So watching lots of Ace of Cakes and Cake Challenge, I
But lucky for me it looked pretty simple, so we loaded up with supplies and gave it ago.
We decided to make a Settlers of Catan cake!
Not Shown: Me hand mixing that fondant for an hour. Seriously, it was tough going mixing it with a spoon, but once I got the first bag of icing sugar in, it stopped being so goopy and I started using my hands to kneed it.
We got a plain cake, but Dan wasn't having any of that. She went crazy with the food colouring, good start to the cake.
How can you have tasty craft times without food colouring? Dan is mixing the main part of the fondant to drape over the whole cake.
You have to put a small layer of icing on the cake or the fondant won't stick, and it rolls out way easier if you put it between two sheets of wax paper.
We both picked up a corner, flipped it on and it easily draped around the side. We just had to trim off the extra.
This is me making the hexes that would make up the game board. I got lazy and didn't want to do the whole board, so I made at least one of each type. I was especially proud of how the brick tile turned out.
We found out that working with it this thin and kneeding it enough to get the colours mixed, made it too soft to really hold a shape, so the fondant got to spend a bunch of time in the fridge
Somehow Dan managed to mix black for the robber, but it was super soft, so it sat in the freezer for a while til it cooled down.
Dan starts putting the island tiles onto the ocean.
The island is made.
Dan's awesome robber! and the roads and settlements and dice markers she made too.
Finished Settlers of Caketan.
And it even tasted great! Plus we made way too much fondant, so I might try to so something else with it later.
