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    Posted: 15 August 2011 at 5:05pm
Hi!

I've got DS' first birthday coming up and I want to make the cake and decorate it with fondant.
Just wondered how many days beforehand I can make the fondant shapes? Can I then store them in the fridge in preparation for decorating the cake the night before or will they crack/dry out? Any advice appreciated!

Also, I can get vanilla or buttercream flavoured fondant. Has anyone tried both? Any preference for flavour? I must admit I'm not much of a fondant fan but have only really had it on Xmas cake...I'm assuming that is traditionally vanilla flavoured fondant??

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I made fondant animals for the top of My DS's first birthday cake. I made most of them 3 or 4 days out. They took up to a day to really harden. I just kept them on a plate high up in the pantry. I made a practice one about a month before that kept fine as well.

My MIL squashed them all into a small tupperware container after the party, proceeding to break half of them. I was a bit annoyed! Anyway, I finally took them out of the container about 5 days later and they had gone a bit soft and most then broke . My MIL is often doing 'helpful' stuff like that.....

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I made the fondant animals for DS cake a week in advance, they keep pretty much indefinitely.

Doing things like stripes and letters for the side of the cake I did as I was decorating because they needed to mold to the side of the cake.



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Thanks shellgirl and Azza - I hadn't even thought about the fact that they would need to mould to to the side of the cake! Will keep that in mind.

Loved your topsy turvy cake BTW Azza!

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Thanks Jaune! I cant wait to try doing another cake!



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I want to make farm animals for DD's 1st birthday cake, has anyone made them before and did you have a guide to help you?

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I had a play around with animals etc for DS's cake earlier in the year and just kept them in an airtight container, they were still good a week later.

Caliandjack - there are heaps of tutorials on YouTube and the net
 
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I made animals for DD's 1st birthday...

I made them a few weeks ahead of time and kept them in the hot water cupboard to dry (& away from little fingers ) They are totally dry now & will last 'forever'?!

I did google searches for fondant animals but in the end I basically rolled a ball for the head & 1 for the body & went from there!
There are very good YouTude videos tho!

I loved your topsy turvy cake too!!

Avoid putting Fondant in the fridge it will go sticky!
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Whoops huge pic, sorry!
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That is an awesome cake 3xMummy

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