Should I Or Shouldn't I Try A Fondant Cake For Customer!
Decorating By koppeskreations Updated 25 Aug 2006 , 11:28pm by gibbler
Okay girls this gal who orders alot from me needs an anniversary cake just for home nothing big just a 10" round. What I would like to know is I want to try MMF in the worst way but always afraid to because of what the customer may or maynot like. I am not charging her extra for the fondant just want to try it. She said do what ever I want. So should I do it or should I call her first and ask her, you can always pull it off right if they don't like the taste.
So what would you do?
Thanks all
Well have you used fondant before? I probably wouldnt do it if it would be your first time doing fondant, it took me one or two tries to get it. but if you have worked with fondant, go for it! She said you could do what you wanted. You can peel it off if you dont like it, and if there is BC underneath, you are all set!
I'd call her and ask her what she thinks. People are funny - they say do whatever you want, then they can be disappointed if it's not what they were expecting, even though they didn't tell us what they were expecting - like we can read minds 
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I echo merissa - if you haven't tried fondant, you may want to practice with it first. It isn't as hard as it might seem, but it does take a time or two to get the hang of it.
Trying something new AND not knowing if it's something the customer might like might end up in too much stress. Good luck!!
I only do Fondant..I love Fondant, really !
I do cakes for free since I am not in the business and I love doing cakes anyway. I can do Fondant really well. If you are comfortable doing Fondant, then do it.. SHe is open to whatever you want to do anyway.
Does she know that fondant does not taste good?
When I got married over 2 years ago, I hired a lady to do my cake. My hall decorator referred her and said she was in all these magazines and stuff. I went off pictures and not being cake savvy at all, I had no clue that the icing was different than the standard buttercream icing. She did not inform me either. When we ate our cake it was horrible and I was soooooo mad that she didn't tell me that the icing was fondant and that fondant is hard and not good!
If she had've told me that, I would've been happy with a less fancy cake for buttercream icing. And then looking back at the picture, the cake wasn't all that!
Never try something for the first time for a paying customer. Experiment on YOUR time on YOUR dime.
Even if you've done it before don't surprise the customer with something she hasn't asked for and doesn't know is coming. Especially if that suprise is something that a lot of people don't like to eat.
Marshmallow Fondant taste good..there are different types of Fondant.
The customer needs to be educated on Fondant before making them jump to the conclusion that it taste terrible.
[quote="MaisieBake"]Never try something for the first time for a paying customer. Experiment on YOUR time on YOUR dime.
I agree. I also have to say that not all fondant tastes the same. There are some very good tasting ones out there. However, it is also a texture issue. My DH looooooved MMF when I made it, but when I put it on the cake, and he had to eat it like that, he said he didn't like it anymore. A texture thing.
Buy a cake mix on sale, make up a batch of MMF (so cheap), and practice covering a cake. See how you do. Then eat it and decide what you think, that way you will be better able to relay to your customer what fondant is and isn't.
Whether or not you like fondant is a personal opinion. While I have only made and tasted MMF, I think buttercream tastes BETTER, but MMF certainly doesnt taste bad to me. Also with the buttercream underneath you dont actually have to eat it if you dont like it. I just made a cake with MMF for a friend for her birthday. She gave me free reign since it was a gift. I wanted more practice so I made MMF. They had never had it before and they said they all loved it.
I made an MMF covered chocolate cake with peanut butter fudge icing for my neice's birthday. Everyone still pulled off the MMF as it was just to rich and sweet with the fudgy icing....might have been better over buttercream.
I agree with MaisieBake...try fondant a couple of times before you sell the cake. Getting rid of your practice cakes will be easy. In my experience, any teacher's lounge will do 
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