Black-and-White Striped Fondant Cake

 

Ingredients

• 8 cups batter Favorite cake recipe or mix
• Buttercream Icing Recipe
• 24 ounces Black Decorator Preferred Fondant
  
  
• 7 ounces White Decorator Preferred Fondant

  Instructions:

  Step 1

  Make cake. Prepare batter following recipe directions. Bake and cool cakes. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Stack and fill for a 2-layer cake, 4 in. high.
  

  Step 2

  Cover cakes with fondant. Use spatula and buttercream icing to lightly ice cake. Cover cake with black fondant.
  

  Step 3

  Decorate cake. Use fondant roller with orange guide rings to roll white fondant 1/8 in. thick. Use fondant trimmer to cut 18 fondant strips, each 1/4 in. x 4 in., and 34 fondant strips, each 1/8 in. x 4 in. Store strips under storage board.
  Use damp brush to attach strips to side of cake, beginning with a wide strip. Working to your right, attach a narrow strip 3/8 in. from the wide strip. Attach another narrow strip, 3/8 in. from the previous narrow strip. Attach a wide strip 1/8 in. from the previous narrow strip. Continue around cake in this placement pattern.