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How to make a Fondant Cake?

I love to bake and I am looking to make my first fondant cake. I have seen kits but I would rather do it from scratch. Can anyone get me a recipe and instructions on how to make a Fondant cake starting from step 1 i.e. bake the cake, etc. Please help!!
I understand I am not making a “fondant” cake – I know it is icing. What I meant was how do a make a cake with fondant icing from start to finish. Such as someone has stated to use pound cake. I was just curious to see if someone was able to give step by step directions from cake to icing. I know you have to ice the cake with a different icing before placing the fondant on top and I am not sure what all of that is.

Day one: Shop for ingredients and make your fondant. Let the fondant rest overnight.

Day two: bake a sturdy cake, either from scratch or use a Cake Mix extender recipe so that your cake is slightly more dense than a cake mix cake, so that it won’t sag under the weight of the fondant. You can look up “White Almond Sour Cream Cake Recipe” for one of the most popular cake mix extender recipes, which also tastes great. You can change the flavors you add to it and the flavor of mix you use, to suit your tastes. Let the cake cool. Cut off the domed part on the top so you have a nice flat cake. Make buttercream icing and use some as a filling, then put the other layer on top. Wrap the cake in plastic wrap and let it sit overnight, so that it can settle. That’s an important step because there are gases that need to escape from the cake that can create bulges under your fondant. Some people put something heavy but not too heavy on top of the cake, for example a hardcover book or a square of tile, to press it down a little bit so that if the filling will want to squish out under the weight of the fondant, you’ll be able to correct it before adding the fondant.

Day three: lightly ice the cake in buttercream frosting. Roll your fondant out and cover the cake, being sure to open out any folds that form, and smoothing the cake with your hands or a fondant smoother. When the cake is as smooth as you want it to be, trim the excess fondant off with kitchen shears or a pizza wheel. Add decorations as desired…you can make a glue for fondant by dissolving a small piece of fondant in water, or mixing alcohol or water with meringue powder or Tylose. If the bottom edge of your cake doesn’t look too pretty, don’t panic, because most don’t. Just add a ball border or make a ribbon out of fondant and use that to disguise the bottom edge.

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Today, more candle makers have used soy wax in making candles because of a number of reasons. Because of that, soy candle making kits have been created and offered here and there such an in the internet. With the distinctiveness and expediency of the soy and the soy candle, some people wonder why this product was not learned about earlier.

Perhaps, no one has thought of soybean as the top ingredient for candles during the earlier days. Because of that, nobody considered to acquire a collection of candle-making kits for candle making. But now, the soybean had been widely used for feeding animal. It is also the main ingredient in making the soy sauce condiment. Since then, it has turned out as a profitable industry.

Soybeans and soybean products are very popular in the manufacturing industry today. It is manufactured as bio fuel, a substitute for the crude oil. It is also used in making resin, oil, soap, cosmetics inks, clothing and paints. Increasingly, this legume made soy candle into flourishing industry today. To make candles, indispensable soy candle-making kits certainly are very important for makers of candles.

The soybean wax was discovered as a main ingredient in soy candle making in the 1990′s. Soybeans are abundant and cost-effective. Along the process, soybean oil is separated from the soybean solids in a process called as solvent extraction. In a sixty pound soybean, ten pounds of oil is created. Both the remaining solids and the oil are still of use. The process of hydrogenation is also required.

Combining the soybean and the candle-making kits, crafting candles can now be very easy and simple thus, you can really start anytime you want as long as you have all the needed materials with you. In hydrogenation, the oil boosts the width. The oil then responds to the hydrogen along with the presence of nickel catalyst. This process forms the saturated fats containing trans-fats.

The wax formed from hydrogenation is good for candles in container. With pillar candles, hard wax and other forms of waxes are mixed. Soy candle making kits can vary with the design and content of the candle that you wish to create. It is essential to know whether soybean wax is modified or pure prior to its use in the candle making. To use soy candle making kits efficiently, determine the substance and design first.

Kristin Reda is a candle and soap making expert.
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When making a mini tiered cake how do I stack them?

If I made a cake with the pans in this article, can I just stack them they way they come out of the oven (after leveling the tops)? Or am I supposed to support them somehow?

It’s not that big a cake, so it could stand on it’s own. Otherwise do what they do on Ace of Cakes – stick a wooden dowel down the middle of all three layers to keep them from sliding.

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