My first fondant cake

My little Adam celebrated his 5th birthday this month. He had preschool and soccer practice on his birthday so we celebrated several different time to get all the partying in. Here he is after preschool.

We hurried and opened presents before soccer practice and then went to dinner after practice.

On Saturday, he chose to go to the Legacy Center in Lehi and go swimming. He is a good little swimmer and doesn't seem to mind that he has to wear ear plugs. Matthew, however, saw the bucket of water drop before we got in the water and wanted nothing to do with swimming after that. We finally coaxed in him over in the lazy river but he would not go anywhere near the playground and bucket area.

Sunday we invited Grandma and Grandpa to come eat cake and ice cream with us. Adam requested a Batman cake and I thought it might be time to try out fondant icing. I've wanted to for a while but the birthday cake requests haven't exactly been fondant trying ideas (angry birds in fondant? I don't think so.) I'd tried marshmallow fondant before but failed miserable at it. It wasn't even pliable. So after much research I found a recipe, bought edible gylercin which is apparently a must have in fondant and we started out. After combining ingredients, you have to knead more powered sugar in and it becomes in wonderful elastic texture.

Then I added color and started rolling it out.

Then I laid the fondant over the cake.

Then I colored and rolled out some black fondant and David cut out the bat.

Our final product.

I kept the design simple because I wasn't sure I couldn't actually do it. But I thought it turned out awesome. The fondant is really fun to work with and looks so smooth and pretty. I was so unsure if I would be able to do it, I had bought vanilla frosting for back up. One thing we did learn is that even homemade fondant does not taste good even with almond flavoring in it. Next time I will frost a crumb frosting layer so that we can peel the fondant off and still have a little bit of frosting with the cake. Adam loved the cake and so everyone was happy!