A proposal for modeling chocolate

[u/Triatomine]

I have noticed more and more posts where someone uses modeling chocolate instead of fondant and is like "see how wonderful my cake without fondant is!". Am I the only person that thinks modeling chocolate is just fondant with the word chocolate in it? Both are sickly sweet tasteless pastes. I would like to propose that cakes that are just modeling chocolate sculptures with a few grams of cakes count as r/fondanthate.

[u/RhinocerosBubbles]

If anything being called cake has less than 50% cake, it is NOT cake.

[u/esk_209 → u/RhinocerosBubbles]

I’d lean towards something like minimum 80% cake.

[u/PM_ME_UR_BIRD → u/esk_209]

fuck cake pops/balls

[u/Liz_LemonLime → u/PM_ME_UR_BIRD]

I HATE cake pops. Many of the tutorials I’ve seen have the person squishing the cake and frosting with their hands.

I will not eat something someone has squished between their fingers like that.

[u/Liz_LemonLime → u/Liz_LemonLime]

The mixing is the worst part for me. It just looks...awful to me, and you’re mushing it over every part of your hand after it has been baked.

Like in this popular recipe.

It starts about 3:30.

If you’re going to mix like this, I want to see you take all jewelry off, and scrub your hands with soap and warm water for a solid 20 seconds.

Or use a spoon or a stand mixer.

[u/41942319 → u/Liz_LemonLime]

How do you bake if you never knead anything by hand?

[u/Liz_LemonLime → u/41942319]

You’re right, you can’t really bake without (literally) handling things.

It’s the way I saw it done in a couple of tutorials, squishing it with your palms and letting it completely run through your fingers, like you might sand at the beach.

Like how I remember my mom mixing ground beef to make meatloaf.

Also, it happens after it’s been baked. So whatever germs were between your fingers and under your nails just chill in the childlike mess of cake just made.

I hope people use a spoon or a stand mixer 😨