Make Your Birthday Cake Special with Fondant Icing Decorations

Are you responsible for the cake for an important birthday? You can make your birthday cake special with fondant icing decorations.

Fondant icing allows you to create very unique and exciting decorations, including flowers, bows, and other intricate designs. Fondant icing can be purchased in many grocery stores and cake decorating shops, or you can choose to make your own.

What makes fondant icing so special is the ability to roll it out, similar to pie dough. You can then lay it smoothly on the cake to make a flawless, smooth frosting. You can also cut strips, shapes, and patterns out of your rolled fondant icing, and then easily mold them into designs. If you are wanting to create a design which maintains its shape, you can allow the fondant icing to dry and harden. This allows you to make beautiful flowers, and ribbons which add height and drama to your cake decorating. Cutting letters, numbers, or other designs out of your rolled fondant icing is another common method used by cake decorators.

It is very easy to add color when making fondant icing decorations. You can choose from several different options. You can purchase pre-colored fondant icing, but unless you are planning to decorate many cakes this is probably not your best choice. You can color the white fondant icing you have purchased by simply kneading in food coloring. Gel colors most commonly will give you the best results. Your final option is to spray on your color after you have created your fondant icing decorations. One word of caution, if you are creating fondant icing sculptures, pieces which are dried, you must use caution. Moisture from the spray could cause them to sag, or collapse.

Fondant icing is one of the favorite choices of wedding cake specialists. It allows them to bake the cake several days ahead of time, seal it within the fondant icing, and then work on their creations. This is good news for your birthday project, too. You can take extra time to make it extra special. Fondant icing gives you a high level of flexibility and control in your cake decorating creations.

Your fondant icing decorations do not need to stand alone. Many top decorators combine different icings on top of their fondant decorated cakes to get additional textures, and for ease in writing messages, or creating small decorative touches.

With an upcoming big birthday party, this is the perfect time to learn to use fondant icing decorations. You will enjoy the additional control, smoothness, and flaw free appearance of your cake. Your cake will be the hit of the party.