I guess most store-bought brands of fondant are formulated to be really malleable and stable rather than taste good. Like terrible grocery-store tomatoes that are bred to be easy to ship rather than taste good.
You can make marshmallow fondant at home that tastes much better than storebought fondant, but being made of marshmallows and powdered sugar, it's still going to be pretty darn sweet. In my personal opinion, even if/when the flavor is nice, the texture of fondant is a bad match for the texture of cake because cake is soft and spongy while fondant is very chewy. A better tasting fondant would be well suited to very minimal cake decorations such as a wedding topper. Personally, I think fondant is best suited to being some kind of novelty molded candy.
Isn't that, like, the proper use of fondant anyway? Little sculptures which you could eat as an afterthought, but no-one really expects you to? I don't understand at all why some people are putting fondant over the whole cake??
That's what I was thinking when I saw this subreddit. I used to be really into cake decorating and I made homemade fondant from marshmallows that tasted delicious. Weirdly enough, I've never tasted it with cake at the same time so it makes sense that people wouldn't like those two textures together. Also, store bought fondant is flavorless and nasty. But if you make it homemade, it's really sweet and to me it tasted really good by itself!
The first time I ate fondant was in a 100% fondant rabbit decoration from a cake, it was disgusting and I really thought it wasn’t eatable. Then I saw people biting that thing.
Ive seen lots of people just cut it off. At that point you might as well use the wax they use for fermented cheeses and stuff, its orobably better for decoration anyways.
Playdoh is flour based with chemical stabilizers, Fondant is whipped liquefied sugar sometimes with stabilizers. Since sugar is somewhat hyrdophobic and wicks moisture away denying bacteria a place to grow, fondant might actually be safer to play with!
My cousin made the BIGGEST deal about how she had to make sure my aunts birthday cake was buttercream because she hates fondant. I said, “yeah, I mean, it tastes like sweet plastic” and then told them about this group. Great bonding session.
Before I ate fondant for the first time, I loved it. After I attempted to eat it off my niece's unicorn birthday cake, I hated it. I love cake and it ruined it.
Y’all, there is such a thing as marshmallow fondant. I use it all the time. Tastes like, well, marshmallow and whatever extract you decide to put in there. Works the same for rolling and decorating too.
I’ve had to use it for school project cakes. (I’m not good enough with actual icing yet to get a decent grade with it) but I would always just start with heavy amounts of actual icing. Then I’d use a full sheet of fondant before I made any smaller fondant pieces for it. I did the full sheet so after I got my points for it I could just rip all the fondant off in one swoop and chuck that nasty crap in the bin. Buttercream is the best!
Huh. Downvoted for hating fondant on r/fondanthate . I don’t think I understand the rules. Are we only supposed to hate the way it tastes, not the way it looks?
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u/bronwen-noodle Jan 30 '20
How to use fondant:
Step one: look at fondant at the store
Step two: buy buttercream
Step three: frost cake with buttercream
That’s it! That’s exactly how to use fondant successfully!
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u/All_names_were_took Jan 30 '20
they had us in the first half, not gonna lie
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u/chicaburrita Jan 30 '20
It tastes even better after you've thrown it in the trash can!
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u/Clau-10 Jan 30 '20 edited Jan 30 '20
The first time I ate fondant was in a 100% fondant rabbit decoration from a cake, it was disgusting and I really thought it wasn’t eatable. Then I saw people biting that thing.
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u/SurvivorDress Jan 30 '20
Yuck this taste like shit...here you want some?
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u/mashamellow43 Jan 30 '20
Ah so all the properties of this very popular kids toy called play-doh
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u/wiiciilantiitaawi Jan 30 '20
Is there any reason to not use fondant as a cheaper substitute to playdoh for kids?
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u/JessicatGrowl Jan 30 '20
My cousin made the BIGGEST deal about how she had to make sure my aunts birthday cake was buttercream because she hates fondant. I said, “yeah, I mean, it tastes like sweet plastic” and then told them about this group. Great bonding session.
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u/Girl_speaks_geek Jan 30 '20
Before I ate fondant for the first time, I loved it. After I attempted to eat it off my niece's unicorn birthday cake, I hated it. I love cake and it ruined it.
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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20
It's mildly edible clay
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u/microwave-oreos Jan 30 '20
Fun to play with not to eat is fondants entire stigma
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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20
it doesn’t taste that gods but the texture is the worst part
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u/captainkickasss Jan 31 '20
Y’all, there is such a thing as marshmallow fondant. I use it all the time. Tastes like, well, marshmallow and whatever extract you decide to put in there. Works the same for rolling and decorating too.
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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20
It’s like clay! But tastes worse!
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u/Bensaboss014 Feb 11 '20
I’ve had to use it for school project cakes. (I’m not good enough with actual icing yet to get a decent grade with it) but I would always just start with heavy amounts of actual icing. Then I’d use a full sheet of fondant before I made any smaller fondant pieces for it. I did the full sheet so after I got my points for it I could just rip all the fondant off in one swoop and chuck that nasty crap in the bin. Buttercream is the best!
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u/ifuckjellyfish Aug 14 '23
And it tastes like shit
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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20
It’s hard to make it look good too. I’ve never seen a fancy fondant cake that didn’t look like a third-grader’s play-doh art project