I will be baking the brownies in cupcake cups and covering them with a cream cheese frosting. Then I will attempt to cover them in fondant (my very first time working with it)...
the raw sketching...
as you can see, i need a small circle for the white of the eyes... and a even smaller one for the iris. I bought some circular cutters but none small enough for the iris. I figured I probably had to manually cut out the iris which is going to be a pain.
So I was sitting at work and thinking, there's got to be an easier way. I need to make these tonight or tomorrow so I can't afford to buy something online and ship it. There's not that many places that sell cake decorating tools and I'm not sure where to find this anyhow.
Then a light bulb went off... What if I made my own? I can laminate a sheet of paper and tape it together. It's not perfect but at least I won't be cutting out small irises until I go insane.
So in my first attempt, I laminated a card stock because I figured it would be better. This may have been true if I was making a larger circle but it bent when I tried to make a small circle. So my second attempt I used regular paper and it was much better.
it looks crappy but it should cut the fondant just fine.
it won't be a perfect circle but i think it'll do fine.
**UPDATE**
so... the cheap fondant cutter did what I expected it to. Work a couple of times and then pretty much become useless. It's much more worth it to buy metal cutters. It'll last longer and will cut more precisely.
I had to figure out how to make fondant stick to other fondant but I think it turned out okay for my first time!
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