Time to Party!

It's done!

Here's a picture of the hack job I did on the inside of the cake...


Then I had to roll out the fondant into a 19" square...lots of rolling! I enlisted Mark's help to lift it onto the cake. No rips, tears, misplacements. YAY!!!! Shannon wondered if the other girls were scared when their mom's put the dress on.


We gave Barbie a top of the same fondant and stuffed her down. A few simple decorations and...


All in all, a fun project, and I don't think any more difficult than using icing. No messy, greasy bags and finicky tips to clean out. But if I had wanted different colours I don't know how I would have achieved that. They say you can knead colour into the fondant by hand, but I think it would take forever to get it as even as the mixer was able to do, not to mention getting the colour on your hands! Maybe next time!

I should also mention that I made Marshmallow fondant. Apparently 'normal' fondant tastes terrible. This recipe calls for Marshmallows, water and icing sugar....Nummy!

I'm not sure we'll end up with beautiful pieces of cake on our plates though...but then again Shannon wants to keep her Barbie cake "forever and ever and ever" so maybe we won't have to worry about that!

AND...while I was working on this project, Mark had one of his own; building a new pantry/storage unit in the laundry room...My husband ROCKS!