I've made my MMF and colored it all the different colors I need. I was going to wait until tomorrow to cut out my shapes and then apply to the cake. The shapes will be sort of like strips with little peaks at even intervals, and then some teardrop-like shapes. My question is: Should I go ahead and do them tonight? I need them to still be flexible, as I will be wrapping them all the way around the sides of the cakes (the strip-like things). But I don't want them to be falling apart on me as I'm applying them. Will the MMF firm up a bit between now and tomorrow afternoon? As you can tell, I've had very little, and limited, experience with MMF...so any suggestions are appreciated!! THANKS!

you are going to want to wait until tomarrow to do that one. If you do it now, your MMF will harden and be like working with dried up PlayDough.

Ok..so maybe I could cut out my shapes in the early in the morning and then they'll be a little firmer say 4 or 5 hours later? Just so they're a little easier to handle. Do you think that would work?

Yeah, I think so. What I do is I let my decorations dry for about an hour or so, then I apply them to the cake. I'm the same way, I don't want to squish the decorations or change the shape of them. OH! WAIT! I live in the desert and it's really dry so the fondant dries alot quicker here. Tou might want to take that into consideration.

I'm new working with fondant too. I just discovered tonight that my Silpat Mat works so well for fondant. In the past, I"ve been working on wax paper, but it slides all over and the fondant sticks to it. My fondant didn't stick to the Silpat mat. I have a tile counter top, so it worked well and I didn't have problems with the grout line indentations. Just a suggestion. I really enjoyed it. I didn't need any cornstarch either.
Pam