Fondant Back to School Cake
This cake was for my kids to celebrate the first day of school this year. This is leftover cake from another project. This is a 5-inch round red velvet cake (without food coloring) filled with vanilla American buttercream. I crumb coated the cake and chilled the cake in the fridge before frosting it again. And I made some rainbow fondant including a peachy skin color to decorate with. My 11-year-old daughter wanted to help. I covered the cake with white fondant and cut out some black letters spelling out Back to School and placed them on the cake board. Then I cut out an apple out of red fondant and a leaf from green. I made a pencil out of yellow, peach and black fondant. And placed it on top of the cake. I added a yellow rectangle on the side of the cake. And I painted ruler markings with black food coloring. I made a paint palette out of peach fondant. Then I started adding color splotches on the paint palette. I made a paintbrush out of black, peach and red fondant. Finally, I...