Viva la Pizza! More fun with fondant.

It took Aerie a little while to decide what she wanted to bake this week. We are going to be making a wedding cake next weekend for some friends, so she decided to make something just fun. Suddenly, it came to her...PIZZA!
Thus began the quest to make a pizza cake. Naturally, we had to use fondant (it is Aerie's favorite thing, and Dad's too probably). For the cake we went with the classic Sicilian style Party Rainbow Chip. After baking it into a couple of 9 inch rounds, and cooling we spread on the secret recipe sauce (buttercream frosting with a little extra milk to make it spread easier).

Next we made the different colors of fondant toppings. One tiny drop of yellow for the cheese, quite a bit of red for the pepperoni, medium amounts of green for the peppers, and a little cocoa powder for the mushrooms.
For the cheese, we used a pizza cutter to cut thin strips of pale yellow fondant which were then added to the pizza.
After the cheese we added mushrooms, which were half circles with hand cut stems.

Next the green peppers...
And finally, the pepperoni's which ironically were cut out with the top of the pepper shaker, since it was the right size circle for our pizza.


And now time to dig in!