Ever since I started picking up baking again when I was pregnant with Bryan during my 3rd trimester,it has been my dream to be able to bake all his birthday cakes!
This year, I get get to fulfil that wish and dream despite my super nervousness on how the cake will turn out. As always, I'm stressing myself by going for a fondant cake! FONDANT CAKE!!!! That is BIG for me as I've never touch a fondant before and now I'm talking about making a cake with it!! AM I NUTS OR WHAT!
I love to challenge myself constantly and this is a huge challenge for me. Bryan's birthday is almost a month away and I just manged to settle my nerves to do a first test on the flavour of the cake.
I've selected Mocha Pound Cake with Coffee Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Since Bryan is only a year old, he will be having his own cupcake to enjoy while most of the adults will certainly prefer something that they're familiar with.
This cake texture is solid enough to withstand the weight of the fondant without collasping it...i hope.
After some test and trial, I got an all thumbs up for hubby and relatives so the cake is set!
Since I've more or less settle on the cake, now I have to try to cover it with Fondant. This is really something very new to me and after researching through the web, I've decided to use Petinice Fondant that I bought from Sun Lik. I pinched a little to try and was suprised that it tasted really nice and not overly sweet as I have thought.
So after a lot of kneading in the red colour that I've wanted, I slowly cover the cake. I'm really happy with the result and now I just hope that I can repeat this results for my son's actual birthday cake.
I tell you, my arms were seriously aching from the kneading of the blardy fondant! No joke! Luckily I've the good sense to knead more and I've enough left for the actual cake. I don't think I ever want to knead this much fondant with colour again!!!! ACHING ARMS!!!! OUCH.....!
