Liquid fondant icing - where can I buy it?

[Slubberdegullion]

I bought Peggy Porchen's Chic Cakes book yesterday. Lordy it is divine and I want to have a stab at doing some petit fours for my dinner party kitchen supper this w/e.

She says in the back that she buys her liquid fondant rather than making it, and having googled how to make it and as I have no thermometer or mixer with a paddle I would really like to buy some.

But where? Google is being singularly unhelpful.

Squires Kitchen have some here.

Or here if you don't want the fruit flavours.

Excellent, thanks very much P&L.

As you are here, do you know how she cuts the cakes widthways (horizonal like) so she can have 3 layers of filling inside? Is it carefully with a big sharp knife or is there an implement.

I do like a nice new implement.

There is an implement -- I have one... erm... somewhere...

Called a Cake leveller but, as the picture shows, you can use it to cut the cake into layers, too.

Marvellous

Now do I or do I not buy a £21 rolling pin?

You may find this Bakerella blog entry and the veganyumyum tutorial that she references useful, by the way.

One can never have two many rolling pins...

You can also try Blue Ribbon.

I have ordered from them, and the shipped abroad. So now I can make all the English cakes and cupcakes that my kids want for their birthdays and other little parties.

Oh wow that tutorial is excellent. Don't they look fab. I have a little vision of just casually placing a plate of the petit fours on the table after pudding to go with the coffee and then modestly mentioning that they are home made

{pride cometh before a fall}

I wonder if the fondant will be here by saturday?

I'll check out Blue ribbon too QS, ta