Layered with Love Fondant Cake

Sweetly express your love with a fondant-covered cake that's perfect for Valentine's Day or wedding shower. The Wilton Alphabet Cut-Outs Fondant Cutters make quick work of cutting out the letters.

AmountCake serves 12.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

6 cups Favorite cake recipe or mix
Buttercream Frosting
24 ounces Decorator Preferred White Fondant, 24 oz. Fondant Icing
1/2 ounce Decorator Preferred Red Fondant, 24 oz. Fondant Icing
cornstarch
solid vegetable shortening

Tools
6 x 2 in. Square Pan
Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula
Roll and Cut Fondant Mat
Fondant Roller, 20-Inch - Fondant Tool
20inch Rolling Pin Guide Rings
Fondant Smoother
Fondant Trimmer
Knife
Fondant Roller, 9-Inch
37 Piece Alphabet & Number Cut-Outs
Folk Fondant and Gum Paste Mold
Decorator Brush Set
Plastic ruler

Instructions

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Make cake. Prepare batter following recipe directions. Bake and cool cake. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Stack and fill for a 2-layer cake, 4 in. high. Use spatula and icing to lightly ice cake.
Cover cakes with fondant. Knead 24 oz. of white fondant with a 1 in. ball of red fondant to make pink fondant. Use 20 in. fondant roller with orange guide rings to roll pink fondant 1/8 in. thick. Cover cake with pink fondant. Reserve remaining pink fondant.
Decorate cake. Use 9 in. fondant roller with purple guide rings to roll remaining pink fondant 1/8 in. thick. Use "L", "v" and "E" cut-outs from set to cut out four of each letter. Use folk fondant mold and red fondant to mold four small hearts. Use damp brush to attach letters and hearts to side of cake.

Roll remaining pink fondant into 75 to 85 balls, each 3/8 in. balls. Use damp brush to attach balls along bottom of cake.