Our instructor demonstrated a rolled butter cream. It was easy to roll out and work with, a bit greasy though. How is the marshmallow fondant compared to the rolled butter cream? I see many people raving about the marshmallow fondant on here. My instructor said it was too sticky and did not seem too impressed. What is the cake central consensus on this?

I have not attempted the rolled buttercream. I did get brave enough to make some Marshmallow fondant and loved it. It was easy to make and easy to work with. I did not fine it to be sticky. I have not covered a cake with it though. I have only used mmf for accents and modeling. I was turned off to fondant after tasting the Wilton fondant, but the mmf has a nice taste and will use it to cover a cake if the occasion comes up. I'm just not sure how people in my area will like the fondant. Most people are used to buttercream.

Thanks for the info, I think I will try a batch of the mmf myself .The rolled BC didnt taste to bad, I havent tasted the Wilton so I cant compare.

Dara64...MMF is awesome to work with. My first fondant cake I used wilton's fondant. It broke and tore and looked terrible. Tasted just as bad as it looked
Someone on here suggested I try and make the mmf...I did and I LOVED it. It was not hard to make and when I rolled it out it has a bit of elasticity, it was much easier to cover cake. I made my first wedding cake using mmf...it was great. I dunno what your instructor is talkin' about, it being sticky and all...I just love using the stuff!
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Im going to give it a try this weekend, all of yall can't be wrong!!!

I am going to try MMf next week? has anyone out there used Choco-Pan? If so what do you think. I am using Satin Ice right now and find it much better than Wilton's.

I don't know why but I can not roll my MMF in a circle right. Mine is never right..Ij ust buy wilton fondant for practice but hopefull I can get that MMF.

How is the taste of the MMF? Is it at least edible as opposed to the Wilton fondant? I have avoided using fondant just because of the taste even though the presentation is beautiful. I am going to try it on a cake next week. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also, what size cake will one batch cover?

Thanks.

I dunno what choco pan is...???? Is it another brand of fondant? I keep hearing about FondX....all good things. Tastes good, easy to work with....think I will try that stuff next.

I have tried the buttercream rolled fondant and that worked out okay. I do not care for the Wilton fondant as it seems too dry. How do you make marshmallow fondant and what is the difference in that and the rolled buttercream?

The few times I used Rolled buttercream it cracked on me, but I prefer the taste to MMf. My last batch of MMF was the best yet, only 6 cups of sugar and added glycerin to it. It is still pliable, and has been in a bag for 2 weeks now.

Wilton not my favorite taste but I don't mind it, and some of my students don't mind the taste either, others hate it. I find it easy to work with and never really had any trouble with it.

If you like marshmallows, icing sugar and whatever flavouring you put in, then you will like MMF.

MMF tastes like the orange circus peanuts - do you remember those? I love MMF. It's great for covering a cake and for making figures! I tried the rolled BC recipe on this site and had a hard time with it tearing. It tasted good, but was a pain to cover a cake with.

dara64 - would you be willing to share the rolled BC your instructor used.

MMF...
http://www.cakecentral.com/article47-How-to-Make-and-Decorate-with-Marshmallow-Fondant-MMF.html
This is the way I do it...but sometimes I use less powdered sugar. Your gonna love it!

Hey guys - I started making MMF a couple weeks ago and I am SOOOO pleased with it! I found the best flavor was vanilla with a touch of almond. Just using one or the other tasted odd to me, although MMF tastes a milliion times better than regular fondant even without regular fondant. I've always used Wilton but had to apologize to people eating the cake for the taste and I certainly don't want to do that - so I'm really psyched about MMF. I tried Satin Ice and it's great - tastes so much better than Wilton's and work just as well - but it's so expensive. The one thing I've noticed about MMF so far is that it doesn't seem to smooth over the imperfections in the buttercream as well as regular fondant so the few practice cakes I've done have looked a bit lumpy - but I'm going to try again and work harder to smooth out the BC. It could be my fault, because occasionally I've had that problem with regular fondant too.

If you go to Wilton's website and on their Discussion Forum - go to the Recipes forum and there's a post by Bunnywoman about how to make MMF, and a recipe for a smaller batch of it so you can try it out and work with it before trying out the big batch. She's great - she gives lots of tips for using it. Search under her name Bunnywoman or just go to the Recipes forum - it's probably on one of the first 3 pages because someone is always responding to it.

I love being able to color a whole batch at once while making it so if I do need to cover a cake - I don't have to worry about kneading it all in. or you can make it white and knead in different colors later, just like regular fondant. So far, I'm really pleased with it. You can add gumpaste and do everything with it that you can with real fondant - it just tastes better and is a whole lot cheaper! Like the other ladies - I also don't use all the sugar it calls for - but I think it depends on humidity and so forth.

Anyway, have fun!

Melissa

Thanks for the advice. I can't wait to try it. I told my neighbor I would do a cake for her at no charge if she would let me try the MMF.

Wish me luck!! :