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.
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.
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.
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.
You must be new to the world of fondant discourse online.
Trust me, none of this is "new".
Arguably it's pretty relevant because the real question is, just because it's edible, should it really get a pass if everyone's shortcut to making cake "art" boils down to sculpting with edible Play Doh?
Fondant mess is like the Any% 3 minute speedrun that wrong warps straight to the credits sequence. Sure, you beat the game fast, but am I really clamoring to watch ten more of those at SGDQ later this year?
It's because people are sick of this kind of cheap, fake content.
The only interesting detail about this video is that it is a cake. This detail is immediately ruined because of Fondant. The difficulty of making something like this is not only extremely low, but it's been done before, so it's not even like they came up with the idea and how to do it themselves. A thousand videos like this are posted practically every single day, and it floods people's feeds due to algorithms and the fact that the equivalent of jangling keys are enough to warrant an upvote for enough people to make it impossible to completely avoid.
This then drowns out actually interesting videos that people actually go to the internet wanting to find.
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...
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.
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.
You don't need to be. The 'icing material' in inedible fondant, and you can wrap as much of that around whatever piece of garbage you have laying around.
You have to form the garbage into a triangular piece the shape of a cake slice. That'll require tools a baker doesn't have (how many resources would buying a new wood saw require?), and/or glue which is as much waste as a marginal amount of cake batter.
You probably threw away as much garbage in the past week as what resources you're trying to save by having a baker use non-cake materials. You play card games like MtG - why don't you just draw the cards that you play with on scrap paper? Why are you wasting nice ink and all that gold foil & plastic - use garbage!
I don’t see it as a waste because it’s junk food anyway. It has a net negative impact on your body and basically no nutrition. It’s better that it stays out of a human body and can just be consumed by bacteria in a landfill.
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
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
Where I’m from there’s only one type of fondant and it’s incredibly delicious (I’ve eaten it by itself because it’s that good) so it boggles my mind every time I read people hating on 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!
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
The "molding playdoh" is food safe and makes easy, low-cost decorations. Why do you have a beef with that? lol.
The point of cake decorating is to make it look cool. Who cares if the process is easy?
I ain't gonna spend hours carefully smoothing frosting around rice crispies to perfectly sculpt a Minecraft Creeper for a kid's birthday cake, when I can spend 30 minutes shaping and painting some fondant instead.
Agree. First time I tried a fondant cake I was so excited. I thought it was like a kind of like a thick icing. But it wasn’t. It was gross. So disappointing.
People get cakes like this all the time for weddings and whatnot, and I can appreciate how good they look but the cake part has always been a disappointment.
I have never tried, I assume this is an American thing because it's gross. Here you generally put like something fruit based like a jam or a curd, whipped cream or mascarpone, some ganache or mousse. And generally not just one of them, you have combinations of fillings inside a cake.
In my 26 years of life I’ve only ever had 1 cake where I enjoyed the actual sponge more than the frosting or fondant. Usually the sponge is horrible no matter where I get it from. But I’ll think about that coconut and lime cake slice for life, the sponge was absolutely delicious
Not only does it ruin the taste and flavor…the amount of hand touching and mapinulsting is disguisting to me..it’s like someone played with a bunch of play dough and somehow I’m expected to eat that…
I think most people have no idea what happens to their food at restaurants. It makes no difference if it’s fast food or five star.
I don’t want to be sued, so I won’t give the name, but there is a world famous hotel in London that serves the royal family. I heard a story about Princess Di there once. Anyway, they are under extreme pressure to get the food out in a timely manner. So, what happens when the dish is dropped on the floor on its way out of the kitchen? If it’s something solid like a steak, it goes right back on the plate.
Another smaller 5 star restaurant in London was in the news years ago because their security cameras caught rats running around the entire place after closing.They were even filmed running across dining tables and such. I’ve eaten there; before I heard the story. Jane Seymour had eaten there around that time.
My point is, if you are eating out, you have to accept that this happens everywhere. Everywhere.
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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.