Coffee Cup Cakes with Chocolate Fondant

Hooreyyyyyy!! My first try of fondant cake looks beautiful :) I have always dreamt of making fondant cakes. All credits for such dreams go to ultimate cake off and just cakes tv shows. The huge cakes with lovely colorful fondant covering is so magical to see. Since then I have been wanting to make one myself and a ready made pack of chocolate fondant found in nearby store kindled my senses and yup here I go with my first trial with fondant!! :)

I loved making it and when the cake was ready to decorate, all my inspirational videos and photographs ran on my mind at a super speed that I couldnt resist trying them all. So each of my cup cake looks different and some look so Indianish too :) Care a damn, I love my cupcakes and so did my family :)

Will soon be trying fondant from scratch and posting it too :)

Coffee cup cakes recipe: -

Ingredients:

All purpose flour (maida) - 1 1/3 cup
Cooking soda - 3/4 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Butter - 1/3 cup
Sugar - 1/3 cup
Egg - 1
Coffee decoction - 1/4 cup

Method:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line cupcake tins with paper liners.

In a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt.

In a separate bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light-colored and fluffy. Add the egg and beat well. On low speed, add flour mixture, alternating with coffee decoction.

Divide batter among prepared liners, 1/3 cup in each. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 - 25 minutes or until firm to touch.

Let cupcakes cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes. Remove from pan to rack and cool completely before frosting.

Assembling the cake for fondant decoration.

You need a cream base on top of the cake for the fondant to stick on it. Hence I simply spread a thin layer of nutella over the coffee cup cakes.

The next step is to roll the ready made fondant(or home made) to a 1/4 inch thickness. Cut them into desired shape and size. Here I used a large circular cookie cuter to cut circles.

Place the circular fondant on your left palm and take the cup cake on your right hand and place it inverted on top of the fondant circle. Press it slightly with your hand for the fondant to stick to the cake. Leave it on wire rack until decoration.

Royal icing recipe : -

Ingredients:

Egg white - from 1 egg
Icing sugar - 1 1/2 cup aprox
Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Method:

Beat the egg white for 5 mins or until frothy. Add the lemon juice and 1/2 cup of icing sugar and beat. Continue adding icing sugar in intervals until the icing forms stiff peaks. This consistency would be right to design using a cone.

Make cones with plastic sheet and fill it with royal icing and draw the desired designs over the fondant covered cakes :)

Written by: Nithya
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