Petit Fours

Another goody for Jennifer's christening, I decided to make some petit fours.

These are the cheating version of the cakes as I used ready made madeira cake loaf (I had enough to do for this christening lol) but you can use any thick baked cake.

What you need:

• Cake, ready made or homemade 
• Fondant icing sugar
• Water
• Gel food colours
• Wire rack

To start, cut out a square shape from your cake, I used a cutter which made 1" square cut, and the cake was about 2" high.

Then comes the hard part, I'm slightly lacking in photos of each stage, basically because it just didn't work for ages.

to prepare, put some baking paper under your wire rack.

Mix the fondant icing sugar with water as directed, and add the gel colour, whichever you are wanting to use.  Pale shades work better.

For your first layer, dip your cut cake in the icing, making sure all sides are covered.  Place on the wire rack and leave to set.

For the next layers, make a very thick icing and slowly pour the icing on top of the cake, using a spoon to direct the icing to cover all sides except the base.

 If the icing is too runny your layer will be too thin, if its too thick it wont make it to the bottom of the cake, it takes a bit of trail and error to get it right.

Move from cake to cake covering it as best you can, and don't worry about the drippings.  Once you are out of icing, move the rack onto a clean piece of baking paper, and reuse the dripped icing, covering each cake again.

For me, i did 3 or 4 of each colour so made small amounts of icing and managed around 5 reuses of the icing on each colour.

I left it to dry completely over night then repeated the next day until there was a nice thick layer of icing all around the cake (except the base) and no un-iced cake could be seen.

Yes its a long process, yes its a lot of work, but yes they looked amazing and people all asked where I'd bought them from, so they must have impressed.


To decorate I used melted white chocolate drizzled across the cakes and a single sugarcraft  flower or leaf to finish them off.

And now this is them presented on the day with my princess cakes.