Add a personalized touch to any cake with a monogram cake topper. These cake toppers add the finishing touch to wedding cakes, birthday cakes or any occasion that calls for a bit of elegance. In addition to adding decoration to your cake, your homemade cake topper also adds flavor since it is made entirely of candy. Present it to the guest of honor along with a large slice when you serve the cake.
Instructions
1. Draw the letters for your monogram cake topper on a piece of paper. You can also write the monogram using a word processing program and print it. Leave a few inches between each letter and make sure that the monogram is the exact size of your desired cake topper.
2. Draw a 1 inch long spike on the bottom of each letter. This allows you to secure the monogram cake topper to your cake.
3. Fill a resealable sandwich bag with 1 cup of candy melting wafers. Place the sandwich bag in a bowl and leave the bag open. This will allow any steam to escape when you heat the candy.
4. Microwave the candy on high at 10 second intervals for approximately one minute or until the candy is smooth and melted. Gently knead the bag after each interval to avoid creating hot spots and ensure that all of the candy melts evenly.
5. Seal the bag and snip a hole in one of the bottom corners. The hole should be 1/8 inch or less in diameter.
6. Place the monogram drawing from step one on a cookie sheet and cover it with a sheet of wax paper.
7. Squeeze the melted candy through the hole in the bag and trace the monogram drawing. Cover all of the letters and the spikes that you added in step two with a thin layer of candy.
8. Refrigerate the candy monogram for approximately 10 minutes. The candy will harden during this time.
9. Peel the wax paper gently away from the back of your monogram and push the spikes down into the top of a frosted cake to use the cake topper.
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