My First Fondant Cake

So I love watching those cake shows (Cupcake Wars, Ace of Cakes, DC Cupcakes.. I DON'T like Cake Boss) the new rage in cake decorating in fondant.  I decided to give it a shot.  I picked up a box of ready made fondant at Michael's and went to town.  First let me say, it's not easy to work with. My kitchen was a disaster, it looked like cornstarch and powder sugar got in on and had a baby on my counter (and some on the floor).  So back to the ready-made fondant. This stuff dries FAST. So if you plan on making tons of shapes and using different colors, good luck.  I also wanted to use some colors and didn't realize you're supposed to use ICING coloring NOT food coloring. Oops. It made a sticky mess.  Thankfully I found some icing coloring, but it takes a lot of that stuff if you want to make a dark color (pastels are way easier).

So I made 2 - 8'' rounds of yellow cake with homemade buttercream frosting.

So I wasn't a fan of the ready-made fondant. It tasted like sweet Playdoh, but hubby seemed to like it.  I wasn't too crazy about how hard it was to work with.  I didn't realize how time consuming this was until I was done and it was something like 6 hours later.  All in all I was really proud of my 1st fondant cake and now I'm exciting about making more!