Fondant, the edible play-doh

I had never used fondant before, so I decided to buy a box from Wal-Mart and give it a try. I absolutely love it! It's just like play-doh, except you can color it any way you want and eat it when your design doesn't come out how you wanted it to! Where has this been all of my life!?! I haven't made anything too difficult yet, mainly just cutting things with cooking cutters and doing some molds (I'll show more of this later!). The fondant doesn't have much of a taste to it, it reminds me off that bubble tape gum we use to buy as kids. I'm wanting to cover a whole cake with it, but I haven't had a reason to yet! Anyways, I made these cupcakes for our church homecoming in the middle of Sept. Most of them are made from those candy fruit jelly slices (ex: http://www.candywarehouse.com/brachsslices.html). I just rolled them out with sugar, to keep them from sticking, and cut them into shapes.

I also wanted to try out a purse cake. Some of my nieces have birthdays coming up, so I thought I would give it a try in case I decided to do it for one of them. Next time I'd like to cover the whole thing with fondant and give it some cool details. It's butter cream icing with fondant dots and a twizler handle.