What is a good cake recipes (chocolate, hazelnut, vanilla - doesn't really matter what flavour) to use when icing with fondant.

I have only used dummy cakes before with fondant?

And, do I need to seal the cake first with something?? prior to covering with fondant.

Thanks for your help!

This might help:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1179-Nanys-White-Cake.html

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2322-184-White-Almond-Sour-Cream-Cake.html

http://www.cakecentral.com/article5-Solution-For-Cake-Bulging-Between-Layers.html

http://www.cakecentral.com/article22-How-To-Cover-Your-Cake-in-Fondant.html

http://tinyurl.com/yav9gt

http://tinyurl.com/yha668

Thank you for taking the time to post all those links.

Greatly appreciated!

KittyCake,

You're entirely welcome, it was my pleasure.