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| Start with Vanilla Cake filled with Raspberry covered in Royal Icing |
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| Make Marshmellow Fondant Balls and Flowers- Prepare the Glaze |
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| Marshmellow Fondant Balls |
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| Fuzzy Picture of Marshmellow Fondant Flowers |
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| Marshmellow Fondant Balls after Glaze |
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| Completed Cake |
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| Completed Cake |
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| Completed Cake |
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| I REALLY LOVE how the Catepillars turned out. |
Since I had never worked with marshmellow fondant or royal icing before, this cake was a stressful experience. Marshmellow fondant tastes like stale marshmellows and is really sticky to make. When looking at the marshmellow balls prior to the glaze, you will notice they are covered in powdered sugar. This was the only way to keep them from sticking to EVERYTHING!
Also, because this was a new experience for me, the side of the cake cracked. I have learned tricks NOW to make it so that doesn't happen anymore but at this point in time, I made the fondant flowers and layered them outside the cake to cover the crack. The end result was that you had to PEEL AWAY layers of fondant to even get to the cake...FAIL.
The words were made of candy fish, dinasours, cows, ducks, dolphins and any other neon candy I could find. The raduate requested the cake to be neon colors with white and black. For the record, I do NOT recommend using black on any cake. It turns your teeth black, stains clothes and can bleed into the other colors if you are not very careful.
What I really LOVED about this cake: It is cute and whimsical. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my catepillars and would suffer the whole thing again just to make catepillars.
