Pink Camo Fondant Tutorial

Start with about equal amounts of the colored fondant that will be in your design

Start to break off small amounts in different sizes and lay them out randomly on your work surface.

Continue adding your other colors in a random pattern. You can give them a slight roll in your hands if you like, but you want to stay away from perfect little round balls. The different shapes will give more character when you roll it out.

Once you are happy with the amount you have set out, give them all a little squish together. If rolling out to wrap a cake (like I did in this tutorial) try to keep it more rectangular. If you are going to cover your entire cake, keep it round to start with.

Gently start to roll out from the middle to the sides. Be careful with the direction you roll, each roll will distort the colors in that direction. Try to keep them as even as possible (two rolls one way, two the other etc). Once you have the desired length or shape, trim off any excess. Mine was being used to wrap the cake, so a long rectangle was needed.

Carefully lift it on to wax paper that is slightly longer than the fondant, so you have something to hold on to at each end. I was able to lift it over (long enough to wrap an 8in extended tier cake) without any trouble, but you could always use "The Mat" for larger pieces. Trim the wax paper along your straight edge of fondant, so you can use that as your guide along the bottom.

Wax paper trimmed down and ready to apply to the cake

Cake is prepared with a white fondant lid over the ganache. The lid can be applied before or after wrapping the sides, it will just depend on where you want the seam to be. For this cake I wanted the seam to be on the top rather than the side, so I applied the lid first.

Starting to wrap the cake

wrapping around

almost there

Once it is almost all of the way around, start to smooth it on to the cake. You need to make sure that the fondant has stuck to the cake before you try to pull off the wax paper.

Give the fondant another smooth and you're ready for decorations. For this Cowgirl Baby Shower cake I added some rope to cover the seams

The finished product

Ready for a party