Does anyone actually enjoy fondant on cakes?

[Vuitton Vampire]

I find it absolutely repulsive to eat.. Ive never been one for fancy utterly pointless designs on food. I get presentation is a key in eating fine foods but at the same time.... youre going to be destroying it when you chew it, it makes no sense to me. This goes for any type of food but for this threads sake, lets stick with cake and fondant/fondant designs.

[Elknirps]

yeah me too its gross

[Xaelath]

Not really no.
It felt like eating .. uh what.?
i am not sure what the perfect metamor

[Vuitton Vampire]

Originally posted by Xaelath:

Not really no.
It felt like eating .. uh what.?
i am not sure what the perfect metamor

What

[76561198318810008]

It looks neat but does it taste good?

[Vuitton Vampire]

Originally posted by VRSVSHOTTUBE:

It looks neat but does it taste good?

No, artificially tasting and texture is just UGH... not good.

Ive even had fondant that tasted like.. off.... sorta chemically ? It was, not good.

[76561198318810008]

Originally posted by Ugly:

Originally posted by VRSVSHOTTUBE:

It looks neat but does it taste good?

No, artificially tasting and texture is just UGH... not good.

Ive even had fondant that tasted like.. off.... sorta chemically ? It was, not good.

ah, than it must be pretty bad

[Thop]

I'm not a big cake guy in the first place, and by far that is my least favorite part of the cake, followed by the excess frosting that's always on the sides.

[[FFK3] Trovaa]

i've heard it's pretty good. thinking of making a large cubic cake with coloured fondant on each side to make it look like a rubik's cube

[Sixtyfivekills]

Short answer: I don't like it.

Long answer: I hate it, it's the worst thing in existence. You have a perfectly good cake, why would you butcher it with awful fondant in order to make some stupid shapes? Who the hell cares about shapes, people just want to eat the frigging cake!!!!!

[SpicyPepperoni]

I HATE FONDANT F******K, seriously it makes me gag.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

idk what fondant means... on second thought, i always eat icing... ;)

[shoopy]

I don't really know because I don't eat it.

[Sun Praisa']

i despise it

[Jej]

Who likes that crap?

[sfnhltb]

Originally posted by chiefputsi✖✖✖ 上 没什么 老挝:

idk what fondant means... on second thought, i always eat icing... ;)

Then you like fondant icing. Fondant is a mix of lots of sugar in hot water* left to cool undisturbed which causes small interconnected sugar crystals to form so the result can be shaped easily, for example creating an edible case around some cakes.

*Plus a couple of other ingredients like glycerol, butter and/or gelatin to make the result easier to work with and shape

I think in general we should expect more food preparation to go this way - with the rise of people taking photos of their meals and sharing them with friends on social media, what food looks like on the plate becomes more important as a way of advertising your product than it ever has before.

"The first bite is with the eye" and unlike paid for advertising where you can have an artist whip up some sort of McDonald's style Platonic ideal of what your product might look like if it was made with care and attention rather than the result of a production line, if every plate of food produced can lose you customers beyond the ones sitting at the table if it doesn't look very nice, then it seems like more time and effort will be spent on presentation (and presumably at the cost of spending less time on other aspects).