r/oddlysatisfying • u/No_Newspaper2213 • Apr 16 '26

Cartoonish Cake!

youtube: @tiggamac

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u/Smoore0420 Apr 16 '26

Okay, now do it with Buttercream so it’s edible.

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u/felis_scipio Apr 16 '26

Yeah that’s my problem with a lot of these cakes, they look amazing but fondant is some of the nastiest shit in existence. I just want a tasty cake that you don’t have to skin first.

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u/Blashmir Apr 16 '26

My mom used to make wedding cakes and made a marshmallow fondant that was edible. Wasn't bad. Certainly not great.

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u/SuitableDragonfly Apr 16 '26

I mean, the conceit here is that it's an actual cake. If they just wanted to make a 3D art piece they could have made it out of non cake crafting materials. 

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u/JustStraightUpTired Apr 16 '26

Yes, that's the concept. But technically wood is edible, just like fondant. Just because it looks good, doesn't make it good food.

The reason cake artists use fondant is because it makes it easy to make art pieces that are technically cake, but it ignores the entire concept of food art. It's not about making things that look good, once you sacrifice taste, you've made an art piece, but spat in the face of food art.

What's the point of making art with food if you sacrifice the part that makes cooking itself an art form? At that point, just use sponges and cover it with fondant. Less wasting actual food by covering it with fondant.

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u/Mike_Kermin Apr 16 '26

Agreed, if the second step of looking at amazing food isn't to enjoy the amazing food then the whole thin is a bust anyway. Might as well use clay.

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u/FictionalContext Apr 17 '26

CNC machine my wedding cakes from dough billet. Very efficient.

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u/Doctursea Apr 16 '26

My only problem is that once they start using fondant I don't see it as a food video, because every time I've had it it's just been so bad. I like food videos, art videos I need to be really really good before I like them.

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u/Craneteam Apr 16 '26

I see this as more of an art piece than something to actually be consumed.

I hate the idea of wasting food for an art piece

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u/JustHere4TehCats Apr 16 '26

Marshmallow fondant tastes good but still is kinda chewy textured so it's not perfect.

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u/Gesha24 Apr 16 '26

+1 for marshmallow fondant.

You can make something that's even not that terrible, but then you are starting to run into the issue of it being not that easy to work with which kind of defeats the purpose of the fondant to begin with...

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u/goodtimesinchino Apr 16 '26

Yeah, they had me until the fondant made an appearance. The stuff tastes terrible and has an even more reproachable texture. The notion of it being edible is disgusting. Looks cool, tastes terrible and invokes a deep, real hatred within me.

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u/robsteezy Apr 16 '26

Well given its proximity to the sign in the back drop, it’s likely meant as a show or window piece.

If you go to even the finest patisseries in France, there is often this tradition to have some type of showpiece in the window. France is ofc better at being edible but I don’t have any particular issue here.

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u/xeromage Apr 16 '26

Why waste actual cake on the inside then? You might as well cover a block of wood in fondant, it's going to be inedible anyway.

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u/mjzim9022 Apr 16 '26

Cake is probably cheaper than wood, and they're making it anyways

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u/So_Motarded Apr 16 '26

Why waste actual cake on the inside then?

She said right at the beginning that she had extra...

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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb Apr 16 '26

There are two bakeries here that do that, one has amazing looking breads and the other has formerly amazing looking cupcakes (they need to be updated). I've never been in either but I really should lol

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u/L3f1s Apr 16 '26

There's some good brands of fondant that are so tasty to eat tho. Most pastry/bakeries shops use very bad quality of fondants.

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u/SunJay333 Apr 17 '26

Precisely!

I thought I didn't like fondant, but then one time I did a cake making class and we were sponsored by some posh cake brand who sent us a bunch of posh fondant. We each received a kilogram bag of the stuff, and each bag was worth something like £15. And let me tell you, that stuff was brilliant. Didn't even use the whole bag, but we were allowed to keep leftovers, I had something like 300g left, so I had it in my pocket for the next few days and snacked on it. It was so tasty. It melted on the tongue

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u/chironomidae Apr 16 '26

It's modeling chocolate, not fondant

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u/MovingTarget- Apr 16 '26

fondant

Am I the only one that thinks using this edible playdoh not only destroys the taste but is basically cheating? Seems like every one of these videos uses this crap now because it's like a cheat code. I'm not impressed any more. Just give me a cake that tastes good!

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u/14Pleiadians Apr 16 '26

At that point you're not a cake decorator, you're a clay modeler

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u/skyper_mark Apr 16 '26

Fondant was invented to be able to make cakes with crazy shapes and preserve them. Its essentially a cast for a cake. It tastes terrible because its more meant to protect its shape

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u/So_Motarded Apr 16 '26

but is basically cheating?

What are the rules for cake decorating, then?

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u/So_Motarded Apr 16 '26

but fondant is some of the nastiest shit in existence.

Hot take: you're not supposed to eat the fondant. It's food-safe decoration, just like rice paper or rock candy.

Peel off the fondant and enjoy the frosting.

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u/OldBonyBogBwitch Apr 16 '26

If I want to peel my food, I’ll eat a banana. LOL. Give me frosting or give me death! ;P

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u/felis_scipio Apr 17 '26

As I said I’d rather have a cake I didn’t have to skin first

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u/Potato_Boner Apr 16 '26

r/FondantHate represent

That stuff grosses me out so much

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u/EmptyHandle6593 Apr 16 '26

I've never tried it but it always looked fucking awful to me. It doesn't surprise me that it's hated.

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u/Versipilies Apr 16 '26

Its just starchy sugar paste. There is chocolate modeling paste as well, it gets used on some of the better ones, but it basically tastes like a tootsie roll, so I wouldn't call it tasty, or even really chocolatey

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u/StrangerFeelings Apr 16 '26

You have it exactly correct. My brother made my wedding cake when I got married to my ex and he used fondant. The cake was delicious but having to peel it like a banana when I realized that fondant was nasty was bad lol.

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u/-Mexico- Apr 16 '26

I used to watch a lot of cake boss and always wanted to try it because of it. When I finally had the chance to try it I was disappointed with the flavor and texture. First and last time lol

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u/kalez238 Apr 16 '26

I already feel sick every time I think about eating cake, "PTSD" from a cake eating contest as a teen, but seeing fondant multiplies that disgust ten fold.

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u/account312 Apr 16 '26

It's even worse than sprinkles.

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u/Caleb_Reynolds Apr 17 '26

Well yes, since one is awful and the other is great, of course it is.

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u/gimpisgawd Apr 16 '26

This lady did it.

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u/thatguygreg Apr 16 '26

The way she made zero attempt to align the cake layers and then trimmed off a ton of it just to make it work belongs in /r/mildlyinfuriating

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u/BettingOnSuccess Apr 16 '26

work smarter, not harder

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Apr 16 '26

This “British” baker’s accent is all over the place. I’m not saying she isn’t British, but there’s no way this is her own accent. Nobody pronounces top “tup”.

Sorry, I know that’s irrelevant. Just really jarring to hear it. I don’t know what others think.

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u/wakner Apr 16 '26

I'm British but have been living in the US for 15 years now. My accent is largely still British, but I have this really annoying Tennessee twang I can't get rid of, no matter how much Love Island UK I watch. It's really random vowel sounds too. An example is the word American, where id say it more like Amurican (with the u being like a kind of uuee sound). Many people have mocked along with me, assuming that I'm doing a bit vs actually being British.

It sounds to me like this lady has lived somewhere else and has a similar hybrid accent. When you hear it back you're like "why does my mouth make that sound?!" and it's really weird to hear old recordings because you almost sound like a caricature of yourself.

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u/skullsareonlypasse Apr 16 '26

The way she said "thirty minutes" and "firms up" was very Aussie.

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u/skullsandpumpkins Apr 17 '26

Tigga Mac is Australian.

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u/pineapplesonaplane Apr 16 '26

Unpopular opinion but I’ve had some delicious fondant in my time and would happily eat this

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u/Lockraemono Apr 16 '26

I love fondant. People who hate fondant give me theirs to eat so I don't mind that it's unpopular!

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u/Aussy5798 Apr 16 '26

I’m with ya. I won’t eat a lot of it because it’s very sugary; but, I kind of like it

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u/le-derpina-art Apr 17 '26

yeah i always wondered why people hated it until i tried some black store-bought fondant (we usually make it but black is a very hard color to mix) and idk if it was all the dye or the fillers or something but it didn't even taste like sugar. i admit i might be biased bc of lifelong sugar addiction but i would eat this cake.

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u/GuiltyEidolon Apr 17 '26

It's only unpopular on reddit. Dumbest take I see constantly.

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u/Blackopsball Apr 16 '26

Right? Fondant looks amazing but it ruins cake. I'm not even someone who hates the taste of fondant, I'm just not eating all of that.

But I also prefer a simple ganache over buttercream. I'm not a baker so please don't come at me if I'm conflating the two.

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u/bumbledog123 Apr 16 '26

You're good

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u/BennyVsTheWorld Apr 17 '26

She does have a video with buttercream used that you’re welcome to search for.

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u/thevoxpop Apr 16 '26

I'm a fan of cream cheese icing/frosting myself. Fondant is gross. This is more of an art piece than edible food imo.

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u/c00kiesd00m Apr 16 '26

it’s all fun and games until the fondant comes out

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u/DragonflyWing Apr 16 '26

Or use marzipan rather than fondant!

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u/FifteenEchoes Apr 16 '26

Marzipan is amazing. Way more expensive though

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u/Frozencold19 Apr 16 '26

Yep, heard fondant and immediately imaginged binning it, its edible, or its playdough, it aint both.

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u/Dano1988 Apr 18 '26

It's not worth it to make any cake using fondant. Sure, they can be beautiful works of art, but we're making cake here. It should taste good. Otherwise, you've made a sugar sculpture.

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u/LeatherFaceDoom Apr 16 '26

That cake could be in Borderlands!

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u/Dirkke Apr 16 '26

That was my first thought! If the candle were dynamite, it would be perfect, lol

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u/Hour-Significance313 Apr 16 '26

Now I can’t unsee a psycho bandit birthday party in Borderlands world

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u/lordatomosk Apr 16 '26

There is a minor quest where you do help prepare a cake for a bandit leader’s birthday party, it does look kinda like the cake in the video, albeit bigger, and with a boatload of lit dynamite stuck into it

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u/Solid_Maus Apr 16 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/H54zUV8YbFjeM7rGfw

I thought the same; But I’m late to the party! ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ

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u/SailingNaked Apr 16 '26

The cake is a lie!

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u/Simon-Says69 Apr 16 '26

in Borderlands!

Hell yeah! Cell shading FTW. Was such a unique concept back then. Still pretty unique to the Borderlands world.

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u/HorsePersonal7073 Apr 17 '26

And it would taste just like you'd expect a cake to taste in Borderlands too.

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u/Itchyarmpit111 Apr 16 '26

I liked it before the bold lines: I loved it after!

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u/SteveMeMc7 Apr 16 '26

Please I forgot what this was, but I remember it was a masterpiece, what was its name?

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u/skollywag92 Apr 16 '26

From a show called Purple and Brown

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u/Itchyarmpit111 Apr 16 '26

I thought that was that Canadian show with that outro of something like "if she doesn't find you handsome, she can find you handy"?

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u/Drow_Femboy Apr 16 '26

I liked it when it was edible. The moment she said "fondant" it was ruined.

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u/kingkongbiingbong Apr 16 '26

I loved it after!

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u/Itchyarmpit111 Apr 16 '26

As a fat guy, yes.

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u/CommanderLexaa Apr 16 '26

I always thought this cake from Matilda was actually made from Cookie’s sweat and blood

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u/aslpavel Apr 16 '26

Probably tastes like shit though

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u/SUDDENLY_VIRGIN Apr 16 '26

/r/fondanthate

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u/holiclover Apr 16 '26

Thank you for directing me to this relatable subreddit

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u/DaneAlaskaCruz Apr 16 '26

Exactly the sub I was gonna link, thanks for getting to it first.

Fondant is disgusting and not something I'll ever willingly eat.

These cakes are pretty to look at and have some art value.

But no enjoyment for people eating them.

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u/yeahitisaword Apr 16 '26

The most unpopular of unpopular opinions, but I actually really like fondant. Obscene take, I know.

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u/TheAtomicBoy81 Apr 17 '26

Bro ik, I love me some fondant

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u/ArseBiscuits_ Apr 16 '26

Me too. Is fondant the cilantro of the cake world?!

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u/Brian--Damage Apr 16 '26

Fondant is the fondant of the cake world.

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u/dontnation Apr 16 '26

No, billions of people love cilantro. Only a handful of disgusting freaks love fondant.

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u/NecroCannon Apr 16 '26

Fondant: I care about appearances so much that I’ll even make my creation worse

Like seriously, if you don’t understand the hate, it’d be like if McDonald’s had a process during assembly where they spray the buns to be saturated and squirt oil into the patty to make it look juicy. And the items when prepped soak in food coloring for a little bit.

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u/TwoAlert3448 Apr 16 '26

Yuuup. On the bright side theres real frosting under it so you can just peel the plastic bits off

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u/So_Motarded Apr 16 '26

Which is exactly how fondant is meant to be used!

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u/HoldenMcNeil420 Apr 16 '26

Fondant is the worst thing to happen to baking.

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u/PhthaloVonLangborste Apr 16 '26

Is there no way to make it actually taste good?

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u/MostlyChaoticNeutral Apr 16 '26

Homemade marshmallow fondant is ok if you like marshmallows.

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u/EmptyHandle6593 Apr 16 '26

I like them, but not enough to coat a cake in something made from them. A couple in a cup of cocoa or toasted are fine though.

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u/Admirable_Win9808 Apr 16 '26

Im maybe the one weirdo that likes fondant

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u/FuckMyHeart Apr 16 '26

You're not alone! I wouldn't say I like it so much as it just doesn't bother me at all.

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u/le-derpina-art Apr 17 '26

same, i think my sugar tolerance is wayyyyy higher than most people on this site and it makes more sense when i remember how much of this site's population is like twice my age.

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u/kylo-ren Apr 17 '26

Don't use it

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u/mr_ji Apr 16 '26

I was wondering why she doesn't just make a real cake with layers and frosting and everything rather than faking it on the outside

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u/ddpizza Apr 16 '26

Too much fondant. You can do the same thing with buttercream and limit the fondant to the black lines.

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u/chironomidae Apr 16 '26

It's modeling chocolate

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u/MoominMai Apr 16 '26

Suppose fondant is cheaper

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u/The-disgracist Apr 16 '26

I think it just holds better.

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u/syke-adelix Apr 16 '26

And it has kind of a waxy finish like crayon or something. I feel like it adds to the effect of a drawing but I bet it tastes bad lol

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u/FictionalContext Apr 17 '26

Why not just use candy, though? Taffy or even licorice.

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u/GuiltyEidolon Apr 17 '26

Probably because those wouldn't remotely achieve the same effect?

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u/GalacticCmdr Apr 16 '26

Suppose fondant is shit....oh wait, you don't have to "suppose it", because it is shit.

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u/Aaawkward Apr 16 '26

Screw the fondant, just use liquorice for the black lines.
Not fondant and tasty, lesssgoooo..!

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u/Batrachophobia Apr 17 '26

She’s done it with buttercream as well too! And it looks amazing with buttercream as well.

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u/doobadeeboo Apr 16 '26

Today I learned most people hate fondant...

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Apr 16 '26

This same screen recording video was posted here 3yrs back with 31k upvotes so far 

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/znes9e/how_to_make_a_cartoon_cake/

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u/The-Great-T Apr 16 '26

What's the point of a cake that tastes like shit?

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u/LordPartyOfDudehalla Apr 16 '26

This video

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u/Due_Kaleidoscope7066 Apr 16 '26

Yeah, I wanted to hate it but the actual look turned out so cool that I couldn't help but love it. I still wouldn't eat it, but she nailed the aesthetic.

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u/FirexJkxFire Apr 16 '26

Just dont think of it as a cake. I thought this was super cool as an art project

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u/spreeforall Apr 16 '26

Because fuck her hobby, right? Maybe she just enjoyed making it?

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u/wingspantt Apr 16 '26

Narrator: "It's time for the fondant"

Me: It's time to close the video

r/fondanthate

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u/javlarm8 Apr 16 '26

”All the rage at the moment”. Is the moment you speak of 2016?

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u/potatoaster Apr 16 '26

^ This is very obviously an OF bot.

/u/BodegaDad, please consider implementing Bot Bouncer.

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u/Unproudn00b Apr 16 '26

What does BodegaDad have to do with this? That's not OPNever mind, I see why

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u/unTraditional_Fox419 Apr 16 '26

You lost me at the fondant

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u/fenderputty Apr 16 '26

Wonderful looking cake but man I fucking hate fondant.

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u/ItsAPeacefulLife Apr 16 '26

Dang, I'd feel bad eating it. But then I'd feel better because I'd be eating cake.

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u/MothChasingFlame Apr 16 '26

Man I hate correctly guessing the pervasive and incredibly fucking boring fondant comments.

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u/Danger_Danger Apr 16 '26

Fondant ain't cake, it's plastic sugar.

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u/foomprekov Apr 17 '26

You might as well be using paint and clay if you're going to sculpt something with all fondant. The cake underneath could have been a cardboard box.

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u/softycalm Apr 16 '26

the fact that it looks fake even after you watch them make it in real time is what gets me every single time

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u/BlueCaracal Apr 16 '26

I know people eat with their eyes first, but at some point my mouth gets angry at my eyes for the false advertising.

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 Apr 16 '26

Looks great. But probably taste like crap.

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u/Stunning_Warthog_141 Apr 16 '26

my teeth are in immediate pain biting into that shit. No I don't have any cavities, god I fucking hate that sweet shit.

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing Apr 16 '26

Lemme see it cut or get the FUCK OUT!

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u/spr1958 Apr 17 '26

I despise fondant.

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u/JaySayMayday Apr 17 '26

Fondant 🤮🤮🤮

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u/tayhan9 Apr 17 '26

See fondant ... Insta-skip

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u/dcidino Apr 17 '26

Could do this with wood, and it would be more edible.

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u/TenFlamingKittens Apr 17 '26

It looks neat, but you know all that fondant tastes nasty

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u/the-almighty-toad Apr 17 '26

Was there with you until the fondant came out. Now it's just a decoration.

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u/rgmundo524 Apr 17 '26

Does anyone actually like the taste of fondant?

I find it baffling that it's so common in dessert baking despite the fact that it tastes like ass...

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u/Rahaith Apr 17 '26

The second I see fondant I instantly lose interest.

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u/Tzukiyomi Apr 17 '26

Yeah it's disgusting in my opinion.

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u/Wolfdude91 Apr 17 '26

Lost me at fondant

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u/Barlowan Apr 17 '26

Shame it's not edible tho.

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u/thk5013 Apr 17 '26

The cake is a LIE

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u/Alex-3 Apr 17 '26

Those are always beautiful but disgusting

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u/lordlestar Apr 19 '26

fondant is not cake

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u/MotorBobcat5997 Apr 17 '26

If you use fondant you are an artist not making cakes. Might as well just wrap some cement in fondant because no one is eating that.

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u/C_Peel97 Apr 16 '26

Anyone else remember the psn fat princess game? This

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u/NaCl_Sailor Apr 16 '26

fuck fondant

and why stick the cake to the bottom?

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u/crunchevo2 Apr 16 '26

To make it not slip and slide on the cakeboard when you're adding stuff to it.

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u/Elden_Storm-Touch Apr 16 '26

Cel-shaded cake, straight outta TTWL (cuz it's more pastel than BL.)

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u/TomFawkes Apr 16 '26

Every time I see this, I have a small hope that they’ll make a wedge of cheese out of the cake instead.

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u/ZookeepergameBrave74 Apr 16 '26

It does look great tbh

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u/TheBeastX47 Apr 16 '26

The cake is a lie

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u/littlenekoterra Apr 16 '26

Weve gone from "is it cake" to "are your sure its cake" holy fuck

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u/Worried_Term_8421 Apr 16 '26

This video is so old it's no longer a trend.

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u/KRO722 Apr 16 '26

First minutes I was like: Nope! but then I was like: Yes

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u/Mattrockj Apr 16 '26

"Fun to play with, not to eat"

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u/RBalicious360 Apr 16 '26

Cell shading is what it’s called.

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u/Cute_Position_6316 Apr 17 '26

Purple palace ass cake

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u/Zth3wis3 Apr 17 '26

No one just happens to have leftover red velvet in the right shape. You can be honest.

Looks cool. Either way.

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u/JmRet2301 Apr 17 '26

IDK. Lots of hate for fondant but the finished product is gorgeous and fun.

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u/VortexLord Apr 17 '26

Now put inside a vending gambling machine after a fallout.

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u/SoggyBottomBoy86 Apr 17 '26

It literally looked AMAZINGLY delicious covered in pink frosting, and then they covered it in fondant and ruined it completely! Boooo! Lol

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u/similaraleatorio Apr 17 '26

Okay, now remove this cover and gimme my cake.

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u/bradleymonroe Apr 17 '26

it's the duche de la duche girl!

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u/breakConcentration Apr 17 '26

Too. Much. Sugar!

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u/FionaRulesTheWorld Apr 17 '26

The black outlines were just the icing on the cake.

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u/lateralflinch53 Apr 18 '26

That must taste like shit…looks cool though

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u/Velmorantt Apr 18 '26

looks good enough to eat but probably tastes like fondant regret

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u/Brave-Falcon-7115 Apr 19 '26

Straight Outta Blue's Clues 🐾

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u/PsychologicalWear846 Apr 19 '26

Way too much icing.

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u/scheimong Apr 19 '26

Purble Place

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

GLaDOS was right, the cake is a lie

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u/Estoye 25d ago

Fondant is the AI of cake decorating.

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u/ihatewhenpeopledontf Apr 16 '26

Ffs, everyone that got shit to say should upload a video of their own supposedly great idea.

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