Marble Fondant for Cakes

Marble Fondant Cake With Hershey's Kisses on Black Cake Stand.

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Marble Fondant for Cakes

Learn how to marble fondant for cakes, cupcakes and cookies with food coloring. This quick and easy cake decorating tutorial is simple enough for beginners.

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Decorating time30

Total Time1 20

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: People

Calories: 974kcal

Author: Abeer Rizvi

Ingredients

2 Vegan chocolate cake (Eggless cake) Round, Dimensions: 8x2 each
4 cups Coconut cream chocolate frosting
2 cups Marshmallow fondant You need equal quantities of dark brown and light brown shades.
½ cup Whopper candies
30-35 Oreos I always keep extras on hand in case some break.

Instructions

Bake cakes and allow them to cool completely.
While the cakes are baking and cooling, prepare the frosting.
To assemble the cake, place one cake on a serving dish, spread icing on top and place the other cake on top. Press gently and the ice the entire cake smoothly. Keep aside.
Prepare light and dark shades of brown fondant using gel food coloring.
Roll both of them into long "sausage" shapes.
Align them together and start rolling them into a spiral shape.
Some people like to just roll it out at this point but I feel like that gives a cool spiral pattern rather than an abstract marble one. Now, just randomly squeeze it into a rough ball shape and knead it a little. Don't knead too much. You should still be able to see streaks of both colors.
Use a rolling pin to roll out this ball of fondant.
Spread this over your frosted cake.
Decorate with Whopper candies and Oreo cookies. Stick them into place with melted chocolate.

Notes

I highly recommend using gel food coloring instead of liquid food coloring or else your fondant will become too sticky.
If your fondant is too sticky and hard to roll out, sprinkle powdered sugar on your surface and that will make it much easier to handle.
Don't decorate a warm cake. The cake must cool completely before you ice it and spread fondant over it or else you will end up with a sticky mess.
If you want to change the flavor of your fondant, you can mix in extracts of your choice.
Read additional tips and variations above.
Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days but the fondant decorations may become sticky from the moisture in the fridge. You can leave it out at room temperature 3-5 hours.

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