Cake Decoration Tips - How to cover cake sides with fondant
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Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we're going to be covering our cake. I'm going to
cover each panel of the cake separately, so we'll need four, we're going to start with
four six by four and a half inch panels for this cake. So what you'll do is you'll just
measure your cakes side, and then you're going to cut it out of the fondant. So we'll roll
this, you'll want to put plenty of the confectioners sugar so that it won't stick there. And we'll
roll out the fondant
to approximately four inches or six inches wide, and then we'll cut our panel pieces.
Should be about an eight of an inch thick when you're rolling out. And if you start
by giving yourself a strait edge like that, and right now this is about six inches, so
I think I'll do the four and a half inches here. So I'm going to cut a strait edge a
strait bottom. I'll measure the four and a half inches. We'll move that out of the way.
And I'll measure six inches here,
and cut that. I'm just going to put this aside for a minute while I work on this piece.
And then very carefully you want to pick up that panel and place it on the cake like this.
This is where this tool comes in handy. I use it to press and smooth the fondant. You
want to come right out to the edge. Now the fondant is soft and pliable so you can make
adjustments to it. You can pull it and stretch it. And then make your next panel.
