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I love the look of fondant cakes, but is buttercream creeping back to take the top spot due to taste? What do you prefer?
I think fondant looks so much more beautiful
I actually am not a fan of icing at all, but I will being doing buttercream on mine.
BOTH! Most wedding cakes with fondant actually have a layer of buttercream underneath to help achieve the smooth finish. While I love the taste of buttercream, there are many cake designers that now make tasty fondant. I am having a very ornate design on my cake, so fondant was the only way to go for me. Good luck!
fondant is pretty but i dont like the taste... i prefer butter cream
Oh, you should have allowed us to make multiple selections! I asked my baker about this and she can do a layer of butercream frosting underneath a (vegan equivalent to) fondant so it can be both tasty AND pretty!
I really prefer fondant for a wedding. There is no rule that you have to eat it, and it looks amazing. I make fondant cakes myself, and I've had plenty of people tell me the cake I make is amazing. They just peeled off the fondant. It didn't poison the whole thing.
Unfortunately for me, I am getting married in a place that is rural and filled with amazing artists in all areas except cakes, apparently. I didn't think the work of a single person I interviewed was very good. One of them even had a cake on Cake Wreck (awesome blog). So I am having a dessert bar, as I would rather have no cake than a mediocre $800 cake.
Buttercream all the way! I had not really had much buttercream icing before but when i moved in with my FMIL and she introduced me to baking..i can never go back.
Yeah, that is a fair point. You literally can't do fondant without a layer of frosting. What else would make it stick?
hahah great responses!! I don't like too much icing, but fondant from what I've heard isn't that tasty. I'm sure it depends on the baker, but I don't know what to think. The last wedding I was at I barely ate the cake, and everyone was so full I don't think that they ate cake either gr!! I'd be so upset to spend sooo much and not have anyone eat it, and also have a dessert bar at the end of dinner too.
I am all for buttercream when it comes to flavor....however, we had to have fondant because of the design we wanted. There is a thin layer of buttercream under the fondant on our cake so I'm assuming guests will eat around it if they don't like it!
Buttercream! My mom was a dessert chef so I grew up around all types of icing. Fondant looks great, but tastes awful....
I really think you can make a beautiful cake with many different kinds of frosting. I just don't think fondant is worth it, given how terrible the taste and texture is...
Well, it not only depends on the taste it also depends on the look of the cake in question. If you want an elegant looking cake you should get fondant but it's like $1500 approx. The butter cream cake doesn't look as fancy, but it tastes better and is a lot more cost affordable. So elegant and good looking for $1500 or Yummy and pretty for $315? The bakery in my local town only makes Butter cream. I think both of them are fine. It depends which one you like. I voted for butter cream tho.
My wedding cake is being made with a white chocolate cream cheese frosting. I guess its not a very common choice for wedding cake, but my cake baker swears by it. It has a very smooth look but is more tasty than fondant OR buttercream, IMO. Its slightly more expensive than buttercream, but way less expensive than fondant.
Fondant is pretty if you aren't going to eat it. I love buttercream :o) Personally if we were going with a traditional wedding cake we'd do a "dark chocolate ganache". I don't know if that's common but the bakery we spoke to does it. Just another idea!
Fondant pulls the design togther but doesn't taste so hot. I think cicing is the best part of the cake so I would say buttercream.
Some artists can make buttercream as smooth as fondant - that is what I am doing because I hate fondant.... so chewy!
Dude, fondant is nasty. No fondant anywhere in sight was one of Mr. O's requests, so you had better believe I'm honoring that. I'd rather have a delicious cake than a perfect-looking one!
I'm going with buttercream! I think fondant is pretty, and it can be made well - but let's face it, most places don't even make it themselves, or they do and freeze it for months on end. Which is fine, but I'm going for a more homemade, fresh taste that I just don't think fondant has.
You could always do a crusting buttercream, those look gorgeous!
I'm going to be doing a buttercream taste testing soon - I have four recipes I want to try!
fondant is gross! hehe
so if you are going for taste do butter cream
BUTTA-CREAM!!!! I know, I know...fondant has a beautiful texture/smoooooothness going on. Nice and all, but I am pretty much obsessed with cake...and I just can't convince myself that the taste of fondant is worth the look. More power to those brides who love the taste! I just happen to prefer the deliciousness of buttercream and give up a bit of the visual-ness.
Buttercream FTW. Fondant cakes are beautiful, but I don't like the taste of them - and to me, cake as all about the taste!
I loooove buttercream, and actually like the way it looks better than fondant most of the time (though of course you can't do as many elaborate things with it). I love the look of smooth, soft icing! But we have to have fondant on our cake (I guess we don't *have* to, but both our caterer and our baker strongly recommended it) because we're getting married in the dead heat of summer and it will protect the buttercream inside from melting all over the place.
Buttercream. They can both be part of tasty, beautiful cakes, but eating bad fondant (the majority of fondant) is like eating plastic.
I've tried several different types of fondant- marshmallow, white chocolate, flavored and personally don't think any of them hold a candle to buttercream. After I found myself saying "Well this isn't that horrible" I realized that I would rather use something that I actually enjoyed and adjusted my design accordingly. For some looks though, fondant is probably the way to go.
I love taste of buttercream, but hey we're getting married in August in FL, so it has to be fondant for all practicality.
we had a marzipan covering on our cake. I think it works essentially like fondant but I actually liked the taste
I do like the taste of fondant but after eating so much left over cake with it, I'm kind of sick of it! Doesn't help that we had to eat our top tier a month after the wedding.
@ejs: It's funny you mention marzipan. As I was replying to this post I was thinking about my sister's delicous homemade marzipan! I hadn't thought about it covering a cake.
I'm having fondant on my cake. All fondants have frosting underneath the fondant. Anyone who does't like fondant can easily pull it off, so they'll suck it up or else.
Fondant looks beautiful, but cake is meant to be eaten...not looked at. So thus I choose buttercream because it tastes better.
Buttercream definitely. Fondant is strictly for aesthetics as most people don't eat it and it goes straight in the trash. It's also labor intensive for the baker, which comes at a higher cost to you as the consumer.
I am one of the people that loves the taste of fondant, so yep, there will be fondant. If they don't like it, they can peel it off.
I think that fondant is pretty, but that is the only thing that it has going for it. I love buttercream! YUM!!!
To the above posters re: all fondant has buttercream underneath, this actually explained a recent experience to me! I went to a wedding where the icing was fondant but they didn't 'glue' it on with buttercream. The icing pretty much 'fell off' the individual pieces after they cut the cake, which perplexed me - but this explains the mystery!
I wanted my guests to not only love the look of my cake, but the taste too, so buttercream!
I don't really like the look of fondant. It doesn't look like it taste's good. (Which to me it doesn't.) Or that it is really edible. I love the look of buttercream, how it looks like something your mom or grandma will make. It just reminds of love, and summer days, birthdays, and just all the joy of celebrations I had growing up! So do buttercream!
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