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Re: leftover fondant

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Posted by Natalie on April 01, 2008 at 20:14:08:

In Reply to: Re: leftover fondant posted by anna n on April 01, 2008 at 19:38:14:

Thanks for the tip about making new colors from old fondant. I need to remember that. I get too caught up in my "custom colors" that I forget I can reuse fondant if it hasn't hardened.

: I only use fondant for accents on cakes--not for covering the whole cake, but when I have leftover colors, I wrap them in plastic wrap and then put them in ziploc bags and freeze them. You can sometimes make new colors from the old ones. For instanct, I had a little pink and added orange to it to make a peach color that I needed for another cake. You can always make black from any color. It's too expensive to just discard it, so I use it every way that I can.

: That is a good idea for all white cakes. My problem is that I tend to do special occasion cakes in Fondant and then I have a lot of leftover colored fondant, which has more limited use.

: I have one price for buttercream covered cakes and one for fondant. With the leftovers I make small medium and large pearls and store them away until needed for another cake.

: When I charge for a fondant cake, I just include the fondant that I use. But usually I have so much leftover because of the extra amount needed to allow for fully covering the cake. Sometimes I can use it for another cake or for my kids' cakes, but not most of the time and I wind up discarding it. Do most of you charge for just the amount that you use or include all of it that you make.

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: Thanks for the tip about making new colors from old fondant. I need to remember that. I get too caught up in my "custom colors" that I forget I can reuse fondant if it hasn't hardened.

: I only use fondant for accents on cakes--not for covering the whole cake, but when I have leftover colors, I wrap them in plastic wrap and then put them in ziploc bags and freeze them. You can sometimes make new colors from the old ones. For instanct, I had a little pink and added orange to it to make a peach color that I needed for another cake. You can always make black from any color. It's too expensive to just discard it, so I use it every way that I can.

: That is a good idea for all white cakes. My problem is that I tend to do special occasion cakes in Fondant and then I have a lot of leftover colored fondant, which has more limited use.

: I have one price for buttercream covered cakes and one for fondant. With the leftovers I make small medium and large pearls and store them away until needed for another cake.

: When I charge for a fondant cake, I just include the fondant that I use. But usually I have so much leftover because of the extra amount needed to allow for fully covering the cake. Sometimes I can use it for another cake or for my kids' cakes, but not most of the time and I wind up discarding it. Do most of you charge for just the amount that you use or include all of it that you make.

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