On Wednesday my family celebrated my little brother's 26th birthday at Citizen's Bank Park watching the Phils sweep the Atlanta Braves. Whooohoo!! When it comes to family events my mom and I often split the baking duties; she makes her yummy cakes and I decorate them. Years ago, we took a cake decorating class at A.C. Moore. It was a brief class on learning how to use fondant. If you aren't familiar with the product it's basically like edible play doh...though if you asked me when I was a kid, I thought all play doh was edible. It is not. It is salty and disgusting, children don't try it. Fondant however is like eating a sugary taffy. There is designer fondant that apparently tastes like tootsie rolls and there is a recipe for marshmallow fondant somewhere in my files- Note to self: try these in the future. Anyway, in the pictures above and below you can see the phils hat, baseball, and jersey are all made from the fondant. I also used Wilton spray food coloring for the sides of the cake. Easy to use, great coverage, but WARNING it gets everywhere! I didn't realize it until
I went to wipe down my kitchen and was getting lots of red dye. Ugh, What a pain! I do recommend the product, but in the future I will put down lots of newspaper first. 
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