I, personally, will not be buying an $8 box of cake mix because I have found recipes that I like that I can make much cheaper. However, there is a market out there for this stuff. Duff isn't sitting in his bakery and pulling these prices out of his arse. There are people who do this for a living who are pricing this stuff out. Someone out there is willing to pay it. You know what.....good for him. I don't see how it is so horrible that he is taking advantage of a business opportunity. I would do it too.....we ALL would do it.

how about Duff's gel colors. I have not seen the product or price since they were just starting to set-up in my Michaels but I'm sticking with y'all in not buying his high dollar stuff, but anyone what about gel colors?

Someone a few pages back posted that they've used the Jewel Tones set and the purple came out nicely. I may have to try for myself.

I did stop by my Michael's store earlier today and they finally have Duff's products up on the shelf.

What I was MORE excited about is the HUGE wall space dedicated to new muffin liners! They don't have them up yet but all the hangers and tags are in place and it looks like they'll have about 80 new muffin liners. Hopefully they'll have some greaseproof papers and papers in nice patterns and colors.

I saw some paula deen cookie and cake mixes at walgreens yesterday. Thought that was odd too.

Ida Garten has cake mixes too. And their just expensive. I havent tried them though.
I dont blame him at all. I would do it too if I could! He should get it while the gettings good!

Satin Ice is all over the place in the background of Ace of Cakes. In one episode he tried Fondarific and liked it.

Likely, Fondarific propositioned him for his name, but I'm sure Duff had plenty of input before he would allow the stuff to be sold. I wouldn't turn down an opportunity like that!

I absolutely love Fondarific for covering cakes, but it is useless for any other kind of decorating. I don't mind paying $12 (using 40% coupon) to try Duff's.

Yeah, Duff's stuff is expensive, but until it came out, I couldn't get anything besides Wilton locally, and sometimes I don't have time to order in. It's especially nice to be able to buy colored fondant; I usually make my own, but I HATE making black and red. I used to have to buy those Wilton multi-packs, which cost about $12 (without coupon) and I only got about 4 oz. of the color I needed. I'd much rather pay $20 for 2 lb. of Duff!

Yeah, it would be nice to be able to buy colored fondant in a pinch if I had to. Especially black.

I like the Duff stuff and I am not ashamed to admit it! LOL

I don't understand all the Duff hate. I am absolutely thrilled I can drive 4 miles down the road and buy a 2lb thing of hot pink fondant that tastes good! I usually order Fondarific fondant but sometimes I don't have time to wait for shipping and sometimes the shipping is more expensive than the product.

I have bought a couple tubs of fondant, the fun wire things (I know I could make them myself but I had a coupon!), and some silver spray paint! I love the spray colors. They are so much fun to use.

Anyhoo, if you have coupons, need something sooner than later, his fondant is awesome.

For anyone who's purchased Fondarific, have you purchased a colored fondant only to find that the fondant inside has faded to the point of being nearly white? I bought a container of pink (tutti fruity flavor, I think) for Valentine's Day cookies and when I got it home it had little "pockets" of yellowish color about the size of a pea, but the rest of the fondant was white. I had to add some pink gel color to it.

Just wonderin'.

I purchased duff colors on Decopac. $32.00 for 10 5oz. tubes. The tubes are the size of a toothpaste tube. I really like the colors. mixes nice.The caps twist on and off so neat and clean.

I find that interesting, too, because of what I read in his book! I saw the book at my local Barnes and Noble and considered buying it because I love cookbooks! Well, I discovered after leafing through that it was not a cookbook at all, but more of a bio about him and his team and stories behind the episodes and the cake designs. There were a few tips for better baking--like dusting your hands with cornstarch once modeling chocolate starts to melt---but nothing more. He wrote in the book that people often tell him wedding cakes don't usually taste good and they want to know if his cakes taste as good as they look. Duff said that the cakes that folks have had that didn't taste good may have been from a mix or maybe the icing was just sweetened shortening.

When I saw the Duff butter cream at Michael's, I read the ingredients to see if it differed from any of the other ready made butter cream in terms of ingredients. Nope.

I guess that his product line is for folks who want to say that have had a Duff cake, but who might not actually find a Duff cake affordable. I inquired 3 years ago about a baby shower cake I saw on their website. The cake was fairly simple and I needed it for 20 people. I was told $500!! Now, the minimum cake is 1,000. Not too many can afford those prices!

I'm going to Michaels tomorrow to see if they have the Duff stuff yet. Sounds like his gel colors are good, I'll probably buy those.

I can buy Satin Ice here, it's $16/2 lbs. So Duff's isn't that bad, especially with a coupon. I'm really excited to be able to buy black premade, which just isn't available here (retail). Shipping is cost prohibitive.

I get the Michaels ad via e-mail and could never find a coupon. So, duh moment one day and I typed coupon into the search function of the ad and guess what popped up-- , yep the coupon for the week. I also get AC Moores ads via e-mail and they often have a 50% coupon. I print an extra out and use it at Michaels.

could you, would you share your coupons with your needy friends?

Newmansmom----

Contact Lois or Laura at Fondarific about that....I got a discounted tub of tutti frutti from our local cake decorating shop this past weekend and it tasted just fine and looked good...It is a pale pink, though.

Paul

So I was just in the local Michaels here (Victoria, B.C) and they just got the Duff Cake Mix in...... $13.49!!! For ONE box of cake mix! I thought, maybe it is an extra large box or something. Nope - bakes 1 9x13 or 2 x 8 or 9" cakes. I couldn't believe it. This has probably already been posted in this thread, but I just had to share. Man oh man, talk about price gouging.

So has it been confirmed yet whether duffs fondant is satin ice or fondarific? Ill definitely try it if it's fondarific.