How to make buttercream frosting look like fondant/Como hacer que el glaseado de mantequilla parezca "fondant"

My daughter's 30th birthday is today. With so many things to do and still recovering from a fall in which I hurt my knee really bad, I thought and thought of a cake that my daughter would like and that didn't requiere too much work. Well, I decided that I was going to create a design, that resembled the card and the gift bag I had previously made. Fondant???... No way... not with my knee hurting the way it is and with the temperature being sooooo hot. I love the look, taste and consistency of any kind of fondant  but, I was going to frost this cake with buttercream !!! LOL. I remembered a trick, that some years ago, somebody told me to make a cake that was covered with buttercream look like it was fondant. So, I baked my two oval cake layers, filled them and crumb coated them with buttercream. The recipe I used for the buttercream was Wilton's buttercream:

**** El dia del cuplea~nos de mi hija es hoy. Con tantas cosas que hacer y aun recuperandome de una caida en la que me lastime la rodilla, pense y pense en el bizcocho (pastel, torta) que le haria a mi hija, que fuera simple y que a ella le gustara. Bueno, pense entonces que le haria un bizcocho, que semejara la tarjeta y la bolsa de regalo que ya le habia hecho. Entonces recorde, un truco que hace tiempo me habian dicho que podia hacer que el glaseado de mantequilla, semejara el "fondant". Hornee mi pastel ovalado y prepare la receta de Wilton de glaseado de mantequilla:
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• 1/2 cup of butter (1 stick) / 1/2 taza mantequilla
• 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening (Crisco) / 1/2 taza manteca vegetal (Crisco)
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 4 cups powdered sugar / 4 tazas azucar en polvo
• 2 tbsp milk ( I substituted this for orange juice) / 2 tbsp leche (yo las sustitui por jugo naranja)

Cream together butter + shortening and add vanilla. Add powdered sugar, one cup at the time and beat. Add milk and beat.
**** Bata juntos la mantequilla y la manteca vegetal, a~nada la vainilla. Agregue la azucar en polvo taza a taza y bata. A~nada la leche y bata.

To achieve the "fondant look", do this:
**** Para obtener un glaseado parecido al "fondant":

• frost your cake smooth with buttercream. / Cubra su paste con el glaseao lo mas liso posible.
• Wait untill the buttercream sets and crust. / Espere a que el glaseado se seque.
• Cut a piece of PAPER TOWEL that has "quilted designs" / Corte un pedazo de PAPEL TOALLA que tenga dise~nos.
• Cover the top of the cake with the paper towel and pat gently. Lift a piece of the paper towel just to peek under and make sure it is "imprinting or embossing" well on the buttercream. / Cubra el tope del bizcocho (pastel) con el papel toalla y dele golpecitos suaves con la palma de su mano. Levante un pedacito del papel para ver si la marca de los dise~nos es definida.
• Carefully lift the paper towel off the cake. / Cuidadosamente, levante el papel del bizcocho.
• Repeat procedure on the sides of the cake. / Repita este procedimiento en los lados del pastel.

To decorate the cake I took some shortcuts, and here they are:
Estos "trucos" hacen la decoracio muy rapida:

• Make leaves and stems with: / Haga las hojas y tallos con:  Leaf Green Wilton Decorating Icing , tip #3

• Write the birthday message with: / Escriba el mensaje con:  White Wilton Decorating Icing, tip #3

• Add yellow food coloring to the remainder of the buttercream. Put it in a disposable pastry bag and make the flowers with: / A~nada colorante amarillo al restante del glaseado. Ponga en una manga de repostero y hafa las flores con la duya:  tip #1M

Final product: Cindy's birthday cake; simple, pretty, oh so yummy!... and she loved it!!!!
*** He aqui el producto final: el bizcocho de cumplea~nos de Cindy; simple, lindo y sabroso.. y sobretodo, a ella le encanto!!!

BONUS TIP: After the layers have cooled, poke little holes into the cake with a very thin wooden rod. Pour a light syrup made with equal parts of sugar and water and add a little Brandy (heat untill it boils- let cool) over the cake. ENJOY!!!
**** Despues que sus bizcochos esten frescos, hagale agujeritos por todo el pastel con una varita de madera fina. Prepare un sirop con partes iguales de azucar y agua. ponga a hervir y a~nadale un poco de Brandy. Deje refrescar y vierta sobre los pasteles.