Soft candy has excellent ductility, which can create various shapes and perfectly display fine features. The artistry of modeling is unparalleled, which fully embodies the perfect combination of personality and art and has become the mainstream of cake decoration today! With its luxurious, exquisite and unique fashion elements, fudge cake is not only used for wedding banquets, but also widely used for anniversaries, birthdays, celebrations and even gifts between friends! Both fondant cakes and fondant cupcakes attract people's attention.
The fondant cake is really beautiful but not delicious. All colors are food pigments. Because it is handmade, the price is relatively high. The fondant cake is different from the cream or cream cake we usually eat. Before shaping, soft candy is a kind of sugar skin, which is mainly composed of glucose syrup, white chocolate, powdered sugar and gelatin tablets. Its ductility is excellent, like plasticine, soft, can pinch people, flowers and animals, and its plasticity is very strong, which is why the soft candy is so beautiful.
Large-scale activities like weddings require cakes to be exposed to the air all day, and ordinary cakes simply can't hold up. In addition to its beautiful appearance, the fudge cake itself is like a protective layer of the cake. After drying, it will harden and be better preserved.
Speaking of fondant cake, what's your first impression? Is it expensive, beautiful in shape or ugly? I think that when most friends talk about fudge, almost all these adjectives will come to mind.
However, as a private bakery owner who has been in business for more than 8 years, I want to say that there may still be many misunderstandings about fondant cakes. Let me talk to you about my fudge cake. As for why cake shops rarely sell fondant cakes, I believe you will know after reading them.
What is fudge? It's a transliteration of fondant. Refers to a way of cake decoration. Just like a cake decorated with cream, cream decoration is also a way of cake decoration. Fancy sugar is an edible "sugar mud" with a texture similar to plasticine, which is made of sugar powder, protein powder, water, Taylor powder, white oil and so on. Of course, fudge is a general term, and there are some finer classifications. The different proportions of raw materials make the finished soft candy have different softness and drying speed, and have different uses: some are suitable for paving the whole cake surface, some are suitable for making 3D dolls, and some are suitable for making realistic flowers.
Soft candy has good plasticity. It really looks like plasticine. You can extrude any shape you want. Therefore, the fondant cake is well decorated, and the dolls and shapes made are very realistic. As long as the producer's skills are good enough, he can make very complicated shapes.
Speaking of this, some friends have questions: So what's the difference between it and ordinary cakes?
The difference from ordinary cake is 1, and the cake embryo is also different.
We in China prefer soft and delicate cakes, such as Qifeng, so most birthday cakes in China are based on Qifeng cake.
The fondant cake is different, because the fondant shape is heavier, and a soft cake like Qifeng is not suitable. The cake embryo will collapse when the finished shape is put on, so the fondant cake needs a thicker cake with stronger load-bearing capacity, at least a sponge cake will be used. If there are many layers and the shape is complicated, use a stronger pound cake.
2. Different fillings
Because birthday cakes are made of Qifeng cake embryos, they are often served with whipped cream, and the fillings are usually fresh fruits or jam.
Because of its material characteristics, fondant cake is sugar after all, so it will melt when it touches water, such as whipped cream with high water content. Therefore, the fondant cake must not be covered and filled with whipped cream, because whipped cream can't support the weight of fondant. The fondant cake is made of cream icing and stuffing, not with fruit.
3. Different ways of eating
Not to mention the common birthday cakes.
Fondant cakes are basically covered with a layer of sugar, and there are many shapes and decorations on them. Please note that although these decorations are "edible", they are often not eaten. First, the soft candy will become hard and not delicious after molding. Second, these shapes are not for eating, but can be taken down as a souvenir. The layer of sugar crust that wraps the cake is actually very sweet and is generally not recommended. Let's eat the cake in the middle.
The reason why cake shops rarely sell fondant cakes After talking about the characteristics of fondant cakes, everyone should be able to see the reason why cake shops sell less.
1, not suitable for China people's taste.
Foreigners eat very sweetly, especially Europeans and Americans. They basically don't have Qifeng cake, but we eat lightly and don't like thick cakes, so the most popular combination is Qifeng embryo+whipped cream. Many people are not used to cream, which is too greasy.
2, fondant cakes are often more expensive.
One reason is that fondant cake is much more expensive than Qifeng cake. You see, cake embryos need butter, and cream cream also needs butter and cream. The cost of cream cream is much higher than that of whipped cream, and the yield is also smaller than that of whipped cream: that is to say, a cake of the same size needs to be smeared, and cream cream is used more. In addition, the price of soft candy itself is not low: the overall cost is rising.
Another reason is that the production of fondant needs a lot of time, money and energy to learn, and the learning cost is relatively high, and the production of fondant modeling is more time-consuming and laborious. Ordinary fondant cakes take several hours, and large and complicated cakes will take longer.
3. Views
Everyone thinks that fudge is expensive and not delicious, and they will not choose it for their birthdays. Many times, our private bakery will only receive the list of fondant cakes at the wedding dessert table and the activities of some enterprises, because it is very attractive to put them there, which will improve the grade of the whole dessert table a lot. Maybe everyone subconsciously thinks that fudge is only suitable for these big occasions.
But now some friends who value customization will also choose fondant cake, but this kind of fondant cake is not quite the same as the traditional one. It no longer uses fondant to wrap noodles, but only uses fondant to knead some lovely shapes as decoration. Because the decorations are not too big, you can still choose Qifeng cake embryo with cream, such as the following:
We still make a lot of these fudge cakes. It is healthier to use soft candy as decoration to add color to the cake than to use some inedible plastic doll ornaments. Moreover, this little decorated fondant cake is not much more expensive than ordinary cream cake, and everyone can accept its price.
As a kind of cake, fondant cake has excellent appearance, but as a kind of cake, its taste is really average. You can find that in all kinds of online fondant tutorials, dried cake embryos are basically used as the base. Can this be delicious?
But that doesn't mean nobody likes it. I had a senior during my internship, the one with white skin and long legs. She has a strong artistic foundation, but she is just the kind of cold and unruly beauty. After she couldn't stand the pressure brought by education, she resolutely resigned and started a business with her friends. One is making fondant cakes, and the other is in charge of wedding promotion. Now she is doing well in her own field, so delicious things are not necessarily beautiful.
Let's share with you a few works of China's post-80s Sugar King-Zhouyi's Chinese Wind Turning to Sugar.
Simply put, fondant cake is not delicious, and it takes a lot of time to make it. For cake shops, efficiency and price are the most critical. Making that simple and easy-to-bake cake has more market value.
Moreover, to make a good fondant cake, it really needs craftsmanship, which is much higher than the skill needed to make a cake alone. So many people don't want to touch this. Ok, let's enjoy those exquisite fondant cakes, the winning works of China players in the international fondant cake competition some time ago.
Because it looks good or not.
My answer
The demand for fondant cakes is small, time-consuming and laborious, and cake shops rarely sell fondant cakes ~
I used to run a cake shop, where there were fondant cakes, but in terms of sales, I couldn't sell any for more than a few months. I don't know if you know that fondant cake is a foreign art cake. How do you say this cake?
It's the kind that is not delicious but colorful. As for the specific use, all kinds of business gatherings, activities and exhibitions are needed. Some people will say, can't fondant cakes be used in birthday scenes?
I can tell you clearly that although fondant cake can be used as a birthday scene, I don't recommend it, because on the one hand, it is expensive, on the other hand, it tastes bad, and some friends may not know it.
A small fudge cake costs hundreds to thousands of dollars. If it is a large fondant cake, it will cost at least several thousand dollars. However, there are several fondant cakes acceptable at this price, and I estimate that there are very few.
Therefore, not many people buy this cake alone. As to how bad this cake tastes, there are many flavors. If you don't believe me, just look at the materials. According to my experience in making fudge cakes,
When making fondant cakes, milk is essential, coffee is essential, and decorative seasonings are also essential. In short, a fondant cake needs at least dozens of materials. Since there are many materials, it must be all kinds of flavors.
Foods that have not been stored for a long time, such as cakes, only sell well. If it meets the public's taste, the production will be large. Fancy cakes are not available in all stores, but they are not easy to buy and most of them need to be customized.
I am a beginner in sugar making, and now I am exploring my own practices and hobbies. First of all, fondant cakes are mostly used at wedding banquets and cocktail parties. The specific taste is in the field of cake shops. Just make the fudge look good. In fact, cake shops can make cakes beautifully by recruiting part-time jobs, that is, if there are orders, let part-time people come and make them well, and cake shops can also save money and make cakes more beautiful.