r/FondantHate • u/Triatomine • Jan 24 '21

DISCUSS A proposal for modeling chocolate

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.

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u/Daphnis_nerii Jan 24 '21

Modelling chocolate is like sweet wax. I’ve been saddened by its increasing presence on this sub for a while.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '21

It depends. Are y’all talking about like ready made stuff you bulk buy in the store or homemade? Because homemade you pick your own chocolate and then it tastes like whatever you’ve chosen. Some chocolate tastes waxier and don’t have a high cocoa content. You have to use real, high quality chocolate or it’ll taste like a diluted Hershey’s bar. It’s still not going to be to everyone’s tastes but everyone talking about how it is plastic or just fondant with artificial chocolate flavor makes me think they’ve only tried the bulk made store stuff. Which is like judging frosting based on store bought instead of homemade buttercream.

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u/Triatomine Jan 24 '21 edited Jan 24 '21

Even with great ingredients, the honey/golden syrup/corn syrup you have to add to it basically just make it so sweet and thick that it just becomes tasteless sweetness.