People want fondant looking creations without the fondant and then get mad when I say no.
Recently I have had a lot of customers around here asking for crazy 3D cakes and designs, but they don't want fondant. "I don't want to chew my icing." ok, so you want to suck it through a straw???
So, you want a 3D rocket ship standing up, smooth and highly detailed made of whipped icing?? Um, no thanks.
I use Jen Dontz's recipe for fondant, so I know its heavenly, but people are just so picky. And yet they want Duff designs.
annoying.
Most people have had bad experience with fondant. It took a bridal show a year ago for me to figure out that there were actually different flavors. One booth was actually handing out little fondant cut out flowers to prove it tasted good. If you ever have extra fondant lying around it may be a consideration to give a small taste if they have already proven they are willing to pay for the cake. That's what sold me anyway.
Most people have had bad experience with fondant.......
i was saying to my cake teacher last monday that since highschool (ummm, 25yrs ago) i thought i hated fondant because my year 9 food science class made us use a horrible almond fondant (can still buy it at woolies) on a cake and i hated it but the fondant we use in class is yummy so im prepared to try a fondant cake now
Most people have had bad experience with fondant. It took a bridal show a year ago for me to figure out that there were actually different flavors. One booth was actually handing out little fondant cut out flowers to prove it tasted good. If you ever have extra fondant lying around it may be a consideration to give a small taste if they have already proven they are willing to pay for the cake. That's what sold me anyway.
That's a really good idea 
we gave out little squares of fondant on a toothpick at a recent bridal show we did, and everyone loved it although most had a preconceived opinion already.
"I don't want to chew my icing."...... I use Jen Dontz's recipe for fondant, so I know its heavenly, but people are just so picky.
You pointed out two totally different things. Texture and taste. While the taste my be heavenly, some poeple just do not care for the texture of fondant.
My family would be in the texture group. We just don't like the chewiness of fondant. I have tried home made recipes before, and while the taste is good, it is still chewy.
To each their own. Both tastes and textures very from person to person. What is good to one person may not be good to another
You are the cake decorating so you should tell them that I'm sorry but that icing will not hold up for what you want. I can do a different design using the icing you want or I can do this cake, using fondant.
But I don't think they are being picky by asking for an icing that they prefer.
Ok, my family doesn't care for the chewieness (is that a word?) of fondant. In fact I don't. I use mmf, and all the little kids just love it, I mean it's just a marshmallow 
But come on, there is a layer of buttercream under there! I just leave the fondant on my plate.
I always take samples of fondant covered squares to my bridal tastings. Last weekend I met with a couple and the groom would not touch it! I said.. try it.. its not the nasty stuff you have had before. I make mine fresh (MMF). He said no several times! haha I finally let it go! I think its a texture thing. My kids LOVE the stuff and my hubby hates it. Several of my customers have ordered fondant after they have given it a try. Lets face it.. most sculpted cakes would not be awesome if it were not make with fondant. Or at least mine aren't!
They can always peel it off. I don't really care for it either, but it certainly doesn't offend me. It's not like the entire cake is made of fondant.
I agree.....Sometimes it has NOTHING to do with the taste & EVERYTHING to do with the texture. That said, I'd tell them no also. If it needs to be cover in fondant for that "LOOK" ... well they need to get over it & PEEL IT OFF......HAHA
oh & is that recipe you use public knowledge? I'd love to have it if it is...Thanks 
oh, I always recommend giving the brides a sample of fondant, and most of them love it. Wedding couples never give me grief about it.
Usually its just the celebration cakes that are the pain. People want the cool look without the chewy icing or the fondant price. Smaller the price tag, the more they want for less.
Daltonam- the fondant recipe belongs to Jennifer Dontz, who is a member here and has a video for sale that has the recipe. So, in respect to her, I'll have to point you to her videos.
Can you replace the fondnat with molded chocolate????? This is something I am going to be trying out in a few weeks on a test cake.... I know the chocolate is much heavier, but it's worth trying
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