I hope it helps the next time you head to a bakery to commission a work of art! What is Fondant? A skilled artist can use fondant to make an amazing cake that people will be talking about for ages. With a skilled decorator, fondant easily becomes whatever you can imagine, from a demure rose to an orc with a sword. Or worse yet, you brush up against it and now your outfit is ruined.
Options are endless: Like I mentioned above, fondant can be almost literally anything you can imagine. Want zombies chasing survivors around your second tier for your Halloween cake?
Do you envision a Christmas cake with Santa, your uncle Jim, and your brother pounding brewskis on the beach? Quirky or creative people can have the ultimate edible decoration to any party they decide to throw. Yes, fodant can taste really good. Sadly, lots of bakeries have deemed the good-tasting fondant as "too expensive" so they use the super cheap, crappy disgusting stuff on their cakes, thereby conditioning the public that fondant is "gross" and justifying not bothering with the good stuff because they say nobody eats it.
If you make it or you spend the money on the really good fondant, like Carma's Massa Ticino, it does get eaten and requested. If you buy Satin Ice like almost everyone else it gets thrown away. I have very strong opinions about this matter - especially since I just did a bridal show where my table was overrun by people all claiming my display cakes, all covered in Massa Ticino, smelled heavenly and they wanted to eat them. That would never happen with Satain Ice or Wilton.
Dang straight FS. The crappy fondant has ruined it for those of us that use truly delicious stuff. I agree with FromScratchSF!!! We would never use Wilton fondant on our cakes, it's foul. Fondarific tastes amazing, but it is pricey, and you would have to pass that cost on to the customer. We actually recently had a consultation where the bride said the last cake person they met with gave her the line about "everyone peels off the fondant, so it's ok that it tastes nasty.
It's not expensive, nor is it hard to make your own. I love and hate hearing this when I'm meeting with someone. It's one more thing that reassures me that I'm pretty much the only one in my area that gives a rat's behind about total quality. I don't necessarily think it's "sad" that other bakeries pursue different competitive advantages.
If you are having trouble distinguishing yourself from the competition and need something to help you stand out, paying the premium for great-tasting fondant is one way to go assuming your target market will pay for it. To me, fondant flavor is more of a nice-to-have as opposed to a core advantage, but it can be a powerful differentiator if combined with the use of other premium ingredients. We actually looked into fondarific but couldn't use it because it contains dairy and is not vegan, besides the fact that it was too expensive for our target market.
At least that's all it would "cost" me if I used Satin Ice. Me, I prefer to dedicate all the up-charge and mine is only a buck to a quality product that someone might actually want to eat. Jason, your market is totally different since you go after cakes for people with dietary restrictions, but I just wanted to point out, as I'm sure you know, that no fondant will be vegan.
It all has gelatin in it. Satin Ice fondant is vegan and does not contain gelatin. I actually didn't know that OP, also keep in mind that the thickness of your fondant matters. I know some people are very talented and they can roll it super thin so it's not even noticeable.
I'm not a fondant decorator meaning I don't cover cakes in fondant but I do use it occasionally for some decorations. I use Wilton for stuff that dries rock hard so I know no one will eat it LOL , and I also use it to cover cake boards. I had to order a small bucket of black Satin Ice a while back and it smelled really good. But some of the decorations had elephant skin which I've heard is common with SI these days. I never did taste any because I have an aversion to eating dark colored BC or fondant.
Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Featured Video. The taste and thick texture of fondant can be a bit intense for the average palette. If you want your wedding cake to be a unique shape, resemble a sculptural work of art, or be adorned with sugar flowers or other three-dimensional designs, know that fondant will likely be a necessary part of the design.
The same holds true for an outdoor wedding : if your cake will be exposed to the elements for several hours, a fondant coating will keep it from getting droopy or losing its shape ahead of your big cake-cutting moment.
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