Originally published October 9, 2010
See… I used to publish all of my cakes over at AdventuresinSavings.com. Now that I’ve started RoseBakes.com (as of January 2012) I want to transfer and update all of my posts/pictures with watermarks and info relevant here. So over the next few weeks (or months) I hope to work my way through many of my old cake posts and republish them. The only downside? My older pictures were terrible not great, but maybe you’ll forgive me!!
I only had one cake to do this week, and it was a fun one! This cake is half chocolate, half vanilla on the inside (like this one), covered in vanilla buttercream, and then covered and decorated with homemade marshmallow fondant and gum paste.
I always like be challenged do to things I haven’t done before…like drawing a horse and boots, then cutting them out! I printed coloring sheets that looked like what I wanted and just traced them on the fondant then cut them with an x-acto blade.
All of the brown fondant was homemade marshmallow fondant with chocolate added in (cocoa powder and melted chocolate chips). I basically experimented to get the color/texture I needed, but I can’t give you a solid recipe yet. I cut the daisies using this Wilton Daisies set and the letters using this Wilton Alphabet Set.
Update: I have since published a chocolate fondant recipe, but it’s still far from perfect and I never get exactly the texture I need. These days when I need brown fondant, I use Satin Ice Brown/Dark Chocolate fondant. It’s pricey, but worth it! And it tastes like brownie batter!
But in the end, I was really happy with how it turned out and learned quite a few new things!
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I love this cake! It would be perfect for my daughter's birthday. I found it by searching for horse cakes on Yahoo Images. While showing it to my husband just a bit ago, I clicked on a link and found that you live in the same town as my husband's mother! Small world! You do a beautiful job on your cakes. Too bad you are 1000 miles away!
Brenda Bayless
Alum Creek, WV
Wow – Brenda, it is a small world! I actually went to school with a guy named Jamie Bayless… is that your husband? If so, I was Rose Hawley then..he might remember me.
Thanks for visiting & God Bless!
I love this cake. My daughter would so love this. I find it lil funny that the name of company is Rose and thta is her middle name and that the name on the cake is similar to mine Adria lol.
Thanks Adria! Very neat!