Ho Do You Get Fondant Smooth On The Edges
Decorating By fromkimskitchen Updated 25 Mar 2006 , 6:57pm by flayvurdfun
im am knee deep in my first wedding cake, whice happens to be my first attempt at fondant. i just got it on the top tier...and there are little wrinkles on the bottom edges...and i can't seem to get them out.
You have to slowly smooth it down all around the cake starting at the top and going around...when you get close to the bottom, you pull the fondant out with one hand while you smooth it down with the other hand. You have to stretch it a bit at the end so that you can smooth all the creases out and then the excess hangs off and you cut it off.
Good luck!
Just keep rubbing it with your hands (warm) and you can use the tool to smooth it around I always leave about 1cm all around the bottom of the cake and sort of push it in so I make sure it is reall flat and smooth I love fondant and use it always but it requires fairly quick moving and warmth good luck.
im am knee deep in my first wedding cake, whice happens to be my first attempt at fondant..
Definately not the time to be attempting to work with fondant.
Once you place the fondant on top of the cake lift the bottom egde of your fondant with one hand. With the other hand, cup your hand slightly and with the egge of you palm gently use it to smooth the fondant down on to your cake. Rotate the cake and continue all the way around the cake. If you have a few little wrinkles you can gently lift the egde and smooth it over. but be careful not to tear the fondant.
For square cakes or cakes with angles it's slightly different. Work with the corner/angles first make sure you attach them first. Then work with the flat surfaces.
Were you able to get the fondant on the cake??? Next time you may want to do a practice cake before attempting a new technique on a wedding cake.. It will save you a lot of stress!! 
I hope everything turned out ok!! Did everything turn out ok for you? I hope it worked out. Post a pic of your creation.
I would be so proud to have a cake like that. I mean both to be able to do that and to have it at my wedding. If a cake is new to me I usually bake a 6" cake just to see how everything is going to work or even a tiered dummy, Then I make notes on everything that I bake to refer back to.
Well, your cake turned out perfect. I think some of the comments posted were a little harsh or maybe even rude. Keep up the great work and again awesome job!!!!!!! I have the same problem with my fondant
Ha, I bet you wouldn't think the comments were so harsh or rude if you were the bride and you found out (had you not known already) that your dream wedding cake was being done by someone who had neither used fondant nor made a wedding cake before! 
I'm glad it worked out okay.
Glad to see that things worked out for you in the end.
Well, your cake turned out perfect. I think some of the comments posted were a little harsh or maybe even rude. Keep up the great work and again awesome job!!!!!!! I have the same problem with my fondant
Ha, I bet you wouldn't think the comments were so harsh or rude if you were the bride and you found out (had you not known already) that your dream wedding cake was being done by someone who had neither used fondant nor made a wedding cake before!
I'm glad it worked out okay.
Let me see if I can straddle this bridge.
Cakepro:
We all have to start some where and make or first wedding cake for some one.
Missyjo30:
You are certainly entitled to your opinion that some of the comments were a bit harsh but the fact remains. Attempting to use fondant on someone's wedding cake for the first time without having even make a practice cake is a bit irresponsible for lack of a better word.
How would you feel if you were a bride that ordered a fondant covered cake and when your cake arrived it was not as nice looking as you expected? Would you be satisfied with that? I personally would be very upset if I ended up with a cake that looked nothing like what I was promised especially if I found out that the decorator had never used fondant before but not only that never took the initiative to even make a practice cake before embarking on making the full scale wedding cake. Remember the bride will have pics of her wedding day - cake included - to remember what's suppose to be her special day.
Kind of like Boeing building a full scale commercial airliner without testing it don't you think?
So yes if you thought my comment was a bit harsh. I will stand by what I said. It's only my opinion.
Your cake is great!
I made my FIRST wedding/anniversary cake without ever have done one, used techniques I hadn't done before and didnt do a practise cake either.(couldn't afford to).
I have never been fortunate enough to have taken lessons. (Its in the photo album, the tiered red/white one....comments welcome)
I must say.....it represents everything I have learned here on CC.
Thanks so much Guys!!
PS.....Its not easy,
but its not rocket science either
LOL!
I'm locking this thread while it's on a good note. We don't need any hurt feelings..
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