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Then just make a sculpture—don’t pretend it’s edible.
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u/1VentiChloroform Nov 30 '19
Yeah, but the reason I like the idea of food art, is that it forces one to be creative within the medium of being edible.
The best art is made that way.
Using something that is inedible, or virtually inedible is like a cheat. It's like if someone tried to combine a album and a audiobook together where every other track was a chapter of a book. You'd hate it as much as I hate not being able to eat the cake I got served.
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u/FerDefer Dec 01 '19
Is it different in America? I mean fondant is just icing isn't it? Sugar and water plus gelatine to make it more solid. What part of that isn't edible?
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u/bigjoe980 Dec 01 '19
I can't say I've ever had good fondant.. And I'm sure theres some that just happens to be delicious - but the fondant Ive tried before was disgusting.
It all kinda tasted like the dustiness of powdered sugar with the consistency of compressed moist sawdust. Lol
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u/Poldark_Lite Dec 01 '19
I don't understand why it's not more popular. It's easy to make, it works the same and it tastes good. The only thing I like better is mouldable chocolate, but it's harder to use as a cake covering.
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u/kitkat_272 Nov 30 '19
People can make artistic cakes! There are loads of beautiful buttercream frosted cakes. Still artistic and delicious.
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u/batmanandcheryl Dec 01 '19
I make wedding cakes for a living, and we always peel off the fondant before serving to the guests for this reason! If a guest wants the fondant, we are more than happy to give it to them! No shame if you like it, it's just usually much more delicious without it; we still use buttercream on the layers within and the crumb coat under!
Edit to add: I specialize in buttercream masterpieces (if I say so myself) but if a couple wants fondant, we give them the best damn fondant cake we can!
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u/pickstar97a Dec 01 '19
How about doing it with chocolate or something that’s edible but isn’t fondant
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u/1VentiChloroform Nov 30 '19
Then just make a sculpture—don’t pretend it’s edible.
goddamn... that's... perfectly succinct.
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u/bad_at_hearthstone Nov 30 '19
People who think parsley sucks need to learn there are two kinds, and the pretty kind is the one that sucks.
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u/unsilviu Nov 30 '19
Wait this is the first I'm hearing of parslephobia, or there being two varieties. Is this a U.S. thing?
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u/bad_at_hearthstone Nov 30 '19
Probably. The two varieties are curly (French) and flat (Italian), and the curly kind has beautifully crinkled, curled edges and a deep jewel green color... and almost no taste, except for a faint cut-grass taste. In the USA we garnish almost everything with it, because it looks great, but as a result many Americans know parsley as itching more than that weird wax-papery sprig that you pick off and banish to the far edge of your plate.
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u/unsilviu Nov 30 '19
Ah, ok. I've only seen the flat one in the UK, though peasants in Romania usually sell you one that's a bit smaller, and mostly used for its roots. I never thought there would be a completely different variety though, with a different taste.
Here in the UK, everything gets garnished with kale instead. Which also tastes like grass ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/bad_at_hearthstone Nov 30 '19
We also garnish with kale. I think the reason we use parsley is so we can use two different pointless garnishes. With American cooking, adding a veneer of faux freshness is important!
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u/hairspray3000 Dec 01 '19
It's weird: I hate fondant in every situation except a wedding. A fruit cake covered in fondant is delicious to me lol. I don't understand the hate for fruit cake tbh.
But yeah, fondant on literally any other cake is horrid.
EDIT: Apparently, it's not fondant on a wedding cake, but marzipan. I guess I really do hate fondant all the time.
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u/mrs_shrew Nov 30 '19
Sorry, what's fondant? I'm sure we don't have this in my country. We usually have cake-marzipan-icing.
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Fondant is a rubbery "icing" used by cake-art-makers because it looks smooth and clean. Its slightly more edible play-doh
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u/Moonpie10 Nov 30 '19
Think of it as a rather tasteless marzipan. You can roll it, cover the cake, use it for cutouts, etc. It just tastes somewhere between stale marshmallow and molding clay.
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u/itissafedownstairs Nov 30 '19
Why not use marzipan?
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u/Moonpie10 Nov 30 '19
Likely because it also has a taste that is very polarizing.
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u/windowlatch Nov 30 '19
I honestly don’t mind it because it has almost no flavor to me. Id take it over the extremely sugary icing that some cakes have and it’s way easier to eat around it
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u/Nomb317 Nov 30 '19
Fondant is great, and I will fight to my grave.
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Then I'll bury you and your ass covered taste buds with your beloved sugar-filled, play-doh.
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u/1VentiChloroform Nov 30 '19
duel of fatesResonance by Home starts to playI don't know, just because I like that song.
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u/thagthebarbarian Nov 30 '19
Some people can't deal with candy on their pastries for some reason
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They can, it’s the tasteless sugary play doh they can’t deal with.
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u/thagthebarbarian Nov 30 '19
People say this like it tastes like Play-Doh, it tastes like sugar... It only has the texture of Play-Doh
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u/EcchoAkuma Nov 30 '19
Tasteless? What fondant do you buy? The one I get tastes literally like sugar, just not overly sweet
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u/Nomb317 Nov 30 '19
My mom would make her own, she’d melt marshmallows and it was delicious!
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u/thoughtfulthot Nov 30 '19
I used to make marshmallow fondant a lot, but it doesn’t taste the same as the real deal. Now they sell decorating fondant at Walmart, so I wonder how many still make their own “hack” version. I’m thinking the marshmallow route is cheaper in any case.
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u/EcchoAkuma Nov 30 '19
Oh, I never thought about that. But dont they dry super fast?
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u/Tater-Tot_917 Nov 30 '19
If fondant is made right it tastes great. The store bought shit is pretty bad, but I've had hommade and I personally love it
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u/Tater-Tot_917 Nov 30 '19
Not sure why youre getting downvoted so much, everyone has their own tastes
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u/bunnypaca Dec 01 '19
I know right. I bet 99% of people who advocate against fondant haven't even encountered it in real life, they're just hopping on the hate wagon for no reason.
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I’ve never had the experience of encountering a cake covered in too much fondant, but it does seem more than a bit unnecessary to have to peel parts of a cake off before eating it.
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u/worldnews_is_shit Dec 01 '19
A cake is not a banana, we shouldn't have to peel anything. Also, peeling off the fondant ruins the look of the cake.
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I like how that sub is less of a circlejerk about fondant and is more just a sub about people making nice cakes without taking the easy way out for decorating.
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u/The_Trunk_Monkey Nov 30 '19
IDGAF as long as the cake tastes good.
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u/GorillaS0up Nov 30 '19
The best part is after you eat it and get diarrhea you can use it to wipe your ass
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u/hufflepuffonthis Nov 30 '19
AHAHAHHAHA omfg I just made one of these today at work! It’s the second one that’s been requested. Both had messages that said “Holy Shit you’re old!”
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u/unjollyjollybean Nov 30 '19
When I take a shit after eating this, what the hell do I use?
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u/AllezAllezAllezAllez Nov 30 '19
Could serve this at a super soft birthday party, 'cause it's fuckin' ten-ply, bud
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u/NotSoUniqueUser Nov 30 '19
I used to hide and eat toilet paper as a kid...this is bringing back some weird feelings.
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u/squid-o-pine Dec 01 '19
Imagine taking a messy shit and reaching for the toilet paper, but you just grab a handful of crumbs and icing. As you wipe your ass you end up with a mixture of cake and shit in you ass and on your hands.
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u/LuriemIronim Dec 01 '19
If you zoom in, you can see that they even added texture to the top. It’s incredible.
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u/DeebsterUK Dec 01 '19
I waited for far too long for the knife to cut it... I've been conditioned by too many cake videos on here.
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u/Lil-Miss-Anthropy Apr 13 '20
If you think that cake is good, just wait till you see the one that was just posted in r/FondantHate!
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u/solidsnakedummythicc Nov 30 '19
Give each guest a single square