I guess I've found my handicap: Petit Fours, those itty bitty cakes covered in poured fondant. The torting and filling weren't difficult, the cutting without disturbing my neat little stacks was irritating, making the poured chocolate fondant wasn't difficult, but actually pouring it over each little square and trying to get every part of the edges covered was disastrous!!! What did I do wrong? I had them on cooling racks! It just didn't get everywhere and it didn't completely drain down the rack, so it kind of goobered down the sides! Since it hadn't covered, I poured more on.....which made it worse, more goobering. THEN ran out of fondant and decided to melt some chocolate. ALso did not cover sides. They were straight!!!! What's my issue? I think I just don't have the patience for these, and now I know why they are so expensive. I'll just order a box from Swiss Colony next time I want some. Thank goodness I was just playing around and they weren't really for anyone!!! Argh!

Oh, and now they're completely stuck to the rack!!!

LOL - your petit fors sound just like mine.

the first time, I got such a mass of poured fondant built up on them they looked like lumpy pastel rocks. and they didn't taste much better, either. Did you see the Petit For thread in "how to"? Take a look at how nice they come out in the pictures when molds were used.

On my subsequent tries - I fared a tad better, by freezing them and then dipping as opposed to pouring - and I used ganache instead of fondant - but they were still nothing to crow about.

I want the molds. My birthday is in April - and they are top on my list.

tastycakes - I had the exact same troubles with the poured fondant as you have described. From a few petit four veterans here at CC, I think we figured out that I didn't have the fondant hot enough. In the end, I didn't care for the taste of the fondant...much too sugary & overpowered the taste of the cake. I think I'll try ganache next time and dip them. Sorry this happened to you, but know that you're not alone!

They taste really good though! My father stopped by and saw my mess, and being a man he felt the need to offer a solution rather than empathy: "Try dipping them next time!" Thanks dad. Will do. Cake mix:$1.00, Poured fondant ingredients:$1.00, sympathy on Cakecentral: priceless. Thanks everyone!