Hand painting on fondant is a technique that I just love! While I often paint on fondant in our tutorials for small accents, we’ve never devoted an entire video to painting a design.
I’m happy to show you today how to paint simple, yet beautiful, roses on a cake! If you’ve never painted on fondant before, I hope that you will give it a try. It’s relaxing, this rose design is very forgiving, and in the end you will have a truly special cake.
Enjoy! ;0)
Materials
I am painting on the 6 inch cake that we used in our “How to Cover a Square Cake with Fondant Video”. (Click HERE to see.) The cake is our White Almond Sour Cream (Doctored Mix) recipe, covered with ganache and a layer of Satin Ice fondant.
Artist’s Palette or Plate for mixing colors
Vodka or Lemon Extract (flavoring)
Coloring Gels- I used Americolor Deep Pink, Americolor Bright White, and Americolor Electric Green
Small Paint Brush–Mine is Wilton, which came in a set. I’m using the “00” brush but any small brush is fine. Of course, make sure to designate your brushes as “for cake use only” ;0)
Gum Paste or Fondant with Tylose Powder Kneaded into it– For our Bow.
Notes
The nice thing about hand painting is that no two designs will be the same. You can see if you look at my roses that they are all different, but since the style is similar, it works! Don’t put too much stress on yourself for your roses to look alike or to be perfect. This is your unique design and that’s what will make it special.
There is inspiration everywhere right now since hand painting on cakes, cookies, and even macarons is a popular trend. If you’d like to see a great tutorial on a different style of rose, cookie designer/artist Arty McGoo has a lovely one if you’d like to click HERE!
I can’t wait to see what you all come up with–have fun experimenting!
Great video, as usual. =) I’ve only painted on a cake once– some rosebuds on the top tier of a baby shower cake that I shared with you. I loved it, and want to do more painting. I love the roses that you did on this cake. Thank you for making them so much less intimidating! As always, thanks for all you and Bebe do. <3
Melissa this is mind blowing! Its soooo pretty and i really love the way you did it. The gift package looks amazing. I have to try it. Thanks a lot for this new piece of art.
Thank you ladies. Great job!
Thank you so much Sadia and Luanne!!
My goodness that is absolutely stunning!!! What a great tutorial!
Wow this is soo amazing!this is definitely going to be my moms birthday cake. One question being a Muslim I can’t use any alcohol…what would I substitute for the vodka? Thanks a bunch!:-)
Thanks Parveen!–Could you use lemon extract? It’s a popular alternative. The alcohol in lemon extract also makes the paint dry very quickly. The alcohol evaporates, leaving just the color behind.
As a last resort, you could use water mixed with color, but the concern would be that the paint would not dry nearly as quickly–you’d also want to make sure that your brush isn’t too wet since you are painting on fondant. (I would do a test patch on a piece of fondant first) — Hope this helps!! Glad that you like the cake!
Thanks Stylzies!! :0) I appreciate it! You are going to have to try it ;0)
this is so gorgeous!!! I have wanted to do something like this (painting) for a super long time. You seem to always be the inspiration to push me to new things.
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I love this look! Stunning and yet so simple! Thank-you both for this tutorial, when I first saw the flowers, I thought it was beyond my talents because of the overall intricate detail work but as it turns out (once again) I know I can do this! Just didn’t have a clue as to how until now!
I notice that you use Americolor in all your cakes. Will all other brands work in painting on fondant as long as they are mixed with vodka.
Hi Melissa! After you’ve covered the cake with fondant how long did you have to wait before you started painting on the fondant? Thanks.
Hi Loannah, not long at all. When the fondant feels dry to the touch you are ready to paint.
Beautiful colours!
Hi Melissa,I took ur advice tried painting with Wilton gel colors and just water and it worked like a charm!!! I did have to be careful with how much water I used and gave the colors about 10 mins to dry if I was using another color over it.( helps that I live in a hot country I guess)I’m so exited! Thanks a million!!
Hi Parveen–Thanks for your feedback, I’m so happy to hear it!!
Can you use this method on smooth Buttercream?
Hi Tammy– Yes you can! We have a tutorial on painting on crusting buttercream — Here is the link:
https://www.mycakeschool.com/video-tutorials/painting-on-buttercream-video-field-of-tulips/
The method is the same, you just have to be more careful with the pressure that you use as you paint. The crusted buttercream is going to be more easily dented, so just use a light touch (and practice in advance on a frosted plate). ;0)
Fabulous