Help me find cake inspiration

The shop is a bit "old school" so we didn't get an option but the cakes they had in the shop looked great frosted! I am very excited to see it but nervous because my BIL is picking it up! Our site is about 25 miles away so they won't deliever it and it's not a huge cake so he can do it. Pray for him and me that I don't kick his butt if he does something.

Jules,

my comment is my personal opinion and is not based on only having fondant 1 or 2 times. i have had some of the best fondant out there, from Sylia Weinstock cakes to Four Seasons pastry chefs to your general wedding cake with fondant. i do agree that you can make some of the most beautiful cake designs with fondant so i understand why it is used but IMHO all of it tastes thick, yucky, super sweet and kind of fake.

OMG!!! You are SO right!! I tasted fondant icing not too long ago to decide if I wanted that kind of icing and I almost spit it out right then and there!!! It tasted like play-dough!

Oops, I just read about the good fondant so I guess I had bad fondant too!

not necessarily! just because you don't like the taste, doesn't mean you had some "bad" stuff! i don't like it either, it's just a personal preference. i think for me it's a texture thing, but whatever it is, I've never been a huge fan.

I SO wish I was going to be in town to crash your wedding - that sounds so yummy! Where are you getting your cake at again, I forgot.

Hey, I agree with all of you, I am not a fondant fan although I prefer to use it on all my cakes because it looks amazing. I for one make it much thinner than most places do, and I use one of the best tasting fondants around. I have had the kind that tastes like playdoh and its just not edible, but I do use a really good one. So, I was not taking offence to what you said, I was just saying there are many different kinds of fondant, some that are not edible and some that taste much better. I personally pick it off my cake when I eat it, but I also put lots and lots of buttercream underneath it, so its just the thin fondant layer that is left on my plate

I've never had fondant (my Mom makes cakes as a PT job) but she always makes her own icing, which is amazing. Fondant does look pretty -- but I've never itched to try it b/c it also looks like it wouldn't be very good, to me anyway. lol

It did taste pretty good. We got it here: Welcome to Retha & Sandy's Sweet Shop