Several companies freeze fragile baked goods like pies, cakes with fondant icing and cupcakes with delicate frosting.

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After the main course, guests assemble their own alfajores, traditional Argentine desserts that consist of two biscuits joined by dulce de leche, covered with chocolate fondant and coated with coconut shavings.

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The guests were served an all-white, seven-layer white rum wedding cake that was covered in white fondant and sugar crystals, and adorned with crystal brooches and the couples' monogram on the top layer.

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And in fact I think the reason that we included a chapter like that is because a lot of people do at-home cake decorating, and marzipan and fondant are, like, really important in cake decorating.

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They, too, danced lightly but dangerously together, and the motion led them, as if hypnotized, into a garden, where they shared one of the fiercest and most fondant kisses in the history of movies, or of mouths.

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Originally called Cherry Chase, it was renamed Cherry Chaser before becoming the Cherry Mash, but whatever you called it, the candy features a quarter-pound mound of chopped roasted peanuts blended with chocolate over a smooth cherry fondant center.

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