A few years ago I helped my mother design a wedding cake for a cousin.   I had never made a cake…ever.  My mother on the other hand had made quite a few.  My sisters, brother, and I have enjoyed homemade birthday cakes, graduation cakes, baby shower cakes, and even wedding cakes…thanks to my mom.  So baking a wedding cake for my cousin was not as much of a challenge to her….until I showed her my design for the cake.  See my main talent growing up was that I was artistic.  I find it easy to be able to look at something and draw it, paint it, or even mold it out of clay.  I really like clay….so my cake design which included fondant and fondant pearls seemed just perfect for my contribution to the cake.

For the cake we envisioned something beautiful yet timelessly classic. And what described that better than pearls! The challenge was finding edible pearls.  I definitely did not want to use plastic fake pearls or dragees. And since we were also cutting the cake we wanted to be able to cut it quickly without having to remove anything. Hence my idea and first attempt at making soft edible pearls. I spent quite a bit of time researching and practicing to get my pearls as close to the real thing as possible.  Well one cake led to another…and another…and another…

Since then I have decided to focus more on fondant and gumpaste items.

I hope you have enjoyed browsing the site. Stop back again and check out the other fondant items that I'll be adding!

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