Fondant Effects: Wood grain

There are plenty of ways that you can manipulate fondant to do near exactly what you want it to do. It can present any color you want and you can give it near any texture you can think of. When making my sushi cake I played around with thoughts of how I could give the cake extra details to make it look more realistic. I wanted the base to be a table, so I looked for a way to make fondant look like a wood table. I found an amazing tutorial on How to Baker and it came out perfect.

 One: Take a large ball of fondant and split it in two equal pieces. Set one half aside and color the other half with brown icing color by kneading small bits of color in until it is the shade of brown that you want.

 Roll the pieces into two long skinny ropes. My counter is fairly small, so I had to make more than one rope.

 Twist the brown rope around the white rope, making sure that some white still shows through.

Roll out the fondant until it is larger than your cake or cake board so that it will cover completely.

 

Cut off the excess with a pizza roller and smooth out with fondant smoother.