Show me the dough!

     We have officially made it to our second posting! The past couple of days have been a real adventure for me in the kitchen. As those who know me already know, my heart belongs to baking cakes and cookies. It is just fascinating how some sugar, eggs, flour, and a few other little ingredients can turn into a beautiful, not to mention tasty, piece of art. For about a year now, I have been putting off and putting off one of the most important and labor-intensive parts of cake decorating: FONDANT! This is basically a layer of stiff icing that provides a smooth surface on the cake. It is very finicky! I finally broke down and bought a pound of it, I didn't want to make it the first time I used it. To test this technique out, I decided to bake an MTSU colors cake(Royal Blue and White). I started by baking up a simple white cake in 3 layers and cooling them. I then prepared my board that it would sit on by covering it with shiny side-up aluminum foil. Then I added a dab of icing in the center of the board to keep cake in place. After, I stacked all the layers(biggest to smallest) with icing between each. Once stacked, you must crumb coat the cake, which is essentially thinly icing the cake to cover all imperfections and to hold the fondant. For the fondant, you roll it out on a Confectioner's Sugar cover surface, it prevents sticking, to about 1/4-1/5 inch. Then wrap the fondant around rolling pin and place on cake. Smooth the fondant across cake and cut excess with pizza wheel! Et voila! You have a perfectly covered and smooth cake! Here is mine that I made for my co-workers:

To add polka dots, cut out rounds and paste on with icing.

With our leftover egg yolks, because you can't add the yolks to white cake or it won't be white, we made PASTA! It was icky and hard to make! It took about an hour to make the dough, which we haven't yet cut into actual pasta. Here is a photo of the dough in process and the final product:

I also baked some Oatmeal Chocolate Chip and Walnut cookies! I made four dozen and took them to school today, along with the cake. Not a crumb was left lol!

I have now been hired to make a boob cake, which I am working on now... Check back on Saturday for pics and my next adventure! Have a great night and tomorrow!