Suri Cruise celebrated her 2nd birthday on April 18th with a small gathering of family and friends. At the center of the celebration, was a beautiful green and yellow polka dot butterfly birthday cake. This cake reportedly cost close to $5,000! Imagine that!
If you would like to make a similar birthday cake for your child’s birthday, you will need to start with three or four cakes baked in different sized circles to create the tiered effect. Next, you will need to learn how to decorate a cake with fondant.
You can make fondant from scratch or purchase ready-to-use rolled out fondant icing. Fondant can be tinted any color you would like or you can purchase colored fondant to save some time if you don’t want to tint it yourself. If you do chose to tint the fondant yourself, be sure to use icing paste instead of liquid food colors since food coloring will make your fondant wet and and too watered down.
Fondant can also be made into many different shapes as you can see with Suri’s butterflies and polka dots above. There are many small cookie cutters available on the market that you can use to create fondant shapes. And, once you gain more experience working with fondant, you can start creating custom shapes of your own.
Lastly, it is very important to make the cake as smooth as you can before adding the fondant shapes as any imperfections can be seen through the rolled on fondant.
So, there you have the basics of decorating with fondant! If you practice the technique enough, I am certain you will be able to create a birthday cake as beautiful as Suri’s with a much lower price tag!
