fondants

Soft sugar candies

Fondants are soft, creamy confections made from sugar syrup.

The term covers two main forms: a pourable icing used to coat pastries and petits fours, and a pliable, dough-like paste rolled out to cover cakes or molded into decorative shapes.

She draped the wedding cake in smooth white fondant.

The texture is distinctly smooth and yielding, unlike harder sugar confections.

confection

ganache

Chocolate-cream confection blend

trufflePrized subterranean edible
chocolateSweet from cacao seeds
fillingMaterial placed within

centers · praline · bonbon · cream · sugar · butter · cocoa · coating · dipping · tempering

icing

rolled

Rotated or turned over

coveringLayer that shields or hides
cakeFrosted baked dessert
smoothWithout roughness or difficulty

decorating · pliable · wedding cake · modeling · draping · sculpting · gum paste · edible · white · tinted

technique

melting

Solid-to-liquid transition

pouringFlowing in volume
crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
supersaturationExceeding dissolution equilibrium limits

glucose · candy thermometer · cooling · beating · kneading · smoothness · consistency · temperature · stirring · seeding

fondants

ganache

rolled

melting

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