I am making a cake for my sisters baby shower. I am going to make baby faces with the ball cake pan, and I think the best way to cover them with be with fondant. I am not sure how to keep the fondant from overlapping when I place it over the cake. Any suggestions???

I have found that after you level the bottom and you put a thin layer of icing on, let it set to dry. Roll your fondant a slight bit thicker than for other cake shapes. Place it on the cake and gently pull the edges out like a skirt. You have to work it down over the lower 2/3ds of the cake gently. Work out every wrinkle before you form it to the cake. This takes alot of patiences but works for me every time.

Good luck, let me know how it turns out.

Sherik

Any weird shape of cake I need to fondant is MUCH easier to do if you put the crumb-coated cake in the freezer first for an hour or two. I use non-crusting IMB only, so that there is a good surface for the fondant to stick to.

As the cake thaws, don't touch the fondant because it perspires ever so slightly. That evaporates off the fondant beautifully in just a few hours though. Works like a charm. I semi-freeze nearly every novelty cake I do this way.