Fondant covered cake 翻糖蛋糕 (拜天公)

While i am still compiling all the entries sent to me during CNY (because i have no time sitting in front of the computer for past 2 weeks ^_^), let me share my 1st fondant covered caked first.
Every CNY day 9 when "Pai Tin Kong (a praying ceremony to God for Hokkien peoples) , i am sure bake a cake and bring back to my mom's place to Pai Tin Kong together..This year, in order to make the butter cake look nicer, i covered it with fondant and this was my 1st cake covered with fondant..

First, i baked a marble butter cake using an old recipe, check recipe here.

After checked few youtube videos, i was very braved and tried out my first cake that covered with fondant..And it is not as difficult to handle as i expected..
I did not apply a layer of buttercream before cover with fondant (feel lazy to make the buttercream, hehehe)..

trim the excess gam paste using a pizza cutter..

you can just brush water on the fondant and you can easily stick it on the fondant base, but remember not to brush water on the whole fondant base, because water will not dry at those area without placing with fondant..This was happened to my cake, i simply brush water on a large part of fondant base, and stick the flower fondants, but later realized that those area without placing with fondant still wet and can not dry up.

my daughter helping me on the wording using gum paste

we also made mandarin oranges and "chin yen bao"

why not next CNY you also make one ? ^_^  ^_^

I am submitting this post to Chinese New Year Delights 2013 hosted by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover