This is not the cake I'm making for Adam. Isn't it pretty though?

Something strange happened this year, I ran out of gift ideas for Adam’s birthday! So I decided that aside from the usual presents, I would try to make him a special cake.

Now I can’t go into too much detail just yet, since it isn’t complete yet, and because Adam might read this. Let me just say that it involves rolled fondant.

I’ve always wondered how people made wedding cakes that look so great and during one of my occaisional Flickr trawlings I stumbled on some of the most beautiful cukcakes I’ve ever seen in this photostream. After looking through all of her pictures I saw a comment that mentioned fondant, and that’s pretty much how I got into this baking situation.

I only saw one type of fondant in Woolies and it didn’t look or taste that great, so I looked for a recipe that claimed to be for a relatively tasty fondant. After much searching, this recipe came up and I’m glad to say that it’s been a success! (On the second try though, I wasn’t paying attention to the pan on my first go and burned the lot.)

I’ve just got to make a couple more batches in the morning, grab the last of his presents from the shops and then we’re set!

Once the cake is complete, I’ll do a blog post with pictures. Hopefully the cake turns out well!