Source:
Website Exclusive
Pattern:
Flame
Tools:
Ingredients:
Makes: Cake serves 30.
instructions
*Combine Violet with Rose for violet shade shown.
2 days
in advance, make flame. Tint 3 oz. fondant yellow and add 1/2 teaspoon
Gum-Tex. Roll out 3/16 in. thick. Cut out flame using pattern; let dry
on cornstarch-dusted cake board 24 hours. Brush fondant flame lightly
with water and add yellow sugar. Let set. Thin fondant with a small
amount of water and attach lollipop stick to back. Let set 24 hours.
Bake
5 1-layer rounds and cool. Place on cake boards cut to fit and prepare
for fondant covering. Divide fondant into 12 oz. portions and tint
rose, yellow, blue, green and violet with a little rose added. Cover cakes with fondant. Dowel rod cakes and stack.
Position 1 dowel rod through all 5 tiers. Roll out remaining tinted
fondant 3/16 in. thick, set up cutter with zigzag wheel and 1/3 in.
spacer. Cut 18 in. long strips and attach to cake tiers at seams with
damp brush. Bottom border strip is cut in half horizontally.
Roll out white fondant 3/8 in. thick and cut smallest rounds. Attach to cake with damp brush. Insert flame into cake top.