This was the finished product. I was happy it at least resembled something even if it wasn't as smooth and awesome as I had imagined it would be.
To celebrate a co-worker (our resident promoter of Apple products), I attempted to make an iPad cake last night. In my mind, it wouldn’t be too difficult to make out of marshmallow fondant.
This was my kitchen counter when I finally finished. Quite the mess.
Well, I don’t make fondant all that often, so I don’t really remember any tricks from time to time. In the end, I had three complete fails and had destroyed my layer of “dirty icing” underneath. And I didn’t have another jar of icing to even patch it up and have it pass for a normal-looking cake (and no patience to make homemade frosting at that point). I did, however, have a gigantic mess.
I finally took a break and refrigerated my fondant to make it a little harder. When I came back for my last-ditch effort, it sort of worked. I had used up most of my white fondant so I used the white icing border as the iPad border and just placed a fondant screen and logo on it. Not exactly what I envisioned, but at least it managed to make it through.
For the cake itself, I tried a dark chocolate cake from MarthaStewart.com. I was making it in a 13X9 pan instead of two round pans, so I thought mine might have to bake a bit longer. However, I checked it 10 minutes before the given baking time, and it was already done. Yikes! In fact, when I tasted it today, I thought it was almost a bit overdone. It got a bit dry for my taste, so either that’s how the cake is or was caused by over-baking.
I hope baking night No. 2 for the week will go a little more smoothly.
