Posts Tagged: fondant

Is Fondant Making a Comeback? The Great Cake Decorating Debate

Celebration cake contrasting vintage piped buttercream with smooth sugarpaste and sharp ganache-covered edges.

For the past few years, buttercream cakes have dominated our social media feeds. We’ve seen rustic finishes, palette-knife flowers, vintage piping and deliberately imperfect textures everywhere. Meanwhile, sugarpaste, often called fondant, has sometimes been dismissed as dated, too sweet or something guests simply peel off before eating. But cake decorating trends have a habit of…