Unicorn Cake

Wow, I am not good at keeping this blog up to date. Whoops.  I'm always hanging out for other bloggers to post, but forget to do the same :)

Well, here is my latest cake.  I was asked to make a unicorn cake for Alice's 6th birthday.  This was the first cake where I have had issues with air bubbles under the fondant.  Ugh!  It was stressful!  The first one appeared after the icing had dried overnight.  And set.  But it was only a little air bubble and I sorted it out (or so I thought) using a pin and smoothing the icing down.  Then I went to work for the day.  And arrived home to a massive volcano air bubble.  Ok, so it wasn't really the size of a volcano, but it was pretty big.  I thought that I was going to have to pull off all of the purple fondant and start again, because the whole layer had set into something that resembled a hill.  The pale purple layer came in handy to cover the hole that I had to create to get rid of the air bubble!  The rest of the cake was pretty uneventful, but I won't be leaving any cakes anywhere near a window again (curtain closed or not!).

-N-