the.com/fondant
The icing that trades 'delicious' for 'photographs beautifully,' and never apologizes.
means A smooth, sweet sugar paste used to coat or decorate cakes, prized far more for its sleek, moldable finish than for how it actually tastes.
from From French fondant, meaning 'melting,' the present participle of fondre, 'to melt' — tracing back to the Latin fundere, 'to pour.' The name describes the mixture's original state in the kitchen, when boiled sugar syrup is worked into a smooth, pliable cream, not the stuff you peel off a wedding cake and set aside.
- origin
- French for melting, which it does not do
- texture
- basically edible playdough made of sugar
- cake decorators
- love it for smoothness, not flavor
- wedding cakes
- often peeled off and left on plates