Fondant

For those Food Network addicts out there you should all know about fondant which is a sugar dough used to cover cakes (usually used in profesional cakery businesses) and I made fondant from scratch and used it!

Can you believe it! I have this cake decorating book and I used the recipe for fondant and made a cake and covered it. It makes all the difference I'm telling you. Having a smooth satin finish is unbelievably beautiful and piping looks ten times better on it too!

I have to admit I am no Duff Goldman or Sarah Finnerman but I have to say I did pretty well for me not having any training in the art of cake decorating. I also did brush embroidery which is when you make an outline and then use a brush dipped in egg whites and brush the outline inward creating the look of a flower or leaf or yeah that is really all I think you can make that looks really well with brush embroidery.

So, I am on my way to becoming a cake decorator and open my own cakery/bakery. I have just started to think of names. Non of them I have truly liked but some a sounding pretty catchy. I'll come up with a name that is perfect for me and my pastry business.

Madame De Bake-a-lot

Everybody knows that I am quite good at baking and decorating and the thing is that I haven't really baked in a while and I am extremely upset with myself because my true passion in life is decorating cakes and I haven't done that in a while so thus a part of me is diminshing.

Yeah, yeah so I sound like a weird spirital freak. But hell maybe I do but here is the fact that I need to bake and decorate a cake or so help me God life we a boring heap un frosted lazy cakes. And I will probably not be the cause but part of the cause so don't blame me!

I really sound completely deluded. Oh well. Bu just wanted to say that my life is still on track with the whole pastry chef stuff.