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Pre-made fondant icing

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  • 21-04-2010 4:11pm
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    Greengonzo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    My 6 six year-old has picked out the cake he would like for his birthday. It requires a load of leaves made out of coloured pre-made fondant icing. Any ideas where I might get this in Dublin city centre?

    Thanks


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    DreamC
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭DreamC


    You could colour white icing yourself with food colours. I don't think you will get a great variety of ready-made coloured fondants. Check on-line shops. The selection is great and it would be cheaper than buying here (even with postal charges). http://www.design-a-cake.co.uk/ Delivery takes only a couple of days and you can track it on-line too. Good luck with your cake.


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    Greengonzo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Greengonzo


    Thank you - this is my first attempt at anything other than butter icing! will be stunning or a disaster:eek:


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    Acoshla
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    There's packs in Tesco with 5 different coloured icings, about 100g of each, I think they're Dr. Oetker but I'm not 100% on that. Could be a handy starting point.


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    Magic Monkey
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    Tesco Ready to Roll icing, green food colouring and icing sugar. Knead the colouring into the fondant, add a little icing sugar if it becomes too wet. You can get leaf cutters in Kitchen Complements on Chatham St. Actually, you can get food colouring pastes there too, better than using liquid colouring.


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    Acoshla
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    Sorry, for some reason I thought the OP said multicoloured leaves, so yeah green colouring would be best like MagicMonkey said.


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    Sigma Force
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Sigma Force


    Tesco (well our one anyway) is doing two different sizes of ready roll icing now which is handy. If you can get some apple leaves from a tree or similar safe plant and you could use that as a template for the leaves.
    Or if you Google you should be able to get a printable template if you can't get a cutter. E-bay usually do a good range of cookie cutters.


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    Greengonzo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Greengonzo


    Thank you all for the advice:D


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    Greengonzo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Greengonzo


    Success:-) - bought the Smamrock pre made icing in Dunnes and combined the green gel colouring bought in Kitchen Compliments. Made two different shades for the leaves on my jungle cake then eft them to set overnight.

    The cake looked great.

    Thanks for all the advice


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