I'm on the war path, look out baking world. I'm taking on this idea that fondant is the be all to end all when it comes to decorating cupcakes. Firstly fondant is foul and almost inedible and while it has it's place in full sized cake world, and I've seen amazing beautiful things done with it, especially by the cake god himself Duff Goldman but far too often it is over used on cupcakes and overpowers the cute little elegant cupcakes. Take the recent cutest cupcake competition run by Australian Good Taste magazine as an example of its top 10 winners 5 were covered in inedible fondant decoration, including first place, where the fondant teddy bear picnic was bigger than the actual cupcake. Wtf were the public who voted for this monstrosity thinking
! Seriously.... 1) you can't eat that 2) way too much brown and green going on 3) the bears look sad 4) it looks like it belongs in a dolls house and she just shoved it on a cupcake 5) it's not even her design she copied it out of a book
So that's my rant... But I want you all to join me in a little anti fondant campaign. I want you to tell all the cupcake judges all the cupcake makers and all the cupcake eaters, no more fondant, no more inedible ugly monster sized toppers, no more over looking gorgeous elegant edible cupcakes because someone didn't spend hours sculpting a dog to sit on top of it. Go out there and say we want cupcakes that are beautiful and edible.
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