I love love love fall, the colorful leaves which are turning beautifully in our area, and of course all the wonderful seasonal fruits and foods.
I am showing you this “gourd-eous” centerpiece. Wouldn’t you love to show this off at your holiday table? This pumpkin cake is super yummy and perfectly accented with fondant leaves cut using your Cricut Cake Machine. Placed around the pumpkin are some apples and fruits, so you can please those with less of a sweet tooth and those who like to end their meal with a sweet treat.
And the kids will LOVE it too, in fact, mine were clamoring over the cake before I had it finished!!
You can create these varigated leaves using several colors of fondant. First, I colored several pieces of fondant with Autumn colors. Next, I grouped several different colors next to each other on my Cricut Cake mat.
After this, I rolled the dough out, creating a single piece.
Now you are ready to place the piece in the machine for cutting.
Continue using the same dough, picking it up after cutting, then adding more bits of the solid colored fondant to it, and then re-rolling and cutting again.
This is what the leaves will look like, using the blended fondant.
To create the cake, I baked two cakes in a bundt pan, turned the bottom cake upside down, and then placed the second cake on top.
I tinted icing a light orange, and then covered my cake, creating the pumpkin shape.
Cricut Machines Used: Cricut Cake, Gypsy (use Gypsy to hide center cut in oak leaf)
Cricut Cartridges Used: Create a Critter (Maple leaf cut at 3.0 and 3.59 inches), Doodlecharms (Oak leaf cut at 3.69 inches)
Other Supplies: Fondant