Covering A Classic Vanilla Cake In Simple Fondant
Lets take it back to basics! I love a good minimal, clean design for a cake, and the Kin Community logo was the perfect inspiration to show you how to crumb coat, chill, and cover my Ultimate Vanilla Cake in fondant.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 x 8lb portion of Yos Ultimate Vanilla Cake
Icing
- 1 x recipe Italian Meringue Buttercream
- Simple syrup
Decorations
- Icing Sugar
- 2 lbs White Fondant
Tools
- 2 x 10 round cake pan, lined with parchment paper
- 10 or 12 round cake board
- Lazy Susan
- Serrated knife
- Ruler
- Rubber spatula
- Offset spatula
- Straight spatula
- Bench scraper
- Rolling pin
- Small Sifter
- Pin
- 2 x Fondant Smoother
- Paring Knife
- Fabric measuring tape
- Simple Syrup Squeeze Bottle
Read It!
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Prepare your Ultimate Vanilla Cake batter and pour into prepared pans . Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Let cake cool completely in pans.
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Prepare your Italian Meringue Buttercream. Set aside.
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Prepare your Simple Syrup. Set aside.
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Remove your vanilla cakes from their pans, level off the tops and cut them in half using a ruler and serrated knife.
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Stack your cake layers so that the bottom layer is on top. Soak each layer in simple syrup.
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Place your cake board onto your lazy suzan.
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Spread your buttercream evenly on your cake layer using an offset spatula.
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Add your second simple syrup soaked layer of cake. Repeat filling and stacking process until you reach the top layer.
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Crumb coat the entire cake. Chill your cake for 30 minutes. Once chilled, spread an even layer of icing onto the top and sides of your cake.
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Hold your bench scraper straight up and down, and at a slight angle away from your cake. Pull your bench scraper all the way around your cake while turning your lazy susan. Remove any excess buttercream. Chill again for 30 minutes.
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Knead your fondant well, then roll out. Should be thick. Cover your cake. Use a fondant smoother to smooth out the top and sides of the cake.
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At the base, press the fondant into the cake as well as down onto the board to create a clean line at the bottom edge. Trim any excess fondant.
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Be mindful of the clothing you are wearing while rolling fondant. You want to avoid wearing anything that sheds or causes a lot of lint. Tiny particles stick to fondant like glue.
Congratulations you did it!
