The art of the sailboat

Today, Jenn and I spent 5 hours making fondant sailboats and tomorrow we will spend another 2 hours assembling them.  I think I have spent more time this week testing cupcake recipes and practicing rolling fondant than actually looking for a job.  I am also starting to believe that the sugar is starting to get to my head a little bit.

Little tiny boats



I think it is safe to say that after tomorrow, neither Jenn nor I will be itching to make cupcakes anytime soon.  The fondant sailboats, however are a different story.

Fondant is a magical ingredient and one neither one of us has ever tried to play with, though oddly enough, we both love to eat.  So last week, Jenn bought some and we had an afternoon of "Let's see what we can do with this stuff", one of the many new activities that we have liked to do throughout our unemployment.  Turns out working with fondant is awesome.  When you start working it with your hands, it starts to get soft like silly putty and anything is possible to make.  Well, so far boats are possible to make.  And we made them with the pasta machine.  Yup, we rolled it through like, well pasta, since that is exactly what the texture and consistency is like.  We did hit a bit of a snag when we found out the largest setting for the pasta maker still made the fondant too thin to thread a toothpick through, but we quickly realized that just doubling up the shapes made perfect little boats hulls.  So double 'em up we did.

Little tiny boat hulls

Next came the sails, and those were the more challenging part of the project, since we had to freehand the rolling.  Neither one of us is an ace at rolling things to a nice even consistency, but we did our best and then cut out little triangles and stuck a toothpick through them- voila!  Sails.




Little tiny sails

 Tomorrow I will post another picture of the finished cupcakes unless Jenn and I, in a sugar induced haze, just go nuts and start throwing them at each other before we make it to the party.  Keep your fingers crossed.

-Jenny