Fondant French-Toast-Shaped Cake--Need Help!
Decorating By sweetchef Updated 9 May 2007 , 8:17pm by sweetchef
I have a client that ordered a cake shaped like a big piece of french toast (apparently her friend's nickname is French Toast). I'm cutting a 12" square to look like one big piece of bread (I would prefer triangles, but that's what she requested). Can you guys help me brainstorm for the following:
1. She wants syrup dripping down the sides with a pool at the bottom...any ideas what to use for syrup (that still tastes right)?
2. I need a cinnamon sugar look...maybe brown petal dust?
sweetchef,
What a fun idea for a cake.....
You could use piping gel for syrup, but I would personally make some color flow in a toasty brown color and flavor it with maple, or cinnamon. I'd add a "pat" of "fondant butter with imprinted with a B" and sprinkle on powdered sugar with a sifter. I would also make two oval cakes with a slightly straightened bottom and stack them like a wacky cake or side by side instead of a toast shaped cake, because the French toast I have seen comes from French bread hence the name 
. (I know I'm a smarty pants.) For the cinnamon sugar look, I would use real cinnamon sugar and then forgo the powdered sugar. I would also make a maple flavored cake. BTW, do you know how that friend got such an unusual nick name?
No, my customer didn't tell me the story about the name. But she's VERY picky, so I can already tell there might be problems.
She wanted it shaped like one big piece of bread with a pat of butter and syrup. The cake is just a white cake with buttercream filling. All my ideas use real cinnamon, but it won't taste right that way. I'm thinking of putting it on a plate, but that would use alot of extra fondant. I found some pancake cakes in the photo gallery with piping gel syrup, but I'm not sure how thick that would be.
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