Poured Fondant Vs Reg Fondant

Decorating By Phyllis52 Updated 11 Jan 2007 , 3:09am by RisqueBusiness

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Phyllis52 Posted 9 Jan 2007 , 5:07pm
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Has anyone used poured fondant instead of the regular fondant?

Is it much more trouble and how does it look?

Again, thanks so much for your input.
Phyllis

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czyadgrl Posted 9 Jan 2007 , 5:22pm
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I've used poured fondant to cover petit fours. If you're doing a regular-sized cake, I think it's easier to use regular fondant. For mini cakes or petit fours, poured seems easier to me.

You have to keep it at the right temp. while you work because it starts to harden up as it cools - it has a bit of a "snap" sort of like candy coatings or chocolate once it's cooled, but sort of a softer version.

I guess it depends on how you want to use it - I'm sure someone has more experience with both and can help you more. That's just my experience so far.

HTH!

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JoAnnB Posted 9 Jan 2007 , 7:57pm
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Poured fondant makes more of a candy-like shell over cookies or petit fours. You can't get the same smooth polished look of rolled fondant on a large cake by using poured fondant.

It sure would be nice, though.

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Phyllis52 Posted 10 Jan 2007 , 11:06am
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Thanks so much for your replies.

I was trying to take the easy way out..............I figured just pouring it over the cake would be easier, but I'll save it for the petit fours.

By the way, how does it taste?

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MomLittr Posted 10 Jan 2007 , 11:39am
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I want to try it on cookies and was wondering how it turns out. Have alot of small cookies to do and thought this would be a faster way of icing them. Also, can different flavors be added?

deb

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MomLittr Posted 11 Jan 2007 , 2:37am
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Does anyone have pictures of cookies they did with poured fondant? Still considering using it as an option to cover alot of small cookies - to save time and to maybe have different flavors of icing.

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RisqueBusiness Posted 11 Jan 2007 , 2:52am
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poured fondant for petit fours is usually a pastel color and has a very light lemony or almond flavor. I did easter cookies for a bakery with poured fondant.

It's a PITA to work with..it's like chocolate, you need to keep it at a certain temperature...body temp is good..you have to keep stirring it.

if you pour it over your cookie it goes all over the edges.

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MomLittr Posted 11 Jan 2007 , 2:59am
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RisqueB, thanks for that advice. I was thinking that poured fondant covering the sides of the cookies would not be too bad of a thing, like the petit fours. Don't know, maybe just using MMF to cover the little X's and O's (want to make baskets of "hugs and kisses")...it is just they are small cookies and it may be more of a pain than it is worth to ice them.

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RisqueBusiness Posted 11 Jan 2007 , 3:09am
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you can always try a batch and see what happens!

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