My fondant creations

After creating the mouse fondant, I told my baby sis about it. She saw the mousy fondant in this blog...and was jealous coz she dun have it during her bday. So, to compensate, I did piggy fondant for her.


My elder sis say the piggy looks as if in shock haha

Then, the babiest bro of mine, whose bday was in Oct, i did this animal for him. coz i wasn't around during his bday. and, also to avoid him being jealous...haha so what animal do u think this is? some say looks like dog, some say bear...

it's actually a TIGER :P see below, got stripe. My baby sis say looks more like Garfield.

Then when I am back home and show my creations to my family, my 9 months pregnant elder sis say why dun have rabbit? well, she is born in the year of rabbit. I told her i dunno how to make the ears stand. But I try using toothpicks. So here it is. And...I use yellow to make the ear and eyes, should use pink, but i lazy to mix the colour, so just use the leftover from the tiger

Because I baked a chocolate cake, the cake will end up black and white (cake and mousy). elder sis say should have some red. so mummy suggested a rose, although a bit girly la...so i did this. looks ok ya...


this is how the final cake looks like


this is a smaller cake i made for my babiest bro. the Tiger supposed to be at the middle, but i forgot to snap the photo with the tiger :P


All my baby bros and baby sis are grown up (aged more than 20), but to me, they are still very young. Always still baby to me. Some will say the decorations that I made are for kids, but hey, to me, they are still kids :)

Mouse Marshmallow fondant

Made this mouse fondant as decorative for a birthday cake that i am going to bake later for my bro's bday.

the recipe as below:

Ingredients:

200g white mini-marshmallows
1 to 2 tablespoons water
200g pounds icing sugar
Some shortening

1. Melt marshmallows and 1 tablespoons of water in a microwave or double boiler: Put the bowl in the microwave for 30 seconds, open microwave and stir, back in microwave for 30 seconds more, open microwave and stir again, and continue doing this until melted. (or use double boil and keep stirring until melted)
2. Place 3/4 of the powdered sugar on the top of the melted marshmallow mix.
3. Grease your hands GENEROUSLY with shortening- palms, backs and in between fingers (i use disposable plastic gloves, which reduce it from sticking).
4. Then heavily grease the counter with shortening and dump the bowl of marshmallow/sugar mixture in the middle.
5. Start kneading like you would bread dough. Keep kneading, this stuff is sticky at this stage! Add the rest of the powdered sugar and knead some more.
6. Re-grease your hands and counter when the fondant is sticking. If the mix is tearing easily, it is too dry, so add water (a little at a time then knead it in).
7. You should have a stretchable texture.
8. Its best if you can let it sit, double wrapped, overnight (but you can use it right away if there are no tiny bits of dry powdered sugar). If you do see them, you will need to knead and maybe add a few more drops of water.
9. Prepare the fondant for storing by coating it with a good layer of shortening, wrap in a plastic- type wrap product and then put it in a re-sealable or Ziploc bag. Squeeze out as much air as possible.