All during college, I made birthday cakes for friends. But they were nothing fancy…just your typical, two-layer round cakes. That all changed when my dear friend “Amytons” invited me to her 80s-themed birthday party. I offered to bring a cake as my gift to her. I then set to work determining what kind of cake would best encapsulate history’s quirkiest decade.
After sketching out some ideas and adapting the tiering techniques I’d learned from my mom, I created a three-layer dark chocolate square cake unlike any other:
Needless to say, the cake was a hit.
It was three layers of devil’s food cake with dark chocolate buttercream icing and tinted fondant patches.
I personally don’t like using fondant because I like my cake creations to be 100% delicious. It is nice to work with because you can use it just like you would modeling clay. However, it tastes about as good as modeling clay, too, and I don’t dig that. However, in the case of the Rubik’s Cube cake (and a few other rare exceptions since then), I have resorted to using fondant when nothing else would do.
I didn’t realize this was your first! Quite an undertaking!!
That’s awesome!
you should try making marshmallow fondant. its cheap, easy, wonderful to work with and tastes good! 1cup mini marshmallows, 1tbsp water and micro for about 35sec. then mix/knead in powdered sugar. start w/ 1 1/2 cups but you will probably need more. multiply the recipe for the amount you will need-its soooo easy!