No. Fondant is made for a cake meant for looks. Icing is made for a regular cake.
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No. You do not have to put icing under the fondant on a cake. You can bake a cake and not put any icing on it and just put fondant on it if you wish. No law forces you to put icing on the cake. With that said, How do you plan to stop the icing at the edge of the fondant? Which will you apply first? Normally sugar in the the icing causes it to stick to the cake and also causes the fondant to stick to the icing. So if you have messy people eating your cakes and do not want the fondant to fall off the plates onto the rug as they walk around the living room at a party, it would be best to use icing as a glue.
Fondant
Almost any cake can be iced using fondant, but some cakes work better than others. Firmer cakes (white, yellow, chocolate, vanilla, bundt, devil's food, etc.) work better with fondant than soft or delicate cakes (angelfood, for example).
store bought fondant is not as good as it looks. what i think is that homemade fondant is by far the best. bakers usually put butter cream to make it taste better. hope this helped.
i would say yes but to make it look good you want to first crumb coat it so what you do is simply add a very thin layer of frosting and refrigerate then take it out and frost it its better this way it helps for crumbs not to come off and it looks OS much nicer either that or buy fondant add a very small layer of frosting to your cake and put the fondant and it looks very nice that is actually what bakers do Let me know if this helped you out =)
It's called Fondant. I learned this from watching Cake Boss. They pretty much roll it out and cut it to the appropriate size and lay it across the cake. It looks professional and is edible.
I know which episode you are talking about and it is called fondant!
God no. Icing the cake (crumb layer), allow it to refrigerate over night, put another (perfect) layer of icing over the crumb layer then apply your fondant
You can, but since fondant is used mainly for its smooth appearance and not used as a 'solo frosting', you first need to ice the cake with a cream cheese frosting, which is the more commonly used frosting for carrot cakes. The fondant can then be added on top of that for decorating purposes if you like.
Fondant is basically a mix of sugar, glycerine, and gelatin that is put over normal frosting on a cake. It's almost like a thick frosting, but it's not very flexible once it starts to dry a little.
fondant fondant is the stuff proffestionals use on their cakes afterwords they usually add decorations. very hard to work with but very fun! =D