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fondant

fondant

5 4.7
A sweet, thick sugar paste used to coat or fill cakes and candies
  • noun
  • /ˈfɒndənt/
  • Specialized
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  • Cover it in rainbow stripes of marshmallow fondant and use marshmallows to build clouds underneath, pasting with frosting. Great birthday surprise.
  • rolled fondant
  • fondant icing
  • fondant cake

You're going to take a little bit of brown fondant, Just lay it down.

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Examples

  • For those into cakes and cupcakes, they have an amazing selection of decorations from cake pans, cupcake toppers, cupcake stands, fondant, sugar decorations, edible cake images, and more!

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  • This is grey fondant and I am beyond impressed at the incredible color match.

  • I made all of these fondant pieces in advance.

  • I covered the cake and the board with white fondant and left it to set.

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  • I covered it in black fondant and made the Dark Side of the Moon cover album on it.

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  • I used fondant to cover the top and told the girls I used a special "potion" to bake the cake.

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  • I used my Rice Krispie treats to make a cylinder shape for the hat and covered it with black fondant.

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  • These cute little fondant toppers are great on cupcakes, especially for dessert post-dinner feasts!

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  • A friend made a sculpted birthday cake with colored polka dots of white chocolate fondant (which was so beautiful one could have entered it in a contest, if one did that sort of thing).

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  • The cake was beautifully covered in smooth fondant that made it look like a work of art.

Synonyms

candy
vsfondant
  • US
863 1.0

A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts

is a specific thick creamy sugar paste used for coating and filling cakes
buttercream
vsfondant
9 2.4

A sweet creamy icing made from butter and sugar for decorating cakes and pastries

is a thick sugar paste used as filling or coating rather than butter-based icing

How Thick

fondant
  • Specialized
5 4.7
buttercream
9 2.4
ice
117 1.0
frosting
  • US
49 1.0
glaze
43 3.7

Surface Forms

fondant singular
fondants plural

Etymology

Fondant comes from the French fondre, which means 'to melt', and is the same root as fondue. So a fondant is a soft, creamy sugar paste that seems to 'melt' into cakes or your mouth, which is why the name fits its smooth, melting quality.