Before making figures for the cake, you need to prepare a sugar mass for molding.

Fondant for creating flowers and figures should be malleable, so it is easy to work with it, and quickly drying, so you do not spend a lot of time on drying figures.

These are the properties of fondant made from:

• 1 ½ teaspoons of instant gelatin;
• 40 ml water;
• 3 teaspoons of liquid honey or syrup (inverted, glucose or any other);
• 2 teaspoons butter or any other solid fat (margarine, coconut oil);
• 1 teaspoon of liqueur (you can substitute other alcohol);
• 500 g powdered sugar;
• 25 g of corn or potato starch.

Cooking technology:

• Soak gelatin for the time indicated in the instructions for its use.
• Syrup, butter and liquor combine in a saucepan and warm until homogeneous. Then add the swollen gelatine and warm until completely dissolved.
• Sift the powder and starch into a pile, making a funnel in the center. Pour the liquid ingredients into the hole and knead the mass, as if it were an ordinary yeast dough.
• When it is ready, put the mass into a thick bag, greased inside with butter, to force out all the air and leave the mastic to stand for 24 hours at room temperature. After that, you can start modeling.