fondant
Americannoun
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a thick, creamy sugar paste, the basis of many candies.
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a candy made of this paste.
noun
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a thick flavoured paste of sugar and water, used in sweets and icings
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a sweet made of this mixture
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fondant
1875–80; < French: literally, melting, present participle of fondre to melt, found 3
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The episode will not deprive anyone of the ultrasweet treat, a chocolate shell filled with a white-and-yellow fondant, that is available from January to April.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
The spring-time, choc treats vanished - along with their gooey fondant centres - from a unit in Telford on Saturday.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2023
The original recipe is called “Le gâteau au chocolat fondant de Nathalie” on Page 14, and a photo on Page 15 shows a rather plain, if dense, chocolate cake with a slice taken out.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2023
Marbleizing the fondant or the addition of other pieces of decor can make these techniques feel more at home in the present, too.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2023
“Okay,” Mama said as she packed up the fondant crimper.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
Unlike the firm fondants that I tried before, the Rococo creams have a softer, almost creamy consistency, and are circles, not ovals.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2015
N.B.—Have everything very clean when making fondants; every speck will show; a touch of blue will make the white a better color.
From The Candy Maker's Guide A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling by Fletcher Manufacturing Company
There certainly had been one tin of pate, and it circulated at that end; on the other hand the ladies had all the fondants.
From The Path of a Star by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
His attitude to Augustus was much that of his attitude to his wife's chocolates, fondants, and crystallized violets—"Not absolutely nourishing and beneficial for you, Dearest;—but harmless, and I'll bring you a ton with pleasure".
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher
A white napkin was spread daintily upon a flat-topped rock, and on this were set a large pink and white cake and a box of fondants.
From The Rocks of Valpre by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
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