Half-Covered Stripes
Just a quick note (hopefully) with a few hints on how to create a seamless join when you want to have more than one colour of fondant covering your cake, with no overlaps. 1. Start by calculating the size fondant you need to cover the top half of the cake (in my case, the blue). I wanted the blue to come halfway down the sides of the cake so my fondant needed to be 7” (the top of the cake) + 2.25” (the cake was 4.5” high) x 2 (for each side) = 11.5” diameter. 2. Use your usual method of moistening your cake so that the fondant sticks to it, but only moisten half way down the sides. 3. Roll a piece of fondant and cut a circle of the right size(ish) usin...
