Selah really looks forward to Wednesdays when she can play with other kids her age at preschool.
So, when I was asked to make Jesus' Birthday cake for the class Christmas party, I couldn't have been more thrilled. I really wanted to make it special. I dug up a easy & yummy chocolate cake recipe, which is always a pleaser...
I wanted to add special embelishments, but since I didn't have the ingredients to make modeling chocolate, I decided to go with fondant. I have messed around with fondant before, but I didn't want to buy a whole ten dollar tub when I only needed a little bit of it. So, I went online and used this recipe, and was grateful that it only required three ingredients that I always have on hand.
Here ya go...
~just a word about this recipe, I kept dusting my hands with powdered sugar because it gets rather sticky the more you handle it.
Hard to believe this will be opaque and pliable, but it will.
We poured our fondant onto a pan and let it set. When it was tempered enough to touch, we made a figure eight motion in the pan and sure enough, it started turning white & forming a ball. Don't worry if it's crumbly,
just knead it like bread dough and allow it to rest.
Moldable. Now knead in food color.
Gabe made baby Jesus.
Ice cream cones make wonderful trees!
Graham crackers would have worked better for our manger but, since we had none, we improvised with gingerbread,
it was heavier and took longer to dry, but it worked. We used toasted coconut for hay.
We made gifts by covering mini wheats in fondant and making ribbon with fruit roll ups.
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