Fondant Anyone?

**IrregularPulse** · 03-03-2009, 01:07 PM

Just curious as to people's opinions of this Modern cake designing "stuff"

I'd always heard that it's disgusting and the one time I'd previously tried it it definitely was. I just racked it up being strictly for decoration. Which i thought what a waste. Take a perfectly good cake and make it taste bad for decoration, or the other hand you can make some pretty awesome cakes.

Well a guy from work was showing us some cakes his wife does for a side business. I'd mentioned my opinion of Fondant. So today he brought me in a peice of a cake she made last night with fondant so I could taste it.

It's not bad. The flavor is actualyl pretty good. The texture is a little weird and off from cake icing, but the flavor is actually very good. Just basically like a normal cake icing.

Anyways, Just curious as to anyone else's opinions on this and also thought maybe I could persuade someone into giving it another try if they had the same initial experiences with it that I did.

**dataz722** · 03-03-2009, 02:30 PM

Depends on how much sugar is it in really. I have had some that just tasted like dough and other that actually tasted pretty good. I think it looks nice but I will take a buttercream frosting over it anyday.

**Melana** · 03-03-2009, 02:33 PM

I have heard of people putting fondant over a buttercream base...

ohiobrewtus · 03-03-2009, 02:45 PM

I have no idea what you're even talking about - and I like it that way.

**dataz722** · 03-03-2009, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Melana

I have heard of people putting fondant over a buttercream base...

I've had that too and they usually use the low sugar doughy tasting fondant so it inst over extremly sweet with the frosting.

slimer · 03-03-2009, 02:50 PM

My mom runs a baking school and I have no problems with using fondant. You just need to have a "base" of regular frosting underneath it.

My favorite is a layer of pudding, a layer of strawberries, a layer of whipped cream and fondant on top.

spitfire · 03-03-2009, 03:08 PM

Does anybody have a recipe for fondant that they use? My wife was watching Ace of Cakes on day and I said I can make a cake like that...lol she said yeah right.....It would cool to make one someday when she was out of the house and surprise her when she got home.

slimer · 03-03-2009, 03:14 PM

There's mix at the store. My mom works for Wilton and theirs is decent. You can get it at Michaels, Walmart, etc.

Laurel · 03-03-2009, 04:08 PM

Fondant is fine providing you want a seamless looking cake. It's something that you can't easily achieve any other way, so why not take advantage of it. You can always remove the fondant if you don't like it.

spitfire · 03-03-2009, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by slimer

There's mix at the store. My mom works for Wilton and theirs is decent. You can get it at Michaels, Walmart, etc.

Thanks for the info.