The finished chess cake |
The fondant recipes that I found looked so tedious that I bought black and white ready made fondant from the cake decorating store. It cost me approximately $10 a kg.
Creating chess pieces out of fondant proved more difficult than I had imagined as the fondant becomes really quite soft when it is being worked with. The black fondant also stained my hands after playing with it for a couple hours making the pieces. My chessmen were stretching out of shape all over the place and slowly tipping over. Finally I managed to get together enough pieces which looked like chessmen to use for the cake decoration. I wanted 24 chess pieces as it was my husband's 24th birthday.
Below are some of the pictures during construction.
Some of the chess men |
Rolling out the fondant icing |
I measured 2cm squares |
Iced mud cake |
Placing the chess board squares on the cake |
The chess men all in place |
It was a beautiful mud cake recipe!! |
Wow -- I am SO IMPRESSED!!! Your husband must have been bowled over.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing how tough it was to accomplish, because the final result looks masterful!