Buttercream Fondant Recipe

The decoration of this cake was inspired by one of the cakes on the Mad Hatter's table in the new Alice in Wonderland movie.
BUTTERCREAM FONDANT RECIPE
Ingredients
* 1 cup light corn syrup
* 1 cup shortening
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
* 2 pounds confectioners' sugar
Directions
1. In a large bowl, stir together the shortening and corn syrup. Mix in the salt and vanilla flavoring, then gradually mix in the confectioners' sugar until it is a stiff dough. If you are using a stand mixer, use the dough hook attachment. Otherwise, knead by hand. If the dough is sticky, knead in more confectioners' sugar until it is smooth. Store in an airtight container at room temperature or in the refrigerator.
2. To use, roll out on a clean surface that has been dusted with confectioners' sugar until it is 1/8 inch thick or thinner if you can. Drape over frosted and chilled cakes and smooth the sides down, or cut into strips to make bows and other decorations.

Butter Cream Transfer

This is our first attempt at butter cream transfer.

My daughter wanted to make a cake for the birthday of one of her youth group leaders. We decided it would be fun to try out the butter cream transfer method on this cake.

We started by choosing the image we wanted on our cake. We chose the symbol for Mosaic Church. It is a crown of thorns in case you were wondering. :)

To have the image turn out right we needed to reverse the image. We did this by tracing the image on the other side of the page.

We chose the colors for our image and labeled the image to avoid confusion. After labeling we slipped the image into a plastic sleeve.

We then traced the image using a #2 tip and butter cream we had tinted black.

We filled in the first color using a #5 tip and butter cream tinted blue. We then added the second color was piped in using a #5 tip and butter cream tinted grey.

Here is the completed reverse image.

We traced the outer edge of the image and then filled in the area with butter cream using the same color we had on our cake. We piped using a #10 tip and then smoothed it with a small offset cake decorator spatula.

This is what the image looks like from underneath. Turned out nicely! :) At this point the transfer goes into the freezer for 45 minutes to an hour.

We flip our frozen image on to the cake and smoothed it into the cake. We carefully peeled the plastic off of our transfer.

My daughter then added the lettering. :)

Lovely results for our first attempt at butter cream transfer. Can't wait to use this technique again. It was fun!


Here's the video we watched to learn how to do this. :)
Butter Cream Transfer Technique

Cake Channel Link

I was looking for some new ideas and inspiration and found this site. There are some excellent photographs of all kinds of cakes. Follow the link to see them for yourself. Enjoy!

WEDDING CAKE PHOTOS AT CAKE CHANNEL

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Morningstar Cakes YouTube Channel

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I am working on setting up and launching our YouTube channel! It's all set up but I don't currently have content on it. I plan on putting some videos up in the next week or so. I will post a memo to this blog when we begin uploading videos.

I have gone ahead and favorited some videos you might find interesting. Go take a look at the channel and check them out.

If there is something in particular that you would like to learn how to do please let me know. I will try to incorporate your ideas and requests into the tutorials.  I'm looking forward to sharing what I'm learning with you.