I am very new to cookie decorating and noticed people referring to fondant on cookies..... is this poured fondant? I don't get it

Also, is there any way to decorate the cookie background fast, all in one color? Like maybe a pourable frosting that covered the top and the excess dripped away and then let them dry before you start decorating ( like you would frost ganache on a cake) I'm sure this is a weird question - i just hate, hate, hate royal icing so very much!

Well, normally the fondant they are talking about is regular fondant. Many people here use MMF. I've heard it tastes yummy. I plan on trying it tonight, very excited.

I've done poured fondant, but it was hard with color. The color kept getting darker.

The fastest, I think, would be using a fondant. Use the same cookie cutter as you did to cut your cookies with. Use corn syrup to stick the fondant to your cookies.

Good luck

Where can I see pictures of fondant cookies? Is this a new thing or am I just really slow

You can use Alice's cookie icing-similar to royal. I dip mine, just the face of the cookie, let it drip some and set it on a rack. Before it is completely dry, I move them to scrape off the handing drips, so they will lay flat.

You can also use poured fondant, if you like that.

For using regular fondant, you can cut the same shape as the cutter and place it on the cookie, or you can wrap the face of the cookie in fondant and just pinch around the lower edge to remove the excess fondant. I use the for wedding cake cookies, mostly.

Here is a beauitful site. Either their covered with fondant, or she is damn good!

http://www.flourpotcookies.com/index.asp

I bought their book, in it they say they use fondant on all of their cookies.

So, taste-wise, how are the fondant cookies? They are terribly impressive but I am wondering about the MMF.... people can't peel it off and eat the frosted cake underneath if they don't like 'em

I have hears lots of good things about Alice's icing recipe - I just never understood the whole royal icing thing.... it's brittly and super sweet and I think a BC type icing tastes so much better on a cookie but the royal looks better..... I am still trying to find my happy medium before the cookie months are here

I just started using fondant on cookies and I love it. It is fast and easy. I just use the same cookie cutter and while the cookies bake I roll out the MMF and cut it with the same cutter. When the cookies come out of the oven I put the MMF on the cookie even before I take it off the cookie sheet. It kind of melts and sticks right there. By the time the cookie is cooled it is ready to decorate and already has a backround color on it!!

i used fondant with my first cookies..so easy!u can never go wrong...i put them on top of the cookies right after taking them out of the oven..or just like what manatee said, corn syrup..they tasted yummy!

Click on my photos link below to see some examples of cookies. The background on the scooby and spongebob cookies are both fondant. The rest is toba garrets glace icing.

On cake I am not too fond of fondant, LOL. But on the cookies it's really good. And I have used a modified royal icing that has butter in it so it doesn't break a tooth.

I think that whatever you put on your cookies is a matter of preference in taste. Royal is definitely crunchy and hard, the poured icing is softer, the cut out fondant will have a chewy texture just like on a cake. By the way on that Flour pot site, they all look like cut fondant, outlined in RI, and decorations in Royal. I can see the advantage of the fondant, a whole lot less handling of cookie. I suppose the MMF might be good.

I just decorated some cookies in fondant yesterday. It was like playing with clay. Really easy and fun. I then decorated some of them with royal icing and they look really nice. I will post a picture later on. Try the fondant it's fun. The taste is nice. My husband, who does not have a sweet tooth at all, though they were good. And believe me he tells me when he doesn't like something. Hope this helps. If you try the fondant tell us how it goes.
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I just tried MMF on some train cookies last night and my husband couldn't believe how great they looked...it was so easy too! I'm accenting with RI but all in all, I'll be using this again, it was great and tastes yummy too!

rolled fondant is the way to go with cookies, I won't do a cookie another way any more. The thing about fondant is most people don't object to the taste of fondant (except for wiltons brand) its normally the texture of the fondant on a nice light cake that is the turn off. The texture of a sugar cookie is so much denser then a cake that the fondant compliments it so nicely.

There are a couple of pictures in my photos of cookies all of them are done in fondant.

I think a lot of fondant on a cake is sooooooooooo sweet..........where with a cookie especially a sugar cookie you can put less sugar in it to accomodate the fondant!!

OK, this is somthing I do a LOT.. I only ice my cookies w/ Fondant,
NOT the the poured fondant.. I don't like poured Fondant.
You can flavor the Fondant.. I love icing my cookies w/ Fondant..It is not messy, no waiting and most of all it always comes out
clean, no drips or anything like that... I lnow I've posted this before, but here are my photos..thanks for looking

How hard does the fondant get when used on a cookie?

I covered a cake in fondant and the fondant stayed relatively soft. But the ruffles I made out of the fondant dried really hard. Does the small thing happen with a cookie?

the cookie will keep the fondant soft for a while, but even if the fondant gets hard its not as hard as royal icing. I roll my fondant for cookies much thinner then i do for a cake, so its not like it would be hard enough to break a tooth.