Check out these beautiful holiday cakes from Southern Living

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barbara-in-va

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I LOVE the fondant snowflakes. directions say to roll out 1/2 of a 24 oz package of white fondant. I have never worked with packaged fondant before. Do I buy it at a cake decorating supply place? My girlfriend does a Hanukkah party every year and I was thinking of making a white cake and snowflakes but maybe putting blue sugar sprinkles over the cake.

In the Dec issue of Southern Living there is also a red vlevet cake with coconut frosting and piped christmas trees made with almond bark candy coating. Do you think I can get that at the cake decorating supply place also?

Great cakes in this issue: some others are Marbled Pumpkin Praline Cake and Peppermint Hot chocolate Cake and an assortment of different fillings and frostings to mix and match. Wonderful issue!!!

http://www.southernliving.com/food/holidays-occasions/white-christmas-cake-recipes-00417000080507/page9.html

 
Barb, fondant is popular enough now that you can pick it up at JoAnns, Walmart Party City.

Check in the craft aisle for cake decorating materials.
Almond bark is just "confectionary coating"....fancy phrase for non-chocolate. It doesn't have to be tempered. Just melt and use. It will harden on its own. Wilton carries their own version and you just melt in the microwave and work with it. If you use white disks and plan to tint to another color, you must use oil or gel coloring. You can't use the old-fashioned food colorings in the grocery store cake-box aisle because they are water-based.

I've worked with fondant enough now that I'm surprise that the full-size snowflakes are standing upright. Remember, fondant is usually used to cover a cake and so you must be able to cut through it. These look hard enough to free-stand without collapsing. I've seen where you add telose to stiffen fondant, but that must be done ahead of time and left to dry. I tried it for my first gingerbread house and it was a fiasco.

If it's just for decoration, make them now and let them dry out, cutting some 3/4 so you can embed it into the cake/icing and still have half showing.

Have wooden dowels ready to keep the fondant even when rolling. I really like the dowels that are square wood rather than round. These decorations looked like they were 3/8" to 1/4" thick.

You can roll between two Silpat mats...or grease your counter-top with Crisco, lightly sift cornstarch, lay down the fondant and roll out.

You can also make fondant easily by melting marshmallows and adding powdered sugar. But if this is your first time, just buy the canned stuff. Know that it will be ridiculously expensive with respect to the ingredients used to make it. Think about using one of those 40% off coupons at JoAnns.

 
Deb, the peppermint kisses look great! If you make them please let me

know how they turn out. I am not sure I could do that "paint the pastry bag" part and it actually work!!!

 
Marilyn, thank you so much for all the scoop!!! I want to make the

snowflakes and will definitely start them ahead of time. Hopefully I can make them this coming weekend as the holiday work party is next week!!

 
Well - I was going to put two pastry bags in one larger bag

and they would share one tip. So it wouldn't look exactly the same but close enough and way easier!

 
I "think" if you paint 4 thin lines of red gel inside the bag and then fill with

white icing you'll get that effect. It would be easier with a smaller bag (than a 16" bag) so the red doesn't have such a long stretch.

 
This looks great! I'm going to find the red & white hershey's kisses to sub for the

meringues on the top.

I need to do some bake sale items, I'll use this with red velvet cupcakes.

 
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