Summer Picnic Treats From Fondant

A cake decorated as a picnic scene with fondant hamburger, hot dog, and corn on a checkered tablecloth
Kim Simons
Beginner
Learn how to sculpt miniature picnic foods — hamburger, hot dog, and corn on the cob — out of fondant and display them on a plaid tablecloth cake.

Supply List

Cake
Fondant: white, red, yellow, orange, dark brown, and black
Paper Potion
Edible paper
Wafer paper: green
Small rolling pin
Silicone mat
Small straw
Edible colors
Edible powdered colors
Stencil: plaid
Paint brushes
Cake tools
Small precision knife
Piping gel
Water
Paper towels
Cornstarch

Instructions

  • Make the top and bottom hamburger bun out of white fondant. Add texture with a clay tool.
    Hands shaping white fondant into a hamburger bun on a green mat.
  • Mix fondant colors to make your choice of color for the hamburger patty. Mold to create the shape, and texture with a clay tool.
  • Stack patty on bottom bun.
  • Roll out red fondant. Cut to look like tomato slices. Place on top of patty.
    Fondant hamburger with bun, patty, and tomato slices on a green surface.
  • Tear off a piece of green wafer paper. Spray with Paper Potion. Scrunch it up to look like lettuce and place it on top of the tomatoes.
  • Add the top bun.
    Hands holding a finished fondant hamburger with lettuce and top bun.
  • Roll out white fondant and shape like a hot dog bun. Slice it lengthwise with a small precision knife (but not all the way through), then fold it open.
  • Mix fondant colors to make your choice of color for the hot dog. Mold to create the shape, and texture with a small precision knife and a clay tool.
    Fondant hot dog with a scored sausage in a white bun on a green background.
  • Roll out yellow fondant thinly for mustard and add to hot dog.
  • Roll out yellow fondant and shape like a corn cob.
  • Add kernels using the end of a small straw. Texture with a clay tool.
    Hand texturing a yellow fondant corn cob with a wooden stick.
  • Spray green wafer paper with Paper Potion and wrap around corn like a husk.
  • Use a dry brush to add color and shadows to your pieces with edible powdered colors.
    Hand dry brushing edible powdered color onto fondant pieces.
  • Place a plaid stencil over edible paper. Paint with a red edible color.
    Hand painting red edible color through a plaid stencil onto edible paper.
  • Spray the back of the edible paper with Paper Potion. Drape it over a cake of your choice. Add the burger, hot dog, and corn to the top.

Products Used

• Icing Images: Paper Potion, SmArt Sheets (edible paper), Wafer paper
• Satin Ice: Fondant
• Artisan Accents: Edible color (red)
• The Sugar Art: Edible powdered colors (brown and black)