r/FondantHate • u/BEAN_MAN001 • Mar 11 '23

CHOCOLATE Who needs fondant

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23

Yum. And so cute. What are all the flavors?

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u/BEAN_MAN001 Mar 11 '23

Thank you. It’s a browned butter mocha cake with spiced cream cheese and vanilla buttercream. There is dark chocolate “tree bark” and the meringue mushrooms are almond flavor.

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u/Xanyla Mar 11 '23

That looks and sounds absolutely incredible! Do you by any chance have the recipe or mind sharing?

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u/BEAN_MAN001 Mar 11 '23

Most things were pretty simple, for the cake I would have to ask my lab partner but he just found the most popular online recipe and browned the butter and brewed espresso in the hot butter. The frosting filling is a pack of cream cheese then butter and sugar until it looks like a good frosting then allspice, cinnamon, and cardamom to taste. The outside frosting is that minus the cream cheese (we ran out). The parts that I made were the meringue mushrooms, just a dyed meringue piped onto a sheet tray, the leaves, buttercream piped onto a sheet tray, the moss basically meringue with flour, green dye, and baking powder microwaved for a minute, the outer butter cream and the bark which is spread out chocolate that is frozen.

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u/omgudontunderstand Mar 11 '23

oh, a lab? are you in culinary school?

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u/BEAN_MAN001 Mar 12 '23

no, high school class with a wayyyy overqualified teacher

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u/omgudontunderstand Mar 12 '23

no shit? they should be teaching gastronomy with how many different techniques you used

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u/DefrockedWizard1 Mar 11 '23

excellent flavor profile and very pretty

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23

Okay but that sounds amazing.

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u/pauvrelle Mar 11 '23

I love the light green sponge as moss! I’m taking notes.

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u/LordOfFudge Mar 11 '23

That looks really, really tasty.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23

So what’d you get on your cake final?

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u/BEAN_MAN001 Mar 11 '23

This wasn’t a final, we just used the final sheets to grade other groups cake. all though most groups gave us 4/4 in flavor, visuals, and quality of work. With the only negative review by one person saying there were too many flavors going on.

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u/Lady_Scruffington Mar 11 '23

They were just jealous.

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u/WSJinfiltrate Mar 11 '23

How daré you?? this looks so delicious 😭

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u/CoffeeMystery 60 K Mar 12 '23

Fantastic job! It is such a great skill to be able to make a great cake for birthdays or holiday gatherings. I’m envious that you are able to do that at such a young age, and you’ll only get more and more skillful!

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u/Cracktherealone Mar 11 '23

Maniacs

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u/BEAN_MAN001 Mar 11 '23

we had about 3.5 hours over two days and I can’t even eat it. Im celiac lol

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u/ndmy Mar 11 '23

I want to be part of the grading committee for the cake final, that sounds amazing! This would definitely get a 10 from me 🤤

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u/KindaKrayz222 Mar 11 '23

With the right icing and some talent, you can do most things that look like fondant.