Fondant tastes like evil.
It has the texture of Play-do and tastes like sweetened rubber.
This sort of thing annoys me. There are real methods of decorating cakes that keep it edible. If we’re going to do fakeouts like this, just make a fake cake out of paper mache and plywood and then serve everyone slices of grocery store sheet cake.
The idea that you have to tear off the outer layer of your wedding cake before serving it to keep it from tasting like ass sure isn’t much of a selling point.
If it’s a fading fad, thank God for it going away.
You’re not kidding me! Although I think that most people have come to that conclusion themselves and stopped using the fondant. Typically, when they ask for advice (and we only give it when solicited) we tell them to avoid the fondant and go for the buttercream, as it typically tastes yummy!
Agreed…but with Cake Chef Duff decorating endless cakes on the Food Network with fondant, everyone jumped on the bandwagon. I think enough people went to a fondant cake wedding and either saw the carcass of the scalped cake or were served a plate of nasty and thought…“um, I don’t think so”. Seriously, a truly great cake decorator can do almost anything with buttercream (almost). I mainly see fondant now with cakes that need to look like something other than a cake (and that is rare). Also, a lot of my clients have become very price sensitive, and fondant cakes tend to be a bit pricier…thus they have disappeared from the wedding market here.
I have no respect for cake “artists” who major in fondant. So you can make stuff out of play-doh. Woopie for you. Can I see someone blow some sugar, please?
Buttercream can achieve the same smooth, flawless look if you let it air-dry for about fifteen minutes then carefully pat at it with a sheet of paper. It was the first thing we were taught in the cake decorating class I took.
You’re not kidding Sattua. I once caught the last half hour of some show on PBS where these people were participating in some contest to win a particular French pastry honor, and they were doing things with sugar that I never thought possible.
So they were in Thailand?