Does anybody have any tips or suggestions on working with Fondant? I've tried it so many times and always end up taking it off the cake and frosting w/Buttercream. I've made my own (marshmallow) and tried the store bought wilton. It's so hard to pick up and put on the cake. Even when I roll it over a rolling pin. It always wrinkles so bad. I bought a fondant smoother. I smooth and smooth and the wrinkles never come out. I plan on taking a Wilton class at our local Michaels. But I have a baby shower this weekend and am thinking of trying one more time.

i scoop it up with my arms.. now if you roll it out and flip it over.. it will have creases.. if you scoop it onto your forearms and make sure you set it onto your cake it should be okay.. i always make sure my cakes are very cold, almost frozen.. it helps to work with the fondant and it wont leave a lot of finger prints when working with it.. i use the smoother and my fondant is always much longer than my cake.. i use kitchen sheers to cut as i go.. dont like the pizza cutter.. hope this helps..

Wendy Kromer taught us NOT to use a rolling pin, but to actually pick it up in your forearms and place it on the cake. (which is how I've always done it before anyway). Then you smooth out the very top of the cake, and keep smoothing, starting at the top of the cake moving down, which helps with all those crazy little ripples that gather at the bottom.

However, you might benefit from taking a fondant class if you are really interested. Sometimes, there is nothing like a teacher being there to show you how.

here is a tutorial on how to cover and smooth a cake with fondant/sugar paste: http://www.pastrywiz.com/wedding/wedding19.htm. There is a lot of other stuff too.

I spread a little bit of crisco (instead of powder sugar/cornstrach) on my mat before rolling out the fondant. After the fondant is rolled out I pick up the fondant and mat and lay it over the cake, and center it. Once it is center I start on one side and peal the mat back.

I make it from scratch. If you find a good recipe, it's easier to use. A lot of the big name cake decorators have recipes. It doesn't take that much longer to do than marshmallow, and tastes a lot better.

niki97062

Would you be willing to share your recipe, I have thought of trying to make homemade fondant, but would like to try a recipe that others have made and liked to work with.

Wilma