Fondant is a brilliant invention in cake decoration. To me it's like transformation in modern technology, from old bulky fat TV monitor into a super slim stylish digital TV. The only difference is fondant has increased the accessibility of cake decoration to unlimited. It does not outdate previous ingredients for decoration which mostly buttercream. What is fondant anyway? Fondant is nothing more than icing sugar and gelatin with other edible components to make it easy to work with. Some brands you can find are Bakels, Fondx, Satin Ice. They come in colors and some people prefer one to the other. Anyway, people still fond of using buttercream (taart) for cake decoration. If I have to choose, taste wise, I like buttercream cake than fondant cake. You can add flavors to buttercream frosting but you definitely cannot (not normally) add flavor to your fondant. Fondant is edible but some people don't want to eat it but I do know kids love it. For the most, fondant purpose is simply decoration. You must be familiar with the selling concept that in order for people to buy your products, you need to buy their eyes first. People can care less with the taste as long as it looks beautiful and fancy. I say I want to buy both, beautiful decoration and great taste.
Fondant is the playdough of cake decorators. If you used to play with playdough when you were kids, you have no trouble at all to deal with this sugar dough. All you need is imagination and right tools. Thats for sure. Not that I have made lots of decoration with fondants, I am just making a point here. You can make anything with fondant, from small balls that joined together to make a princess necklace or beautiful lace to make decorations on princess shoes, to colorful cute imitation or real size flowers, your favorite brand name shoes or purse, all kinds of animals in kids cartoon movies to even making your own image, sculptured on your cakes. You name it, fondant can make all those possible. Fondant has brought up the cake decoration into a whole new level. Working with fondant is fun. But it requires patience and plenty of hours, rollling, molding, shaping and coloring on and on, working with various tools and delicate shapes. If you are a person that choose to stay home cutting newspaper for your scrapbook other than hanging out for a cup of bubble tea with you mates, then you will get along with fondant.
Honestly, I have learnt a lot from many people who generously share their knowledge, either from prints or the internet. I have no baking school background. But internet and books are my gurus. I have some blogs that I like to visit and spend hours watching videos posted in and reading. One of my biggest guru is Rose Levi Beranbaum. You can visit her at http://www.realbakingwithrose.com/. She has enlightened me in many aspects of baking and cake making. Another website I like to visit is Wilton, the biggest cake tools supply in the world. You can reach them at http://www.wilton.com. From this following website you can learn how to use many wilton tools to make lots of beautiful decorations http://www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com. I always amaze when I visit this cake maestro website, Ron Ben Israel. You can enjoy his masterpieces at http://www.weddingcakes.com. One word for his decorations? Speechless! God is super awesome! Ron is definitely a cake genius and super talented. My decoration is nothing compared to his. He is totally a master of cake decoration. But I take pride in what I am doing and continue doing. I have learnt from many successful people, the key is passion. You gotta have it or you don't. You cannot buy it, you have to want it. Those successful people in cake business like Rose and Ron are just ordinary people that have put their passion into the test over and over and over again. I believe every person is born with different talents. Some have one, some have two, some have three, some have plenty. But I am difinitely working on to develop the talent that has been given to me. In doing so, I just believe God will trust me with more to work with and accomplish better.
You can see how fondant is used in some of my cakes and cupcakes.
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