Frosting Recipes

Deep down, I sometimes get a little irritated with other people’s perfect birthday cake decorations.  But cake decorating doesn’t have to be all fondant and roses.  We loved this cake from Melbourne, Australia that is designed to look like a discarded pizza box with an ashtray of cigarette butts and a remote control.   Everything including the chewed pizza crusts are actually made with fondant!

While the pizza box cake stood out among other more traditionally decorated cakes, we thought it was a creative, inspired contribution that pushes the boundaries of cake decoration.

Show-stealing pizza cake a matter of taste.

The Frosted Cake’n Cookie is the site of a highly-skilled self-taught cake decorator in Indiana.   Those hot Midwest summers don’t really lend themselves to detailed fondant work.  But she’s created these excellent fondant-adorned Gromit cupcakes for her daughter’s 9th birthday party.

If you’re not yet a fan of the fondant, it’s a pliable confection often used in cake decorating as well as candies.  Its smoothness and doughiness makes it a beautiful way to ornament cakes beyond your wildest dreams.

This site gives fantastic step-by-step fondant instruction with awesome photos.  You’ll see that the Gromit design and fondant assembly is pretty simple and easy to follow.

thefrostedcakencookie: Tuesday Toppers: Gromit Cupcake.