Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, japanese cake covered with fondant. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
You can use store-bought or homemade fondant to cover your cake. Our Decorator Preferred fondant comes in a wide variety of colors, flavors and sizes to best suit your needs; however, you can certainly make your own using our easy Rolled Marshmallow Fondant recipe (just keep in mind that homemade fondant won't have as much stretch and elasticity as store-bought fondant). Adhere it to the cake with extract around the base covering the showing cake board.
Japanese cake covered with fondant is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Japanese cake covered with fondant is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have japanese cake covered with fondant using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese cake covered with fondant:
- Prepare 1 kg icing sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup water
- Get 1 spoon gelatin
- Take 1/4 cup glucose syrup
- Prepare Glycerin
Make sure your plastic wrap is touching the fondant so the plastic absorbs the condensation while the cake defrosts, otherwise the fondant will become watery. How to cover your cake in fondant and get sharp edges using the upside-down technique. Covering a cake in fondant can be super intimidating and scary if you've never done it or even more so if you have tried it and failed miserably which I can honestly say is probably everyone when they first start out. Cover the cake generously with buttercream icing by piling it on top of the cake and easing it across the top and sides.
Steps to make Japanese cake covered with fondant:
- Sieve the sugar
- Put in a bowl and make a well
- Put water into a bowl over a boiler, add gelatin and stir
- Add the glucose syrup and stir
- Add into the sugar and knead
- Place on a flat surface and knead
- Knead until paliable
- It should look like this
Be sure to fill all the gaps when smoothing it down the sides. Create smooth edges and sharp corners by turning the cake on the turntable and simultaneously using a palette knife to smooth the buttercream on the sides and top. The vast majority of cake decorators cover their cakes with either ganache or buttercream before applying fondant. For help covering your cake with ganache, check out my earlier post here. As for buttercream, there are two general camps: meringue based or crusting.
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