HOW TO MAKE A FONDANT TREASURE CHEST

This week I will be making my nephews birthday cake! A pirate ship! I’m getting a head start on some of the little details.

- Take your colored fondant (i used brown) & shape it into a square. I used 2 cake smoothers to shape it.

- Take another piece of fondant and roll it to be a fat oval w/ your hands & then flatten what would be the bottom & both sides. Leave the top round. This piece will serve as the top of the chest.

- Carefully cut out a squarish hole in the bottom part of the chest. This doesn’t have to be perfect, no one will see it.

- I used a fondant tool to then make marks in both pieces to give the effect of “wood”

- Then I took strips of black and placed them on the pieces. I also gave the black fondant a print to give it a more fabric/leather look prior to cutting the strips.

- Lastly I added little brown dots & took a separate piece of fondant to add key hole (to make a key hole: use the end part of a paint brush to smooth a hole in the fondant & then a more pointer tool to make a line/rectangle, this should give your chest a more realistic look)

The gold coins I made in advance using gold luster dust and the map I just put together to add to the cake too.