I forgot to add the water to the marshmallows before microwaving them.is actually about 1.5 packages – I only melted 1 package. You are supposed to melt 16 oz of marshmallows with a little water, then mix it with 2 pounds of sifted powdered sugar. I almost hosed up the fondant completely.
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I found myself saying “Yeah yeah, get on with it already!” Just sayin’. She really could have edited a lot of stuff out and still made a great tutorial. However, I must warn you, it’s way too long. The one that ultimately influenced me the most was this video. There are lots of different posts and tutorials on making homemade marshmallow fondant. I finished it off with the rest of the frosting, smoothed it out really well by misting it with water and smoothing with an icing spatula.
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Back into the freezer for another couple hours. I swear I would have cried.Īfter it chilled a while, I assembled the layers with a layer of white frosting between the two, then I gave the cake a crumb coat. While this was going quite well, at one point I almost dropped a layer on the floor. I was able to make longer ovals this way. I separated the two halves and reinserted sections of the pieces I removed earlier. However, the ovals weren’t long enough to pass as a face, so I turned the cakes a quarter turn, then cut then in half. I slid the two sides together on each cake to make ovals. Next, I cut a section out of the middle of each cake layer, about 1.5″ wide and set those pieces aside. When cool, I chilled them in the freezer for an hour so that I could easily saw off the uneven tops with a serrated knife. I baked a chocolate cake in two 9″ round cake pans. Kristen wanted boxed cake and container frosting. Also, I don’t have a lot of step by step photos as I was so concentrated (and nervous) that I didn’t want to stop to stage photos. This could have really turned into a long post, so I trimmed the mishaps down a bit. This definitely did not go off without a hitch, there were several issues, even though it did all work out in the end. I had heard that store bought fondant is pretty gross tasting, and have heard some great things about homemade marshmallow fondant, so I decided to make my own. Using homemade fondant for my Spiderman Cake
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I found a great video on working with fondant here and used that to come up with my Spiderman cake. It wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be. It had been one of those “I have to tackle that one of these days” things. Kristen wanted a Spiderman face in the middle, so I could have just gone with this light up Spiderman cake topper… but instead I decided to use fondant. At first I was going to use this cake pan with a simple white frosting, pipe black frosting around it and drag a knife through it to create a spider web design. So I set out on a quest to find a fun Spiderman cake design. So who am I to question, or for that matter, to say no? Making a Spiderman Cake with Homemade Fondant I was surprised to hear that her BFF wanted a Spiderman cake, but my daughter insisted that she was indeed obsessed with all things Spiderman.
#PAC MAN CAKE HOW TO#
Learn how to make a Spiderman cake with homemade fondant and a cake mix or your favorite homemade cake recipe! Perfect for Spiderman parties!īack in the summer of 2010 my (then) 16 year old daughter asked me to make a Spiderman cake (yes, technically Spiderman should be hyphenated as Spider-man, but for the sake of my sanity I am typing it in this post as Spiderman, no hyphen.) for her best friend’s birthday.