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If you want to make a light to dark gradation
on your fondant decorations, then you're
going to love this trick on how to create ombre fondant.
It's going to take all the guesswork out
of knowing how much color you need to add
to get the right variations.
So I actually have two colors that I'm
going to be working with.
I'm going to start by taking my white fondant.
Make sure it's kneaded first, and I'm going to roll this out.
I'm going to dust my surface first with a little cornstarch
so the fondant doesn't stick.
I'm using my fondant roller with the purple guide rings.
This is going to help me to achieve even
thickness to an 1/8 of an inch.
Depending on how big your project
is that will determine how big you
want to create your rectangle.
If you're going to need more fondant,
make a larger rectangle.
Or if you want a lot more shading,
you're going to want a larger rectangle.
Now I'm going to take a paring knife--
you could also use a pizza cutter--
and I'm going to cut my rectangle.
Take away the excess.
And I'm going to do the same thing for my colored fondant.
Now that I've got my two rectangles
I'm going to take my knife and do a diagonal cut,
so I end up with two triangles.
Next, I'm going to take one triangle out and swap it
with the other.
Now one set of triangles, I'm going
to put aside and cover it up and we'll come back to that later.
I'm just going to turn my triangles this way
and form a new rectangle.
From here I'm going to cut six strips,
and I'm going to start in the center.
Since I have an even number and I'm just eyeballing this,
it'll be easier if I start in the center and do my cut
and then take each side and do two more cuts.
Depending on how many colors you want or how many shades,
that will determine how many strips you're going to cut.
Now I've got my six strips, and I'm going to take each strip
and roll it into a ball so the color gets mixed.
So I've taken all six of my strips,
and I've mixed up the color rolled of the balls.
And as you can see, I now have eight balls.
These are the six from the strips that I cut,
and the other two came from the triangles that I had set aside.
The white one is from the White triangle,
and then the darkest shade is from the colored triangle.
Now what you can do is take each ball,
roll it out, and do cut outs with them.
I've made these cut outs ahead of time.
They've been sitting for about a half hour.
So now we can actually attach them to our cake.
So I finished placing all of my heart cut outs.
This is just one design that I've come up with.
You can actually place your hearts randomly.
You could do a vertical line if you want.
You've got a lot of possibilities
with the ombre effect.
Have fun doing this technique.
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