Fondant Accents On Whipped Icing????
Decorating By Moofiebonbon Updated 10 Mar 2017 , 10:19pm by LizzieAylett
Good Morning! I just got a call from someone that wants a 1/2 sheet cake with whipped topping icing in pink with black zebra stripes in fondant. Is this something that will work? I have limited fondant experience and am wondering if this would be a disaster.
I told the lady I would call her back shortly, so any help will be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Do you mean Bettercreme/Pastry Pride type whipped icing? I have read on here that you cannot frost a cake with this type icing and cover with fondant. I think it melts the fondant, but if someone else has more experience by all means go with that.
I have topped it with accents - which I think is what she asked about. Honestly, I've never covered a complete cake in fondant over whipped cream icing. I have no clue what would happen then.
I was also wondering if you can put fondanted accents on whipped iced cakes or not?? AND would it bleed on that icing? I'm curious too.
the water in the whipped cream will dissolve the fondant! I put some fondant flowers on a whipped cream cheese icing and the flowers dissolved and lost their shape- I learned my lesson!
I don,t think it will work either. I think you will have a black smudge mess, with the black fondant zebra stripes oozing onto the whipped icing(of course with the whipped icing causing it).
Why not try whipped cream buttercream (in recipes) - a compromise? It's not whipped cream but it's nice and light (and less sweet than regular BC) and you can make it crust by adding more meringue. Then you won't have the bleeding issues with the black fondant.
the water in the whipped cream will dissolve the fondant! I put some fondant flowers on a whipped cream cheese icing and the flowers dissolved and lost their shape- I learned my lesson!
Water? There isn't any water in any of my icings. Maybe that's why I never had an issue. Water in cream cheese icing or whipped cream icing? I can't get my mind around that.
Just shows how different recipes can be.
hmmm. cause we sometimes add milk to BC. Wouldn't it be the same? We can place fondant on BC.
I would think milk would have a higher water content than cream. I'm not being argumentative. This just doesn't make sense to me when you consider milk has been thinned down a whole lot more than whipping cream.
Now, I get that whipped cream is thinner after being whipped. But not necessarily more watery. And I really don't get not putting fondant on cream cheese icing as someone stated above. I do that all the time.
Good Morning! I just got a call from someone that wants a 1/2 sheet cake with whipped topping icing in pink with black zebra stripes in fondant. Is this something that will work? I have limited fondant experience and am wondering if this would be a disaster.
I told the lady I would call her back shortly, so any help will be greatly appreciated.
TIA
never had a problem I always use pastry pride is a non dairy whipp toping and bettercream whipp icing. when I use the pastry pride I add like a tea spoon or table spoon of merengue powder. and never had problems I just did a Dora b-cake last week I can send you the picture if you want but nothing happen the cake or the fondant accents.
I use fondant as accents and the only problem I had was when the fondand pieces were too thick. The weight of some on the sides started to slide, so I would just roll and make them thin as possible. I also put the finished cake in the fridge until ready to deliver. I think if the pieces i use was black, I would let dry a bit, or make and color a day or two ahead so fondant w/b pliable but not too soft.
I made some cupcakes with Pastry Pride whipped icing and put on a fondant strawberry which I cut out of CalJava's red Elite fondant (the fondant was fresh with no gum paste). 30 minutes later when I delivered the cupcakes the red fondant strawberry "accent piece" had melted into a gooey mess. Yuck! Fortunately, the cupcakes were for my BFF so she just scraped off the red fondant ooze and enjoyed the cupcakes.
When I asked about this on a forum I was told by several people to let the fondant REALLY harden and don't put on until the last possible moment before serving. That horrible episode pretty much fixed any future intentions about fondant and Pastry Pride.
OP, everything I've heard so far about whipped icing (I've only used Pastry Pride) is that you can make flowers and borders etc. but you have to work very fast and keep the icing cold. I've also been advised that you usually cannot get bright, primary colors--only pastels--with Pastry Pride.
I use Rich's Bettercreme. I had no problems with fondant, even stored it in the fridge after decorating.
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Barney's cake in my pics is a 3 Leches totally covered in Bettercream and decorated with Duff's fondant cutouts. I let decorations dry for 2 days then brushed melted white chocolate in the bottoms. Placed the accents on cake at least 3 hours before delivering. Was told the cake stood perfectly until cutting, no bleeding, melting BTW, I live on a very humid weather that wouldnt help much either
I put fondant on a cake with whipped icing and it melted some of the fondant and made the rest sticky. Good thing i found out before i delivered the cake. If someone put these 2 together on a cake and nothing happened i would like to try out their recipes for each and see for myself.
Perhaps an alternative would be to use modelling chocolate instead of fondant? That won't melt into the cream.
Or you could put a thin coating of melted chocolate on the back of each fondant piece to act as a barrier, but that would be rather fiddly.
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