Fondant Recipe – Ben’s Fondant Cake
My Fondant Recipe is one of my most popular recipes, and the reason I love it most is because I get so many responses to it. People keep sending me pictures and sharing their experience with this recipe, and that’s what this blog is all about 
I suggest you read Ben B’s story below, his first time working with Fondant Recipe is so successful, I hope it’d inspire all of you to give it a try!
Here’s Ben’s mail:
Fondant Recipe - Lightening McQueen Fondant Cake
Hi,
I just really wanted to let you know how much fun I had over the weekend creating my first fondant covered cake! Not only did I use your fondant recipe (less the vegetable shortening, is this the reason for the cracking in the surface of the fondant or is that just a slight error in the consistency?) and your tips on how to colour the fondant but I also used your fondant friendly cake recipe, all of which were superb.
I consider myself to be fairly proficient at baking and cake decorating but this has now opened up a whole new world. I have previously avoided fondant because I had only ever had the commercial type and I find that very offensive to taste and in my opinion if the cake looks great but doesn’t taste great, it’s a failure! This however is delicious! (is it possible to get actual almond extract? All I seem to be able to find is artificially flavoured which I generally stay away from?).
The problem that I have when I decorate cakes is that when I finish all I can see is the errors and that is the case with this cake as well although after getting up the next morning and seeing it I am quite pleased with and proud of the result! The worst thing on this cake is the black finishing icing, its rough and in the wrong place in several areas but I have put that down to it being done at 2 in the morning having been at work all day!!!! I also still need to work out (or can you tell me?) how to attach pieces such as the spoiler without leaving such a large and visible seem. This would also be useful for fixing any tears that do occur!
You can also just see that in the lightning strikes down the side that I tried to kneed and roll out a sheet of fondant that fades from yellow to orange! It has sort of worked but I should probably have used less colour in the yellow end to start with (as per your advice, that’s midnight lazy syndrome!). Any tips on how to get that effect?
Anyway, I should stop waffling now! Thanks again for such a great experience, I have a baby shower cake to make this weekend and the only way to go now is fondant. I will send you some pictures and my intention is to leave you speechless as Brandy did with what is a truly mesmerising cake!
Yours hoping to get a picture in your blog,
Ben
And here are a few more pictures he sent:
Lightening McQueen Fondant cake
Lightening McQueen Fondant cake - side view
How to make fondant cake - By Ben
Thank you Ben for following my fondant recipe and for taking the time to send me this mail and the beautiful pictures of your cake, I agree that there’s a room for improvements but I can assure you that your cake looks WAYYYY better than any of my first cakes.
Happy Cooking
