Dumb Fondant Question .............
Decorating By debiz1123 Updated 12 Oct 2007 , 11:19pm by AnotherBrit
I'm new to cake decorating but love it. I want to try my first fondant cake for a baby shower and I was wondering what you do with the fondant on the cake when your going to cut it, since most people (from what I've read here) don't like the taste. Do you take it off before cutting it? Doesn't it harden after it's been out uncovered anyway?
Sorry for the silly questions.
Thanks in advance!
Debbie
Only the Wilton fondant is not very tasty. If you make it, or buy another brand, many people will eat it.
However, if you are cutting the cake in the kitchen, you can peel off the fondant before you cut it. It does tend to make a mess.
Fondant does not get hard on the cake. The crumbcoat will help keep some moisture in the fondant. It is not hard to cut.
The fondant will not dry on the cake. Therefore it can be pulled or peeled off the cake easily.
Check my blog (link below) for marshmallow fondant recipe, which tastes better than commercial fondant 
The buttercream undercoat will keep the fondant pliable on the cake. This will allow you to cut the cake with the fondant on and will give it a texture that is easy to eat if they choose to or easy to peel off if that's what they want to do.
MMF is tasty and it ALWAYS gets eaten with the cake on my cakes. I don't think it is hard to make and I can't imagine buying the stuff.
Does Wilton know their fondant tastes like crap? You think they would be on top of that...
Definitely leave the fondant on, it will look so much more appealing! The Wilton fondant is pretty bad. I usually use Satin Ice and have recently been making Michele Foster's Delicious Fondant recipe from this site and I love it! (Much cheaper to make than buy...I have more time than money at this point.) My kids would snack on Michele's fondant if I let them (they won't touch the Wilton fondant though.) HTH
All my guests have loved fondant. A little boy even asked for more icing on its own and his Dad told me he normally refuses to eat any icing at all. I just cut it as I would a normal cake.
Thecakestylist, I would love to have your recipe for MMF. Maybe I'm being stupid, but I couldn't find it on your blog. Please help. Thank you.
Mary
Ditto to leaving the fondant on. It's not hard to slice at all.
You can add any flavor to the MMF you like, but most of my friends prefer adding a little almond with vanilla extract. I tend to try to match the filling flavor: If I have a raspberry filling I will add a small amount of raspberry extract to the MMF.
Thank you for all your help! I have made the MFF once just to try it and it worked fine, I didn't care for the taste and for some reason I thought it hardened after awhile, I guess that's just if it's not on the cake. I thought it would look pretty bad to after it was peeled off.
So I will leave it on and if someone doesn't like it, they can take it off themselves.
Thank you again!
Debbie
I have used Rhonda's Ultimate MMF (recipe on this site) and it stayed moist on the cake for several days. I agree with everyone else...just leave it on and allow the guests to take it off if they wish. So far, everyone who has tried the MMF has eaten it and said it was tasty, even my mom who thought she did not like fondant. And my kids beg for the stuff when I'm making a cake!
AnotherBrit, let me post it tonight. Sorry about that!!!
Thecakesylist
Thanks ever so much. Will look out for it!
Regards
Mary
Posted MMF recipe www.thecakestylist.blogspot.com 
Wonderful, thanks so much. Looks great and I can't wait to try it. As an aside, what shortening do you use?
Have a great weekend.
The recipe doesn't require shortening. I only use a little tiny bit for greasing the bowl (remember a little bit goes a long way). I usually use crisco shortening, blue label.
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