By: G. Smitty | 2010-11-12 | Food & Beverage Many types of wedding cakes have a lovely fondant. This is an icing substance used for decorating cakes. Most of you have seen fondant cakes even though you may not be aware of it. It can be prepared with a poured or a rolled fondant. read more
By: G. Smitty | 2010-11-12 | Food & Beverage The term fondant decorating is not new to most bakers. A fondant usually refers to an elastic paste that offers a soft, shiny surface on cakes. On top of this surface, a cake baker could attach his or her favorite cake decorations. read more
By: G. Smitty | 2010-11-12 | Food & Beverage Baking is a wonderful pastime for most people who are good at cooking. Whether one is an expert chef or not, he or she can learn how to bake a cake. The procedure can differ, depending on the recipe one wants to use. Even so, some baking tips remain the same, such as the use of fondant tools. read more
By: G. Smitty | 2010-11-12 | Food & Beverage The most enjoyable step of baking a cake is creating decorations. All you require are fondants. This elastic stiff icing is easy to shape the way you want. It is also sugary and may not have any flavor. If you are a creative person, then you can do fondant cake decorating task quite conveniently. read more
By: G. Smitty | 2010-11-12 | Food & Beverage Some cakes are more attractive than others are. Do you know the secret that most bakers apply? They use an item called a fondant. It is usually a stiff sugary paste, which is elastic too. Commonly, people call it cake icing or covering. read more
By: JugHead | 2010-10-29 | Food & Beverage Decorative cakes are highly popular today. It is mostly seen in weddings, debuts, and on birthday parties. Most of the layered cakes you usually saw in weddings are made out of fondant icing. read more
By: Benjamin Christie | 2011-10-04 | Recipes The art of making fondant has been around since the 17thcentury, at which time a lot of cake decorating became very popular and icing and fondant was really only reserved for the very rich and only brought out on special occasions. It was actually in 1558 that the first rolled fondant recipe came about. It was a sugary paste then, and over the years fondant has evolved into the ultimate cake decor read more
By: Dee Brizeno | 2011-04-19 | Arts & Entertainment Cake decorating with fondant is among the simplest sorts of cake decorating to understand. Fondant can be a stiff sugary confection that can be dyed to any color to add decorations to any cake of cupc... read more
By: Benjamin Christie | 2011-10-04 | Recipes Need an easy chocolate fondant recipe? Join the millions of people out there that want to know the secret to getting a perfectly sumptuous fondant. The chocolate fondant originated in France and the word ‘fondant’ translates as ‘melting’. Melting is therefore a vital part of the fondant recipe process. read more
By: Dee Brizeno | 2011-04-19 | Arts & Entertainment There are many fondant cake decorating tips and methods which you can use in order to make the perfect cake. For those that are not familiar with fondant its a creamy confectionery shaped of sugar h2o... read more
By: Benjamin Christie | 2011-10-05 | Recipes The thing that sets a fondant au chocolat apart from other chocolate cakes is the fact that the recipes used to make it use very little or no flour. It is this sparse use of the flour that gives this amazingly rich dessert its very unique texture. You expect your fork to sink into a fluffy sponge cake with very little effort, however a fondant au chocolat has a little more toughness to its texture read more
By: Fiona Summers | 2011-09-24 | Desserts Ask any experienced cake decorator for a Top 10 list of the essential tools of the trade, and you’re sure to find both fondant and gum paste on the list. What is fondant? What is gum paste? Learn the best ways to use each one to make decorations for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, candies, and other confections. read more
By: Tapan Sarkar | 2010-03-31 | Recipes As far as our tradition of festivals and parties goes, well decorated cakes are pretty much at the top of the list of must-haves. Cake decorating basically is a way of using colored sugar icing to make an otherwise plain cake more visually interesting. read more
By: Isabel Flores | 2010-03-27 | Desserts Have you ever wonder whether you should use fondant or frosting on your cakes? Well, there are pros and cons to utilizing fondant or frosting. read more
By: Mary Redfoot | 2010-03-31 | Desserts Fondant is a sweet paste that you can color and roll. It is like the cake decorators play dough. If you have eaten a cake with fondant you know that it is very sweet too. read more