Fondant: Most people avoid fondant for two reasons. The taste and the cost. Personally I just am not a fan of the texture, but my kids love it. This is the first cake I made with fondant. Although it is super cute, it tasted HORRID! I used the Wilton ready to roll junk. It was pricey and stinky and YUCKY!!!
Thankfully, someone in my class passed on a delicious homemade recipie. It cuts the cost and it tastes great! My friends says it reminds her of those circus peanut candies. The chocolate tastes like a tootsie roll according to another friend. So here are some cakes I've made with my own fondant.
Fake cake: I know a lot of people will make cakes from styrofoam or other materials to cut costs, mostly on wedding cakes. Well, this drives me nuts! I dealt with this when looking for my own wedding cake. The thing is, it doesn't save that much money and you can't eat it. At the same time, a lot of people don't eat or serve the cake so that is fine. My solution was taught to me by a friend. Use rice krispy treats. They taste great, kids love them, they are super easy to work with, and they are so inexpensive to make!!! Here are a couple cakes made in part or whole from rice krispies.
This entire "cake" is rice krispie because the family doesn't like cake.
Again, the dress is made from rice krispies.
