I am making a topsy turvey cake first time....with fondant (first time) ...

it is music inspired and I have a great plan however...I am new to fondant and I am scared of it!!!!


I want hot pink, silver and black coloring. I think i can go with a raspberry color (pink and red)...I am never good with black with buttercream icing...and for the silver i think I am just going to dust it on white...any ideas on coloring?

Since this is my first fondant experience I am opting for premade...can i use my mccormick flavors to flavor it?
I need this cake by this saturday...please help

Do you have a bakery supply place that you know of in your area? If not, you've got a choice of Wilton and Duff's fondant. And if you don't have a Michael's, it's pretty much Wilton. If there's a Hobby Lobby in your area Americolor has a great color called Electric Pink, but I'm not sure if they carry it. If you've never really worked with fondant, it's hit or miss to try and make your own, but I think a great hot pink could be achieved with Michele Foster's fondant adding a packet of unsweetened strawberry koolaid to the hot mixture and adding Electric Pink as needed later. Wilton's fondant tastes awful, but it's pretty sturdy stuff and easier for beginners to work with. You're better off buying black fondant, though. Hopefully there's a bakery supply. Good luck!

Wilton's Pink( gel coloring) taste disgusting as well.

You are better off buying pre- colored black fondant. The pink should be easy to tint. For the silver, dye the fondant a light grey then paint on some silver luster dust mixed with decorating alcohol.

I'm with the others on buying black, I tried to make black before and was impossible to get it that dark, then it faded to purple in a few hours.

I also agree on the taste of wilton fondant...if you can't buy the premade already colored, you need to paint with luster dust, or in a perfect world, airbrush the color. But I don't know what supplies you have in your kitchen and/or city. It really isn't that hard to make fondant!! Especially using marshmallows! Lots of recipes on here!

Good luck and post pics on here!

It depends on what you define as 'hot pink'

this was done with Americolor Electric pink:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1555194.html

and this with Wilton rose colour:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1812800.html

You are very brave at attempting a topsy with fondant, both for the first time - I wish you luck, be prepared for a lot of swearing and recovering!

good luck dear.. it will take alot of effort.. be prepared to use lots and lots and lots of food coloring!!

Start with dark brown then add black to get a really good black color.

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MikeRoweshunny, have you tasted anything done with the electric pink? I just bought it last week after tasting the disgusting flavor I got from the Wilton pink. I wanna try the electric pink this week.

I love this recipe
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/6971/true-black-mmf
If it was me, I have a harder time with the construction of a topsy turvy than the fondant. I really like this recipe.

I think Fondx makes a hot pink color pre-made (Sexy Pink?) and black. If you have time to order online you could save yourself a lot of headache by purchasing pre-made.

Kristy

Thanks for all the input!!!

So i got Duff's black and his white to tint pink...

OMG Duff's buttercream fondant is yummy!!! and I tasted the black...black is normally my least fav. color to eat!!

I got a fuchsia color to play with and i have wiltons pink....so we'll see what color pink i end up with...

I am excited to play with the fondant...i made black stars with it on popciscle sticks to stick out...

now for a semi dumb question...i am crumb coating/filling with banana flavored buttercream....with fondant...do i just do the crumb coat or do i slap on a top layer of frosting? can I flavor buttercream fondant?

Too late now for your cake date, but I really love the new vibrant colors of Elite by Fondx. The Jet Black and Sexy Pink are like nothing I've seen before. And yes, taste great! Really bright colors - oranges, lime green, purple, etc., and really hold their color as well. By the time you knead so much color in, the time spent, money spent on color, and frustration are better exchanged for pre-colored fondant. We have a video on coloring fondant if you're interested. http://www.youtube.com/sweetwiseinc#p/u/6/JqSl_Xh5dlw