Do You Need A Certain Type Of Cake To Cover It With Fondant?
Decorating By cakes4all Updated 15 Sep 2006 , 3:02am by flourgrl
I mean, does it have to be extra dense or sturdy? I've never covered with fondant before, so I don't want to try it and then discover that I should have baked a different type of cake.
I guess I'm wondering if the fondant is too heavy for a normal cake mix cake.
Thanks for any tips and pointers!
Sarah
I think cakes do need to be somewhat dense just to cope with the sheer weight of the fondant! I would think that a doctored cake mix would be fine, but then as a scratch baker, I can't say for sure! Good luck!
I have used fondant on doctored- cake mixes a few times. I'm pretty new to decorating and fondant especially, but I didn't notice any problems with any of my cakes. I usually add extra flour to make my box cakes more dense. I think that using dense cake makes it easier to work with when doing carved or shaped cakes as opposed to your regular round cake. HTH.
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