Fondant icing novice, I need cake help

[Bumperlicioso]

DD2 is 4 this month, and I have managed to narrow her down to a Toy Story cake. I was thinking of something a bit like this. We have a bunch of figures around and I could make a large sponge base and use a loaf tin for the bed but I have never used fondant icing before. How do I colour it it, roll it successfully and attach it?

What would I use to make the bedstead?

Ganache is just chocolate melted into cream and then left to harden.

Much messier that butter cream but very yummy. If you ever have a choc cake to cover it is the best option IMO. You can just pour it on and it smooths itself our.

how are you with royal icing?

you could print off the words you want to do, put them in a plastic sleeve (for a clip file) and Ice directly over the top, leave to dry then lift onto the cake

Never tried royal.

How do you make it? The recipe in my book scared me :)

And what do you use to ice it on? I have some squeezy bottles with narrow nozzles ... Will they do?

not tried those, I use piping bags.

Bumper

I've put 2 pics up on my profile of a very simple bed cake that I did a few years ago. The stripes on the duvet didn't really work but other than that it came out ok. Obv you wouldn't need the teddy :)