Need some help:
I've never used SatinIce and was getting ready to order some and I saw where Caljava has "White Chocolate Fondant" in different colors, etc. like the SatinIce.
What is the difference, the best, etc.?
Thank you for your help!!

Please Help! I'm really needed opinions and advice with this!

I would like to know too! I'll give you a bump.

I am real new to fondant and I have just used satin Ice. I love the taste but it is expensive. I have tried MMF but I thought it had a powdered sugar taste.

I would like to hear more about white chocolate fondant.

Are you getting Satin Ice at a reasonable price? And how does White Chocolate compare?

Thanks for a reply!
Caljava has the White Chocolate Fondant (2 lbs) for 13.75 in all different colors and flavors. Sure wish someone would post about this - sounds great! They have the Fondx but no SatinIce.
Cake Deco (Pfeil & Holing) has the SatinIce (5 lbs) for 16.50 - cheapest I can find.

I have only tried the chocolate "fondant" once - I ordered some in red, since it is so hard to get a true red with white fondant. I only used it for figure modeling, and the consistency was OK for that. I don't think I would cover a cake in it though - it didn't seem 'elastic' enough for me.

Personally, I use the Pettinice white fondant and always knead a little extra shortening into it and it works great for covering cakes (but not for figure modeling - too soft).

That's my opinion. And my first post here.

Thanks!!
I've only ever used the Wilton Ready-To-Use fondant and have no problems - but everyone here doesn't seem to care for it. So I was just wanting to try the others.
Welcome!!

I think I'm most curious about the taste's. My husband said he liked it but it was a bit chewy (the Wilton fondant). Because of the costs, I wanted to hear about the other types of fondant.

To me, Wilton does not taste very good - but my children will eat it. I think the white chocolate "fondant" (really it's just modelling chocolate) tastes good, as well as the Pettinice - but they each have their uses, so it depends on how you are going to use it.

I did try to make the MMF recently as well, because it is so much less expensive than paying $35 for a 15 lb. bucket of Pettinice. I haven't tried covering a cake with it yet, but the taste is pretty good.

I use Satin Ice. I've tried ChocoPan but found it too elastic and I had to stick it in the freezer to stiffen it up before attempting to move it onto the cake. It tasted delish but wasn't easy to work with. I'm not sure if it's the ChocoPan you were talking about but that's the only "chocolate" fondant i've tried besides the Dark Chocolate Satin Ice (which is yummy by the way)

Debbie

Well, with your help it's the SatinIce that I'm ordering for now. Caljava did not call it Chocopan. It was called White Chocolate Fondant - that's what caught my eye. Please don't mention any more types!! Just kidding but I am writing all of them down. Maybe try one at a time....

Let us know what you find out about the white chocolate fondant!

Debbie

Can't go wrong with Satin Ice. But would like to know about the chocolate if you ever use it!

Well, I was getting ready to order the SatinIce and noticed the Pettinice. Looked at a couple of different sites (Swiss Connection; Cake Deco) and I swear it reads like the White Chocolate Fondant that Caljava has
Then I went to SugarCraft and they have the Chocopan and it reads like the white chocolate fondant also. It sounds like to me that this fondant just has a white chocolate base
So based on your comments about the white chocolate fondant, I'm still sticking with the SatinIce for now. I think I'll get some of the Pettinice also.
I'll need to try both of them this week and post some photos
Thank you all for comments and suggestions to a topic I know has been run into the ground, but as you can tell, I'm still very new to this.

Just to confuse you further I tried a small container of the Pettinice once - it was ok to work with but didn't have much taste - which wasn't a bad thing depending on what flavors you are using with it but I did like the SI more - just my opinion.

Debbie