Monkeying Around with Fondant

Another baby shower! (I'm sensing a theme here.) This time I needed to put a monkey on the cake, and since I have a four- and nearly two-year-old, the monkey I know most intimately is Curious George. A few cakes ago when I'd bought black fondant, the package also came with brown and light brown fondant, so I decided to try it again.

I found a cute coloring sheet for George and used it as the template. I cut each of his body parts into a template piece, then put it over the brown fondant. Then I cut each piece out with an exacto knife and pieced it back together on the cake. Then I traced the entire picture with black frosting and created his eyes and smile with frosting, too.

I'm still not sold on fondant...maybe it's because I don't know much about it, but I prefer butter cream.


The other cake was the baby's initials.