Fondant Recipe Tiger Cake

Here’s what she wrote:

Thank you for sharing your fantastic fondant recipe on your site!
My baking skills are so-so, however after reading the fondant recipe, I felt confident that making tasty fondant was completely attainable!
Here’s my story, Alison, 29, Nashville:

Before I tried the fondant recipe on thecookduke, I had purchased the Wilton pre-made fondant to make a couple dozen toppers for cupcakes.
My first endeavor was successful, it gave me a chance to feel the texture and workability of the icing.
As cute as the toppers were, they tasted like cardboard. Even after rolling the icing out on powdered sugar…

After milling around on the internet, I came across thecookduke.com, read the testimonials, and asked a girlfriend if she would like to try it out with me…

We very precisely followed the directions… However, I think our fondant was a little too warm, because it kept “melting” or sticking to her granite countertops.
The vegetable shortening became key when working the icing, and we found that simply wrapping up the fondant and leaving it in the fridge for a few minutes (15-20) offered enough time to cool it down and solidify the texture.

We made two colors, orange and black. The black was very grey, even with a ton of icing dye. In the end, I simply painted dye directly on to specific spots to darken the grey to a black.
Orange worked great, we were able to achieve color in no time at all.

The tiger’s base is a marshmallow, with fondant shaped around it. His tummy, nose, ears, and paws are also marshmallow.
Then the marshmallow was coated with a little vanilla frosting - to give it that ‘fuzzy’ texture.
I did use tooth picks to attach his head to his torso, Paw prints were cut with circular cookie cutters.
I did include a portrait of Percy the Tiger by himself, because I kinda gave him a touch up before presenting him to my daughters school…

This project was pretty lengthly, and it did help to have a more experienced baker in the kitchen with me (it was her first time making fondant, too!).
Making the cakes ahead of time, from scratch, took about 3 hours. Two square white cakes with a simple mix of strawberry preserves heated and mixed with Grand Mariner as a filling.
Vanilla (store bought) frosting on the cakes to crumb coat.
The fondant portion ran roughly 6 hours, from scratch to finished cake.

It was completely worth the work and I cannot wait to make another cake (probably in two weeks!).

Thank you *again* for sharing this amazing fondant recipe. Your blog, advice, testimonials, and feedback gave me all of the ingredients and encouragement I needed for my first fondant cake!! =)

And look how great her cakes are:

Fondant Recipe Tiger Cake 1/5

Fondant Recipe Tiger Cake 2/5

Fondant Recipe Tiger Cake 3/5

Fondant Recipe Tiger Cake 4/5

Fondant Recipe Tiger Cake 5/5

• Fondant Recipe - Stephanie’s Experience
• Fondant recipe - Jacalyn’s Experience
• Fondant Recipe - Amy Johnson’s experience
• Fondant Recipe - Sarah’s experience

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I get many great comments on my fondant recipe, and one of the questions I’m being frequently asked is what kind of cake to use as the base cake.
Well, there’re hundreds of recipes that can be used as base cake for the fondant recipe, all having the right mass and moist texture needed to support the fondant icing, but here’s the recipe for a cake you can’t fail with. I call it “Fondant icing friendly cake”
(In addition, due to its firm body it’s a perfect cake for tiered designs)

Fondant Icing Cake’s Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups of butter
• 2 1/2 cups of granulated sugar
• 3 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of milk
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon Almonds Extract (I’m using the almonds extract but you can easily replace it with pure vanilla extract or any other flavor you like)
• 3/4 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt

Fondant Icing Cake’s Preparations:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Mix the butter and sugar in a mixer bowl until light and fluffy
• Add the eggs one at a time, keep mixing until all eggs are added
• Add the almonds flavorings to the mix, followed by the flour with baking powder and salt
• Add flour mixture alternately with milk, starting with the flour
• Spray pans with vegetable pan spray and pour in the mix
• Bake until a wooden skewer comes out clean (I rather use a skewer rather than a toothpick after I burnt my hands several times using a short toothpick…)
• Cool for ten minutes in the pans, and the cake is ready for you to loosen the sides and remove the pans
• Let the cake cool completely before you start the fondant icing

This recipe makes around 8 cups of batter which will give you two 8″ round cakes. (The amount of fondant you get by following my fondant recipe is enough to cover two 8” cakes with a little fondant left for decorations)

Base cake for fondant icing

Bast cake for Fondant Icing

I hope that this recipe will encourage you to try my fondant recipe, you’re always welcome to send me pictures of cakes you made using my fondant recipe to theduke@thecookduke.com

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Stephanie had a bad experience with the store-bought prepackaged fondant and she decided to give my fondant recipe a try.

Here’s what she wrote:
”
I just wanted to share with you how impressed I was with your fondant recipe!

Stephanie B
”
And here are the pictures of the cakes she made:

Fondant Recipe

Fondant Recipe

I think it’s a great success, I bet no one believed it’s her first attempt with fondant recipe!

If you want to try my fondant recipe you can find it in the post called… fondant recipe

You’re all welcome to send me pictures of cakes you made using my fondant recipe to theduke@thecookduke.com I’ll be happy to post it in my blog.

To see more pictures of people using my fondant recipe please visit “Fondant Recipe - Amy Johnson’s experience” , “How to make fondant - Gerbera Daisy Cake” and “Fondant recipe - Jacalyn’s Experience”

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Jacalyn W. had a great success with my fondant recipe, here’s what she wrote:
”
Dear Duke,

Thanks for sharing!
Jacalyn”
And here are the great pictures she sent:

fondant recipe

Fondant recipe

Fondant recipe

Fondant recipe

Fondant Recipe

As Jacalyn wrote, the fondant is shinning in some places, but it’ll be ok when the color dries.

I think it’s a great success, I bet no one believed it’s her first attempt with fondant recipe!

If you want to try my fondant recipe you can find it in the post called… fondant recipe

You’re all welcome to send me pictures of cakes you made using my fondant recipe to theduke@thecookduke.com I’ll be happy to post it in my blog.

To see more pictures of people using my fondant recipe please visit “Fondant Recipe - Amy Johnson’s experience” and “How to make fondant - Gerbera Daisy Cake”

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Fondant recipe is the most popular recipe on my blog, and although many times I feel that many good recipes goes overlooked, at least I’m happy my fondant recipe is a success.

My fondant recipe post is also the post i get most comments about, and when the reader is as generous as Amy J I also get a respond letter with pictures describing the reader’s fondant recipe experience.

Here’s what Amy wrote:

“Dear Cook Duke,

Sincerely,
Amy Johnson
Canada “

As you can read, even when she encountered some difficulties, the fondant recipe experience is still a success.

And here are the pictures she sent, I bet her next cake will look better, but for a first attempt it’s a GREAT success!

Fondant recipe Micky mouse cake

Fondant recipe MM cake 2

Well Amy, I’m happy you enjoyed my fondant recipe and thank you for your mail and pics.

For better understanding on how to color fondant you can view my post named “how to color fondant” and for all of you who hadn’t try yet - You’re welcome to try my fondant recipe, and more welcome to send me pictures of cakes you made using my fondant recipe to theduke@thecookduke.com

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My Pumpkin Soup Recipe is my way of notifying my family that winter is here.

For some people the pumpkin soup recipe is a sign of Halloween coming, but trust me – after trying this Pumpkin Soup Recipe you’ll find yourself making it over and over again.

Pumpkin Soup Recipe Ingredients:

• 2 Pounds (900 gr) peeled and chopped Pumpkin
• 1 roughly chopped large onion
• 1 peeled and chopped large potato
• 1 peeled and chopped large carrot
• 1 stick of chopped celery, strings discarded
• 1.5 pints (700 ml) vegetable stock
• 1 vegetable stock cube
• 1oz (25g) butter
• half pint cream
• 2 tblspoons of chives chopped to garnish
• Salt and pepper

This pumpkin soup recipe is very easy to prepare - follow the preparations below and your pumpkin soup is ready to serve within one hour!

Pumpkin Soup Recipe preparations:

1. In a large heavy bottomed saucepan melt the butter and add all the vegetables
2. Cook gently for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Make sure the vegetables don’t get brown
3. Add the vegetable stock and the stock cube and stir
4. Simmer gently for about 20 minutes until the vegetables are just cooked and then purée with a blender
5. Return the puréed vegetables to the saucepan and season to taste
6. Add the cream and re-heat very gently
7. Sprinkle with the chopped chives before serving to complete the pumpkin soup recipe

Pumpkin Soup Recipe Tips:

• If you plan to freeze this pumpkin soup do not add the cream until you defrost the soup before serving
• This Pumpkin Soup Recipe can be kept refrigerated for over a week
• This Pumpkin Soup Recipe takes about 25 minutes of preparations and about 30 minutes cooking

If you have any comment regardeing this Recipe please let me know, I’d appreciate if you could recommend this pumpkin soup recipe using une of the social networks below.

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My “How to make a diaper cake” post is one of two special posts (the second is my “how to make fondant” post) that keep surprising me.
The special thing about those posts is that people get such good results, that many of them make it into a business.

Look at this Diaper cake made by Gerry G, I guess she took the video tutorial I recommended…

Pati’s Diaper Cake pictures:

How to make a diaper cake

How to make a diaper cake

And this is what she wrote:

“This is my first attempt to make a diaper cake, and WOW did I have fun!!! There are 100 size 2 diapers, 130 rubber bands, plus “gifts”. The mother-to-be loved it. This cake took me 5 hours to make. If I can do it, anyone can:) Good luck to all, and thank you for letting me share my success story. Gerry G, CA
PS
I am making a 2nd diaper cake, which I have already sold!! I did not roll my diapers, but did the fan look. I will send pics.”

Not only she’s making great diaper cakes, she also turned it into an additional income stream – WOW!

In my original “how to make a diaper cake” post I mentioned this “cheap as chips” video tutorial that showed me the in’s and out’s of how to make a diaper cake.
I never thought that following it is a way to generate more income

Gerry, thanks for the diaper cake pictures, I will be happy to get pictures of more cakes you made, diaper cake or not.
I hope you can develop your “how to make a diaper cake” adventure into a real business, my benefit will be getting the pictures to post here.

You are welcome to see another diaper cake made by one of the readers at “How to make a diaper cake by Pati” and you’re most welcome to send me pictures of cakes you made to: theduke@thecookduke.com
 
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My “How to make a diaper cake” post is online for 2 years now, and nothing makes me happier than getting picture from people who made diaper cakes following my “recipe”.

This diaper cake was made by Pati B following my How to make a diaper cake post.

Pati’s Diaper Cake picture:

How to make a diaper cake

“Dear Cook Duke
 I can understand how hard it is to make the diaper cakes.  I have seen the one you tried to attempt on a site that sells the cakes.  It’s the diapers fanned out around a center, very hard to do I would think.  It was a valiant attemp.  I just made a plain old rolled diaper cake.  I did the diapers first one night.  Then my cousin and I made the cake together.  She’s my “bow” expert LOL 
It’s not too bad for a first one.
 Caption:  Diaper cake for shower 4/6/08 for my daughter Erin.  It was fun to do.”

So first of all, not only it’s not too bad, it’s actually good for a first try!

In my original “how to make a diaper cake” post I mentioned this “cheap as chips” video tutorial that showed me the in’s and out’s of how to make a diaper cake.

The thing I like about this video tutorial is that it saves you the need for first tries and takes you to a complete different level, although Pati shows us that you can make a beautiful diaper cake without any training.

Pati, thanks for the diaper cake picture, will be happy to get pictures of more cakes you made, diaper cake or not

Anyone that followed my “how to make a diaper cake” post is welcome to send me pictures to theduke@thecookduke.com
 
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My Pirate Ship Cake recipe is online for almost 2 years now, and finally I got mail with pictures from someone who actually used it.

Caroline J sent me this lovely 2 Pirate ship cake pictures and I think the cake she made looks GREAT!

Caroline’s Pirate Ship Cake pictures: 

Pirate Ship Cake

Pirate ship cake

After mastering the Pirate Ship Cake, I hope her next step is to learn how to make fondant, following my fondant recipe.

As always, it’s a great pleasure getting responds from my readers, and if you send pictures of cakes you made using my recipes it’s best, as other readers can see that the recipes are not impossible.

Caroline – Many thanks for the pirate ship cake pictures, I hope you’ll try more recipes and send more pictures J

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If you follow my blog I hoped you already try my banana cake recipe, and I’m sure you’ll find this banana cheese cake recipe just as good.

Banana Cheese Cake Recipe Crust Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups quick?cooking oats
• 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 5 tablespoons melted butter 

Banana Cheese Cake Recipe Crust Preparation:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Stir together the oats, pecans, brown sugar and butter until well combined
• Press the mixture firmly into the bottom and up the sides of a 9?inch baking pan
• Bake for 18 minutes or until golden brown
• Set aside till Cool

Banana Cheese Cake Recipe Filling Ingredients:

• 16 ounces softened cream cheese
• 1 cup mashed ripe bananas
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 4 eggs

Banana Cheese Cake Recipe Filling Preparation:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Beat together the cream cheese, bananas, 3/4 cup sugar and lemon juice until well blended
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition and pour mixture into the crust
• Bake for 40 minutes
• While the cake is baking, prepare Sour Cream Topping

Banana Cheese Cake Recipe Topping Ingredients: 

• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Banana slices for garnish

Banana Cheese Cake Recipe Topping Preparation: 

• Mix together the sour cream, sugar and vanilla extract until well blended
• Take the cheese cake out of the oven and top with the sour cream mixture
• Return to the oven and bake for another 10 minutes
• Keep in the oven till the cheese cake is cooled to room temperature
• Refrigerate overnight in a covered pan
• Garnish with banana slices before serving

OK, now the cake is finished, but sometimes when you finish following this banana cheese cake recipe you have leftover crust or filling - don’t throw it away!

Pull out any small baking dish, press the crust in the dish and bake it.

Once the crust is baked add the filling and bake again, when the baking time depends on the leftover you have left (it may only take 20 minutes to bake at the same temperature)

It takes a short time and you have your own personal cheese cake, I usually use it as a treat for my wife…

I hope you love this Banana Cheese Cake Recipe, as always, you’re welcome to send me questions, comments and pictures of the cakes you made following this banana cheese cake recipe.

BTW – You can now follow me on Twitter – just look for thecookduke

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