Fondant....cont

So as I perused the aisles of Target I saw in the Easy Bake Aisle (no joke I think the first time I've ever been down this aisle too!) and I see this interesting new little girl baking...thing. It's called Girl Gourmet and whose face is stamped on the nice large box that costs a pretty penny?! CHEF DUFF! This man is becoming an everyday Chef Gusteau or Martha Stewart, if it has to do with fancy baking, he's there. ANYWAY! I see a refill cake and fondant box from Girl Gourmet. Total the refill cost $5 to play around with small amounts of fondant. Well naturally I of course has to try this out I mean even if I mess up horribly, it'll have cost me $5.

Well! I definitely changed a few things up since I didn't have the entire system that Mr. Chef Duff was selling. Instead of the instant cake that was in the box I made brownies; a nice dense but fluffy goodness that can handle fondant. I make a cute little heart brownie cake with more coconut frosting, it looks SO good! Then I start playing around with the fondant. And P.S. adding a "small spoonful" of water is not a valid measurement, especially for fondant. After adding too much water and then adding tons more powdered sugar to the red fondant mixture I finally have something to work with. Next hitch? The brownie cake that was small to begin with turns out to be more cake than I had fondant to cover it.

Needless to say I learned a couple things:

1. Fondant is indeed just like working with play dough
2. Just because I know how to work with play dough/fondant does not mean I know how to make it pretty when I try something difficult
3. Brownies covered in coconut frosting taste AMAZING!!

So my first attempt with fondant? I think it was a success in understanding how to handle it, but complete failure in the prettiness area. Therefore? I will not be posting pictures of the cake, more than anything I just don't want it some how finding its way to cake wrecks because it was just a simple test that I think I would get a C on really. Nothing amazing but the concept was grasped.