SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
DIRECTIONS:
JOANN Hacks:
- Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter
- Cake Mix - ingredients to bake a 13x9 cake
- White frosting
- Candy Melts in assorted colors
- White Fondant
- Assorted sprinkles
- Gel foodcoloring
- Basic baking supplies
DIRECTIONS:
- Bake cake according to package directions. Let cool completely.
- Using cookie cutter, cut hearts from a 13x9 baked cake.
- Knead and roll out the fondant to about 1/4 inch thick.
- Place it over a lightly frosted cake.
- Frost all the way down the sides, top, etc. to insure fondant will stick and hold to cakes.
- Smooth out all sides.
- Place a wired rack onto cookie sheet so poured melts can drip below.
- Heat melts to a liquid consistency. Add food coloring for desired effect.
- Pour different colored melts over cakes to create a marbling effect.
- Add sprinkles before melts set up and harden.
JOANN Hacks:
- Try not to mix melts to much so they can create a natural marble effect.
Rated 1 out of
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beginner from
Not for beginners!
Cutting heart shapes out of a 9 x 13 cake is challenging, Directions are not specific about how to use fondant and when to frost these crumbly cakes. Applying frosting, fondant and melts is a lot of work and depending on the size of your heart cutter you may have more outside than cake inside.
Date published: 2021-04-21