel paste, M&M’s and girl scout cookies for wheels.
I think it turn out great and I think that you have come up with some creative ideas for cake decorations. Keep it up:)
I would love to get more pictures and stories from all of you so that I can post others creations aswell as my own.

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Louise

I bought these sweet cake tins a couple of months ago, and since then I have wanted to convert the pattern into a cake design.

So this weekend I had the time to do it. I made a batch of vanilla cupcakes and made the small sugar flowers to look as close as the flowers on the tins but still with my own touch.

They are topped with poured fondant icing as found in Peggy Porschens book Pretty Party Cakes I have painted the royal icing borders with edible gold lustre dust. I think they turned out very well and Shabby Chic like.

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Louise

This glue is perfect for all kinds of sugarwork and it is very quick to make. Here you can see how to make Tylo glue:

This is what you will need:
1 tsp. of Tylo powder (CMC)
approx. 30 tsp. of boiled cooled water
1 plastic container with lid

Mix water and powder in the container. Close with the lid and shake well. Leave overnight so the Tylo will dissovle into a clear thick gel. It should be keept in the refrigerator and away from direct sunlight. Storage life approx. 1 month.

Note: you can add more water if it gets to thick.

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Louise

I love sugar bows on cakes. I think it gives the cake a very feminine look and it is a necessity on beautiful gift cakes. So in this tutorial I will try to show you how to make a sugar bow. If you have not tried it before start by making a “medium large” sugar bow instead of a very small one. You can ad shimmer dust to your bow just by brushing shimmer on to the stripes before pleating and assembling the sugar bow.

Note: I find it best to use a mix consisting of 50% sugar paste and 50% flower paste. That way you will get a smoothe and flexible paste to work with.

This is what I use:
50/50 Sugar paste/flower paste
Rolling pin
Small spatular
Tylo glue
Artist brush
Polyesterfibre
2 sheets of kitchen roll
Cornstarch for dusting
1 Plastic bag
A pair of scissors

Step 1:
Take the plastic bag and cut up one of the sides.

Step 2:
Take some of the polyesterfibre and warp it in the kitchen roll:

Step 3:
Dust with cornstarch and roll out the paste thinly. Take the spatular and cut two long stripes and one short stripe. Place the three pieces in the plastic bag. To keep them for drying out.

Step 4:
Take one of the long stripes and make pleats in both ends. Brush the ends with tylo glue. Take the polyester roll and fold the ends together.

Step 5:
Gently press the ends. Set a side and repeat with the other long stripe.

Step 6:
Trim the ends so they have clean cuts. Brush with tylo glue and put them together.

Step 7:
Take the small stripe and make pleats. Brush the middle of the sugar bow with tylo glue.

Step 8:
Take the short stripe (maybe you need to cut it shorter) and wrap the ends around the middle of the sugar bow.

Step 9:
Now leave the sugar bow to dry. Note: If you want the sugar bow to stand up. You will do that now before it dries to much.

Step 10:
For the tails, roll out the excess paste and cut two long stripes.

Step 11:
Make pleates and cut the end. Place them on top of each other and brush with tylo glue and attache the sugar bow on top. Remove the polyester rolls when the bow is almost dry. Note: I find it best to cut out the tails just before they are applied to the cake. That way they are smoother and more flexible.

Happy Caking

Louise