Wedding Cakes

[ZTABullwinkle]

I refused to use fondant icing on my cake. I have found that it can dry out and taste "gummy" (I think that is the best word for it). Consider what time the cake will be delivered to the venue, and how long after that it will be eaten. I know personally, the cake will be delivered by about 3 pm, but won't be eaten until 8:30 pm that night. Being out that long, in my case, would have dried out the fondant.

[ADqtPiMel]

My fondant was absolutely delicious, but my baker worked long and hard to perfect her recipe and she was only able to do it because she takes on a limited number of weddings. I think mass-producing yummy fondant would be tricky, and every other cake I've eaten with fondant sucked.

I would imagine you'll do a cake tasting before you pick your cake -- you can test the fondant and buttercream and make your decision from there.

[AGDee]

My cake decorating instructor told us that when we need to make black icing, to make it chocolate. Then you don't need as much black coloring to get it dark and it tastes yummy. See if your baker will do that.

[Glitter650]

Originally Posted by ZTABullwinkle

I refused to use fondant icing on my cake. I have found that it can dry out and taste "gummy" (I think that is the best word for it). Consider what time the cake will be delivered to the venue, and how long after that it will be eaten. I know personally, the cake will be delivered by about 3 pm, but won't be eaten until 8:30 pm that night. Being out that long, in my case, would have dried out the fondant.

I HATE Fondant too !!!!!!! and told my bakers that when I did tasting. But I'm having a cake where they can't do the decoration I want with buttercream...