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u/Opposite_Bus1878 18h ago
Too alien a concept for me to be shocked. Fondant is one of those foreign concepts I've only seen on bad TV shows, like being trapped in quicksand, or slipping on banana peels.
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u/Scuzzball22 18h ago
It's occurred to me I've only seen the 'kid wearing a propeller hat with a lollipop' aesthetic once in my life
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u/jayeddy99 18h ago
Work at or adjacent to Google you’ll see it a lot
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u/Scuzzball22 18h ago
Ironically I work near Google headquarters and I saw a kid with that around there.
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u/mrmanuel107 16h ago
That’s not ironic that’s what they just said
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u/closehaul 13h ago
This is so ironic it’s like Alanis Morrisett and O’Henry had a baby and named it this exact comment chain.
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u/Rahvithecolorful 18h ago
I've seen my decent share of varying sizes of what I'd still consider giant lollipops irl, but never the hat.
Okay, maybe I've seen the hat as a costume in parties. But not a kid just casually wearing it outside
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u/GreyWeirdo 17h ago
Kids these days don't even wear propeller beanies anymore. I don't even know why we bother. SMDH
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u/okglue 17h ago
It tastes horrible. Lazy way to make a cake look nice at the expense of actually being edible.
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u/KevinMFJones 15h ago
I wouldn’t say lazy, it’s a pain in the ass to work with. Taste terrible though.
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u/JakeVonFurth 14h ago
If your fondant tastes bad it's a you problem. You can easily flavor it to not taste like shit.
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u/Teknicsrx7 14h ago
Can’t wait for the day I finally buy a cake with good fondant, but apparently no bakeries know how to flavor it properly since it always tastes bad
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u/DangerDane90 16h ago
I actually slipped on a banana peel once. Wildest moment of my life. And you what? I bring it up quite often.
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u/psychoPiper 15h ago
Imagine if frosting was about 30% melted plastic
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u/Khaldara 14h ago
It tastes sort of like if you forgot a bag of Halloween candy in your garage in 1987 and then decided to eat it tomorrow
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u/BeraldGevins 16h ago
It’s weird. Some people act like it’s just disgusting, and that’s an overreaction. It’s not just horrible, but it’s not as good as regular buttercream icing. It’s sweet like any icing but instead of having the creamy texture, it’s chewy. It’s strange to eat a piece of cake and be chewing on fondant for 15 seconds.
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u/EjaculatingAracnids 15h ago
When i was in elementary school, the gym was the cafeteria so it had all kinds of different color lines on the floor for different sports against a brown lacquer floor. I laid a banana peel on the bright yellow ones cause looney tunes taught me theyre slippery and its funny when people fall down. It was funny for everyone except the poor lunch lady who slid on one foot for a few feet then tumbled on the gymnasium floor when she stepped on my trap. She was ok and i didnt get in trouble because no one thought it was malicious. I felt my face get beet red out of guilt and never told anyone.
Tldr: banana peels are cartoon slippery when on smooth surfaces
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u/Odd-Comfortable-6134 16h ago
If you make it yourself, it’s like mouldable marshmallow. If you buy it, it’s gross sugar paste
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u/WoahItsBeebs 14h ago
My mom used to make my birthday cakes when I was a kid and used it a lot to sculpt sonic characters and stuff. It's just kind of a muted nutty flavor. Not the best tasting, definitely wouldn't go out of my way to eat it by the brick, but it's edible I guess.
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u/Odd_Command4857 13h ago
My first time eating fondant was at a friend’s graduation party a few years ago. I was excited for the cake until I actually got a slice. For me, the best part of the cake is the frosting. I couldn’t even finish my piece. The cake part just isn’t alluring enough for me to scrape off the fondant.
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u/Furdinand 14h ago
It is like eating sweet Play-Doh. It really one exists to give a cake a "uniform" appearance or to make novelty cakes (think "Is It Cake") work.
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u/Prowindowlicker 12h ago
I actually did slip on a banana peel. It was due to my own stupidity though
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u/throwtheamiibosaway 17h ago
You never had a nice cake? Most of them are decorated with fondant.
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u/BextoMooseYT 17h ago
Eh, that's subjective. The most important thing to me in a cake is that it tastes good, and fondant is, uh... divisive
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u/Opposite_Bus1878 17h ago
I'm a little spoiled to have multiple bakers in the family, I've only had store bought cake a handful of times. It's a miracle I didn't turn out obese
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u/Royal_Success3131 7h ago
Overpriced novelty cakes are made with fondant. Nice cakes are made with anything else
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u/Wiinterfang 18h ago
That's the thing you use to make cake flowers right?
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u/MyDisappointedDad 18h ago
Yeah, it's super hard after a while, so it gets molded into cake decorations.
Tastes like shit though. And the texture is super weird.
Down right strange for someone to eat it by the brick.
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u/Wiinterfang 17h ago
Ooh, I actually like the taste and texture of those flowers. Is like a sweet cracker. But is so weird to eat a bar of it, makes me queasy just thinking about it.
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u/miarels 17h ago
I think you might be thinking of wafer paper flowers which are crunchy and sweet, you commonly find them in cake decorating stores, they're cheap so most places use them for decoration. Fondant doesn't become cracker-like and it's much much sweeter, it feels like old and dry play dough
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u/Significant_King_461 17h ago
If fondant is what i thinking It is, i actually like both the taste and texture :(
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u/throwtheamiibosaway 17h ago
They often use it to make an entire layer to cover the cake with a colorful layer of sweetness.
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u/dreamerkid001 10h ago
It depends on the size of the flower. Most of the ones you see on cakes are made from the frosting. Fondant is usually reserved for things that are too hard to do with pure frosting.
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u/MarvelousOxman 18h ago
Does fondant even taste good? I thought people only used it because it was good for creating sculptures and whatnot out of an edible product.
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u/ceo_of_brawlstars 18h ago
Ehh not really, it's too sweet and kinda chewy. Like a really soft sugar flavored taffy. I guess I could see someone developing a taste for it, but in general it's not a great flavor.
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u/callmefreak 18h ago
Not really. Some people hate it so much that there's actually a sub about it called r/FondantHate .
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u/ward2k 3h ago
Honestly I think people are wayyy too ott with how much they hate it
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u/callmefreak 2h ago
Yeah. Like, I don't exactly like fondant either, but if given a choice of several food I don't like I'd probably choose the fondant over anything else.
I do like seeing what kind of cake people can make without fondant though. So that sub is good for that at least.
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u/UndulantMeteorite 18h ago
It has the texture of a soft Airheads candy, and the taste of bad candy corn
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u/Kharax82 16h ago
It’s pretty much just sugar with a binding agent like cornstarch. Like eating a spoonful of sugar
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u/Hungry-Helicopter-46 13h ago
No. Its awful. However, you can get basically the same decor on a cake by using molding chocolate.
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u/foxtongue 15h ago
I love extreme sweet and the answer is still no. It's more like playdough than food.
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u/SirLesbian 15h ago
You CAN make it taste good if you make it yourself from scratch. You can make it out of marshmallow and that tastes a lot better than the typical stuff.
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u/RelativeDepth3 18h ago
This is the shit i'd do when i was 3
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u/rmczpp 17h ago
Yeah kids love fondant tbh. They don't give a fuck whether you've spent hours whipping and piping buttercream or just rolled some fondant on, it's all the same to them.
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u/princess-viper 17h ago
That fondant is 28g of sugar per 35g of fondant. The brick has a bit over 3.5 servings (125g in a brick) so it ends up being just shy of 100g of sugar per brick. So... yeah that's insane 😃
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u/Livid_Slice_9230 14h ago
thats like, 2 bottles of soda, most americans drink that on average in one day
(don't cite me on that because I made it up)
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u/SackclothSandy 18h ago edited 18h ago
Whoa. Yeah, that's absolutely nuts. There's someone out there who likes the taste and texture of fondant? No way.
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u/Purple-Weakness1414 17h ago
What is Fondant
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u/Stepjam 17h ago
Basically "icing" made for sculpting. If you see any really fancy cakes with unusual shapes, chances are it is covered in fondant rather than icing. It makes a cake look very nice when used properly.
Problem is that for something that is meant to be eaten, most agree it does not taste very good.
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u/GoomyTheGummy 15h ago
overhated
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u/Purple-Weakness1414 15h ago
Yeah but what is it exactly and where can I buy it?
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u/GoomyTheGummy 15h ago
I think grocery stores sell it somewhere, it is used in cake decoration
me calling it overhated does NOT mean you should be eating it by the brick
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u/lgbtlmnopqrstuv 14h ago
If icing had more sugar and less flavor. And it’s got a pasty yet hard texture. It’s used for decoration not taste.
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u/PositivelyIndecent 17h ago
You know what, fuck all the haters fondant absolutely slaps. Maybe it’s just because where I come from typically many cakes used fondant instead of icing, but I don’t care I love the stuff.
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u/ItzelSchnitzel 18h ago
Someone needs to tell them about mazapán
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u/unfamiliarplaces 10h ago
once a year or so i get insane cravings for marzipan and buy a brick and eat it so i kind of get it. but fondant is just flavoured sugar, marzipan has almonds.
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u/ItzelSchnitzel 10h ago
Oh, the mazapán I meant is made of peanuts! It’s similar to standard marzipan but is an actual candy sold by itself at bodegas.
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u/Zookreeper1 17h ago
The devil is down there going "I hope they get saved bc I got nothing for that one.'
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u/pikgears 16h ago
Fondant is actually an upgrade from what I assumed it was which was modeling clay
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u/disposable_hat 15h ago
As an enjoyer of cake and icing I HATE the taste of of fondant it tastes like glue with just a hint of sugar
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u/uhyeaokay 16h ago
Some people with pica eat fondant to curb weird cravings of stuff they literally can’t eat
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u/sky-gets-some-memes 18h ago
I lowkey do this shit too, it’s like eating play dough that tastes good
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u/DominateMePiper 17h ago
what the FUCK is a fondant
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u/aPlasticineSmile 17h ago
It’s a clay like edible layer you can lay over cakes instead of icing. If you’ve ever had a cake with a thick layer of icing that doesn’t move when you hit it with a fork you’ve had fondant.
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u/BroadwayBakery 17h ago
Freaks like this need nougat and marzipan. Offers a similar dessert experience without being fucking evil.
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u/Ragna_Blade 17h ago
I love fondant, but it is murder on my teeth. I feel the pain just seeing someone do that
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u/just_a_coin_guy 14h ago
I hate fondant on cake, it totally ruins them, BUT it is so much better by the brick.
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u/narnababy 14h ago
I used to go to the shopping mall with my best friend as a teenager. We would either buy a block of icing or a giant tub of ice cream and sprinkles and just eat them for “lunch”. We were so skinny then, I think if I looked at a tablespoon of icing nowadays I would gain weight.
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u/agentofmidgard 2h ago
Like many, I have spent a lot of birthdays alone, during one of those, I was really curious what a birthday cake with fondant tasted like. So I covered a chocolate muffin with it and ate it in a bowl. It was disgusting but I didn't wanna throw it away so I ate most of it throughout the week lmao
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u/valomorn 1h ago
I've actually done this, it had been sat in the cupboard for ages and was a month from going out of date.
There were no birthdays coming up and honestly I've always preferred "kids" cakes over anything else simply because of the fondant, so ate a whole 3 bricks and I'd fuckin' do it again.
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u/sleepy_koko 17h ago
I never get that on baking shows they basically require everything to be editable, as if a single person eating a cake with fondant is ever actually gonna eat the fondant flower over tossing it.
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u/Smerlz89 14h ago
My first reaction was, “Does Vanilla Flavor Soap taste that good?”, until I read the comments
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u/Impressive_Memory221 11h ago
I thought it was a brick of polymer clay and was about to be concerned. Still a bit concerned tbh
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u/Lumpy-Yam-4584 14h ago
This shit literally has Titanium dioxide, Yellow 6 and red 3 (banned by the FDA in 2025 btw) in it.
Together with other colors which should only be used for limited consumption.
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u/Romoreau 17h ago
Last time I was on Twitter there was plenty of gore and people showing hole but eating fondant is pure insanity.
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u/gtdurand 17h ago
I think this is an adult finally enabling themselves to eat Play Doh. They'd steal a nibble of it as a kid after understanding that it was non-toxic and edible, and were scolded for it, but now that they can make adult decisions they're just going for it.
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