My first try at homemade fondant..what went wrong?

It started out to be a dream. It was so easy to roll and felt so good. I should have known then that something was not right, lol.

Luckily for me, it was a cake for a friend, but still...it hurt just the same and she tried to pay me, but I refused. (I actually hid the money on her end table and ran out of the house and jumped in the car before she noticed, lol.)

Anyway, like I said, the cake decorated like a dream with this. I finished up and headed out the door. About 10 miles down the road, I noticed that the top tier seemed to be sliding right down into the bottom. I pushed it back up with my hands and prayed. No luck. It just kept sliding down. The fondant was literally sliding down the cake. It would never set or harden enough to hold on.

I still don't know what happened. I really would like to try the homemade fondant again, because I really hate the store-bought stuff. And it's so expensive. But I'm scared now, lol.

Has anyone ever had this experience? By the time I got there, all I could do was apologize. My friend was so gracious, tho. They loved it anyway,and thank God it tasted great! I just showed them how to keep pushing it up til they were ready to cut it, LOL!! What else could I do?!! Atleast it was somewhat pliable and let me just keep doing it all the way there.

So...any ideas? Did I not knead it enough? Was it the buttercream underneath? I really don't know what went wrong!

It was just a recipe for MMF that I found online. It worked for them, lol!

I didn't apply it to the cake frozen. Should I have? It had been frozen, but was completely thawed by the time I applied the fondant.

Thanks for the link. I'm gonna check that out now. I know I won't use the old one I have, lol!

I mean that all the fondant just headed south! It didn't even tear, it just all started sliding down the sides of the cake. I had a fondant rope around the base of the top tier and it was ALL just going down, lol. I did have the bottom tier supported properly. The cakes themselves were fine, just that darn fondant.

I was trying not to give the top time to stretch. It started sliding down the sides and I kept trying to push it up.

I'm sorry, I don't know how else to explain it. I covered the cake in fondant, and it all started sliding down. Maybe I didn't roll it thin enough? It seemed right to me, it wasn't my first fondant cake, just first time with homemade MMF.

I bookmarked the above link for the MMF and I will definitely try it again. I guess I'll do it on a practice cake first, tho, lol!

I used the crusting buttercream as well, so I just really don't know what I did wrong.

Ah, well...live and learn.

I have looked and looked, and for some reason I do not have a picture. I'm thinking I needed batteries that day and figured I'd get pics from my friend, but I never did. I'll see if she took any and try to post one later.

Yes, it was room temp. Maybe that's what went wrong, I probably should have let it chill?

Anyway, I found a pic! It was just in the wrong place.

It was the style of cake that she wanted, as per a pic that she sent...although I thought it was kind of awkward. I did fondant each tier separately, too.



I really don't like this cake...for so many reasons...