Hi IreneL!
I used a combination of precolored fondant and fondant I colored myself for the wood and leaves. For the leaves, I just tinted white fondant different autumnal colors (with Wilton paste food colors) and then mixed a couple together and rolled them out. The key is to not mix them so much that the different colors totally blend together since you want to see the differences. I learned this through trial and error ;o) For the wood, I started with chocolate fondant and then tinted some a shade lighter and some a few shades darker. I mixed them together and rolled it out (you want to end up with kind of a swirled effect). Then I made line and ‘hole’ impressions in the “wood’ and went over them with a food safe dark brown marker. I haven’t been doing this very long so I don’t have much experience with fondant painting yet and for a small cake like this one (it was two 6 inch rounds) it was easy and fast to color the fondant.
P.S. I took the cake to a get together last night and people really liked the decorations but also LOVED Rose’s cake and frosting. Woo hoo!
. Did you paint the wood and the leaves, or did you use fondant that was already colored? If you did paint, did you just use food coloring straight, or diluted it with something? Thank you!
