It's my understanding that you can ice any fruit or sponge cakes with fondant (although I've only iced a lemon sponge so far but I do plan to make a fruit cake for Xmas & ice that. *g*) If you want to ice sponge you need to cover it in buttercream icing first & I also spread a layer of warmed, seedless jam over it, too - to help the fondant icing to stick. If you're not sure about rolling out fondant, you can by the pre-rolled stuff. Though I rolled my own & found it a lot easier than I'd thought. You can buy already coloured fondant in loads of colours - so you could buy red for the petals & even black icing for the centre of the poppy & green for some leaves. :) One larger cake with white icing & then a big poppy does sound lovely. Yes, I'd draw out a simple template & use that to cut the poppy, if I were you. Yay for baking!
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Date: 20 Sep 2013 01:46 pm (UTC)If you want to ice sponge you need to cover it in buttercream icing first & I also spread a layer of warmed, seedless jam over it, too - to help the fondant icing to stick. If you're not sure about rolling out fondant, you can by the pre-rolled stuff. Though I rolled my own & found it a lot easier than I'd thought. You can buy already coloured fondant in loads of colours - so you could buy red for the petals & even black icing for the centre of the poppy & green for some leaves. :)
One larger cake with white icing & then a big poppy does sound lovely. Yes, I'd draw out a simple template & use that to cut the poppy, if I were you.
Yay for baking!