Up In The Clouds Cake

The Up In The Clouds Cake, along with the entire Soar Experience, will take you and your guests up, up, and away into billows of white puffs and sweet desserts. This fondant cake is adorned with modeling chocolate hot air balloons and clouds that not only look great, but taste amazing as well. Inside, we chose chocolate cake with a marshmallow filling that few can resist. And for a birthday, simply throw a chocolate number on top to make sure the birthday boy or birthday girl can get the full "Soar Into Another Year" experience.

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Recipes

For The Up In The Clouds Cake

Chocolate Cake

Toasted Marshmallow Filling

Chocolate Ganache Frosting

Modeling Chocolate

Tools

Used For The Up In The Clouds Cake

Ateco Stainless Steel Cake Knife

The perfect knife to get even layers of cake

Ateco Cake Stand

For easy frosting and smoothing

Stainless Steel Scraper

For flawless frosting

Small Angled Spatula

For a sharp top edge of frosting

6-Inch Cake Boards

To build the cake on

Albert Uster Massa Americana Fondant

Premium Swiss fondant

PVC Pipe/Rolling Pin

For rolling fondant

Wilton Candy Melts

Pink, yellow, blue, and white

X-Acto Knife

Straight and clean cuts

Template for Hot Air Balloon and Clouds

Find & print a template of your choice

Tips

For The Up In The Clouds Cake

Covering a cake in fondant is NOT one of the easiest techniques to master. But the great thing about the Up In The Clouds Cake, is that you can cover your mistakes with a cloud border, mini clouds, or a hot air balloon. You can still practice perfecting your technique, knowing that you have some room to hide any mistakes

If you don't like to use modeling chocolate, you can stick with fondant for your decorations. We suggest adding some tylose powder to the fondant to decrease drying time

Finding templates online can be easy. Once found, transfer the pattern onto your fondant or modeling chocolate with an X-acto knife. Beware what surface you're cutting on as the X-Acto knife is very sharp

For your modeling chocolate questions, visit Jessicakes where you'll find commonly asked questions already answered. Or watch her in action while she teaches her famous wax transfer method on Craftsy. This class was a game changer in how we decorated our fondant cakes

Presentation

Ideas For The Up In The Clouds Cake

A simple printable dessert label can go a long way to completing the presentation. We offer free printable dessert labels, along with the rest of the Soar Experience Printables, that you can download here. We recommend using cover weight paper which you can find at Paper-Source. We usually use pure white, but feel free to choose a color that works for you

We used a basic white square cake stand for our Up In The Clouds Cake. Check out Sur La Table, Pottery Barn, or Sarah's Stands for your stand. All offer an assortment of cake stands for you to choose from