I just started working with fondant, and I'm wondering if you cover a cake with fondant going sideways how do you smooth out the seal of it overlapping, I hope this is understandable. Thanks!
I'm fairly new at this, but I've never heard or seen of putting fondant on sideways. I have always rolled it out large enough to cover the whole cake, smooth the sides, then trim off the bottom. All of the instructions I've ever seen were done this way. I don't know how you'd make the seam disappear like that. Sorry.
I have seen a couple of cakes where the sides are one color and the top is a different color. Therefore the sides were put on sideways, in a long strip. And the question is how to seal the seam that happens, I think. Is that what you mean, tommyandholly ?
Yes SugarFrosted, that is exactly what I meant, thanks for getting it out better than I did, So I just do the Crisco thing?
The way it's actually done is you cover the whole cake in one piece of fondant as described above but don't put anything on the top of the cake to stick the fondant down. You then use a large cutter (i cut around the tin the cake was baked in) to remove the fondant from the top of the cake. You can then spread a little buttercream on the top of the cake. Roll your second colour of fondant out. Use the same cutter to cut a new top out. Place it on the top of your cake and smooth into place. Run a finger around the join between the 2 colours to smooth it slightly. I usually pipe a small border to hide this join.
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