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"  Time to roll up your sleeves and start rolling out the fondant! Cake decorating is no longer only for the professionals, thanks to a new line of products by Chef Duff Goldman, star of The Food Network&amp;#039;s show Ace of Cakes  and founder of Charm City Cakes. Designed in partnership with Gartner Studios,  the offerings include fondant smoothers, food color gels, icing spatulas, and many other tools that help turn an amateur into an ace in a few easy strokes. Our GHRI interns, Hillary Reeves of Fordham University (and part-time employee at Crumbs Bake Shop  and Meredith Popolo of Syracuse University (where she earns extra cash as a caterer) tried out the new products alongside the Ace himself. Here&amp;#039;s what they thought of a few of the goods: Fondant icing, $24.99: The key to any professional-looking cake is the fondant, which creates the smooth canvas for creativity. Sold in two-pound tubs and nine vibrant colors, we especially like the yellow, which tastes like a lemon drop. Microwaving for 30 seconds makes the fondant easier to roll out and blanket your cake.  Cake graffiti, $3.99: Inspired by Duff&amp;#039;s street-graffiti roots, this spray paint is edgy and edible! We saw some impressive applications of the cake graffiti, but it&amp;#039;s hard to master, and can easily result in a runny mess.   Cake tattoos, $11.99: Available in several patterns, like leopard spot and paisley, the tattoos come in precut shapes to fit the top and sides of your cake. Peel them off, stick with a little water (but not too much or the designs will bleed) and voila! a cake that will have your friends asking, &amp;#039;how did you do that? Texture tiles, $3.99: Give your moist cake more texture, in cobblestone, ditzy floral, funky circles or other patterns. Press the textured tiles into the fondant: It doesn&amp;#039;t get much easier. Cake wires, $3.99: A staple of many Duff cakes, the wires add a fun 3-D final touch. The pieces can be difficult to hold in place, but if you bend the bottoms into an &amp;quot;L&amp;quot; and stick them straight into the cake, they&amp;#039;ll sit tight. Colorful balls of fondant skewered on the wires add more flare.  The affordable line is now at Michaels stores  all over the US but take heed: Cakes may look almost too good to eat. For more ideas, see out our test kitchen&amp;#039;s cake-decorating tips. If you&amp;#039;d like to make a sweet treat for dad on his special day, try out our recipe for Father&amp;#039;s Day Shirt Cake.  Make sure you check out the cake Duff made for Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s 125th anniversary. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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