Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet creamy sugar paste used in candies and icings.
- noun A candy containing this paste.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, stooping, as for prey: said of an eagle, a falcon, etc.
- noun A thick, smooth, creamy paste of sugar, used as a basis of French cream candies.
- noun The base or flux, in enamel, which is colored throughout by metallic oxids while in a state of fusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of soft candy, made of a thick creamy sugar paste by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, and usually molded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A flavored sugar preparation, used for icing cakes.
- noun Dark chocolate.
- noun A
croquette .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name fondant comes from the French fondre, meaning “to melt,” and fondant is the base for what are called candy “creams,” the flavored, moist, melt-in-the-mouth interiors of filled chocolates and other candies.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The name fondant comes from the French fondre, meaning “to melt,” and fondant is the base for what are called candy “creams,” the flavored, moist, melt-in-the-mouth interiors of filled chocolates and other candies.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The fondant is (obviously) where I began to struggle.
Keeping Up with the Times Sarah 2009
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The fondant is (obviously) where I began to struggle.
Archive 2009-04-01 Sarah 2009
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In most of these cake show challenges, each cake is literally draped in fondant, which brings nothing to the flavor of the cake, and exists solely as a sculpting agent.
'Top Chef: Just Desserts': Who wants to watch another show about cake? | EW.com 2009
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The "tiers" (the base and the middle) are foam board wrapped in fondant, and were planned to be that way from the get-go to support the weight of the cake.
Boing Boing 2009
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Austin includes directions for using a specific kind of fondant, which is something most home bakers don't mess with, and food-safe markers.
Holiday Cookies preview: Carla's and Maggie's Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
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Its time for the fondant, which is mixed with green food paste and kneaded to achieve a uniform color before its rolled flat.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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It's time for the fondant, which is mixed with green food paste and kneaded to achieve a uniform color before its rolled flat.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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Real fondant, which is basically 100% sugar, is also more expensive than buttercream, and some places will use a fake fondant that is pretty gross.
Love is in the Air... Jen 2009
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Here syrup is heated in pair of steel kettles, set up high off the floor, then quickly cooled and stirred to form the right crystals for fondant (a thick, toffee-like substance) before it’s heated again to fill eight cavities at a time on mold sheets,160 molds per tray.
Three shifts at the Scrabble factory: The factory floor Ben Heintz 2021
treeseed commented on the word fondant
Used as a frosting/icing for cakes
February 17, 2008