Humpty Dumpty cake- fondant on a chocolate egg?

[JessieMcJessie]

My son-to-be 2 year old DS is obsessed by “Hoty” Dumpty so I thought it might be fun to make him a Humpty cake. Most of the online tutorials make Humpty from solid fondant but I found that, bizarrely Thornton’s sell white chocolate Easter eggs online all year round. So my idea is to use one of them as Humpty but then dress him up using coloured fondant icing (that packet Renshaw stuff). I’m quite good at craft but a cake decorating novice - does anyone have any tips on how to stick the fondant to the chocolate? The wall is going to be a rectangular cake covered in white fondant with red brick shapes on it. I am not going to attempt any horses or soldiers!

Fondant is not my strong point but for sticking it to cakes I have successfully used apricot jam and or lemon curd before, don't know if this would stick it to chocolate. If you do want horses or soldiers people who are good at fondant make brilliant ones and sell on eBay quite cheaply, I've bought all sorts of animals etc before.

I'd think you might be better decorating it with melted white chocolate and food colouring or candy melts

Look up a recipe for sugar syrup for cake decorators. That will definitely do it but plain water will probably work too - fondant gets very sticky if you add a bit of water.

Water will work well. A new small paintbrush with water should do the job no problem.

Would melted chocolate work?

You can get edible glue from cake decorating suppliers. That might work, but the problem is the shiny/slidy surface of the chocolate meeting the soft surface of the icing.

If the glue doesn't work then I'd try candy melts instead of fondant. If you do, adding a tiny bit of Trex (veg fat) when they're melted makes the mixture a bit thinner & easier to work with.

I'd make royal icing to stick it all together, 1 med egg white and 100g sieved icing sugar whisked into soft peaks. It dries hard and is a great glue for cake decorating :)

Thanks for all the tips everyone! Off to google candy melts!

He turned out pretty well in the end! So we’ll in fact that my DS got a bit traumatised when we started to cut him up!

PS in the end I just used a brush to wet the fondant and it stuck on really well. It was much softer and stickier to work with than I expected though, couldn’t really roll out biggish pieces without them sticking to the surface/greaseproof paper and being impossible to pick up, so the bottom half had to be done in lots of smaller patches smoothed together.

It looks amazing! Your DS must’ve been thrilled (we’ll ignore the traumatised bit)

Thanks! I have a very sweet video of him saying “wow! Wow! Humpty!” and then singing the song and throwing himself on the floor .

That looks brilliant!
Top tip for next time - roll out your fondant between 2 sheets of cling film. It can't stick to your rolling pin or the worktop, you don't need to smother it in icing sugar to stop it sticking, and when you've rolled it out, you can peel off the top layer of cling film, and, if necessary, lift the whole lot up, bottom layer of cling and all, and slap it on your cake without it breaking apart.

Genius Hoosh, I trawled YouTube for tips and nobody suggested that. Thanks!