To discuss about some common myths about Fondant cakes, it is important to know what is Fondant? Sugar Paste is an edible icing used to decorate cakes. It is made from sugar, water, corn syrup and mix of natural gums to produce a dough like consistency. It is very important to understand that for modelling and giving structure to a cake it is necessary to use fondant because of its texture. Whipped cream such as Tropolite or Rich or butter cream does not have the same texture or consistency which is required to give shapes or structures which can be made to stand. Often, customers comes to us requesting theme cakes and fondant design cakes involving fondant human figures cake or fondant cartoon characters cake or musical instruments cake. So at CakesandBakes.in we explain and demonstrate to them showing our vast collection of fondant theme cakes what kind of cakes can be made in cream and what in fondant.
Similarly it is also a misconception that fondant cakes tend to be extremely sweet in taste. While it is true that fondant inherently a paste made of sugar, but fondant now-a-days is not what we have found in cakes for yesteryear or what we have experienced in our childhood. It is a much more refined and palatable material manufactured by reputed brands such as Confect, Nandi and so on. Fondant comes in variety of colours such as red, blue, yellow, green, pink and so on as well as metallic colours such as golden, silver, rose gold and much more. People who follow the myth tend to think that it contains strong food colours which can be harmful for kids but they should know that fondant is made using refined materials which pass through rigorous certification process and norms set by FSSAI and FOSCOS under Govt. of India.
To break the myth we would also like to mention it is 100% vegetarian, gluten-free, lactose-free and Trans Fat free. Another common myth is fondant cannot be stored for long while it is true that fondant figures created in a theme cake could probably go hard or sweat if kept in open but before creation fondant can be stored for months.
