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I hate Hate HATE, let me be clear, HATEEE this fondant with a burning passion. I've been making fondant covered cakes for two years now and am pretty well rehearsed with the basic covering a cake and smoothing. I've used many other types of fondant, including buttercream fondantd, wilton, lmf and mmf, and none of them are as nightmarish as this brand. First of all, the fondant is super hard and compact in this bucket and takes 30 minutes just to claw your way into it to dig out enough to knead and roll. Secondly, I've always mixed my own colors using gel colors and have never had issues, but I spent an hour trying to make this fondant yellow, orange, and blue for a Nerf cake I was making. I had some red fondant so I thought I could mix some yellow then put the two together to make orange. Instead, it made a weird coral color. I also waisted a ton of time trying to make a royal blue to cover a second cake and ended up justjust chunking it in the trash. Thirdly, I took the corally color and continued adding yellow until I got a useable (but not preferable) shade of orange and resumed with rolling it out to cover an 8 inch cake. (I was determined to make this work because I spent $80 on freaking fondant.) This normally takes me about 10 minutes to do with other fondants, but every single time I rolled the fondant over to drape, it would stretch and tear and get elephant skin. I used the black satin ice to cover a cake board and even THAT got elephant skin! I've never had a fondant dry out so quickly! I was basically only able to roll it to 6 inches before it would start cracking, so forget covering a cake board, let alone an actual cake.. but I digress..So I roll it out as best I can and cover the cake with the hopes of spackling over the cracks and tears, (which is basically the entire cake). But this fondant would NOT smooth! It immediately started buckling and getting folds, it didn't matter how much I separated them and smoothed downward, it just had these huge ugly folds and cracks and rips and dry spots. Pissed because I had just spent literally four hours trying to do something that should only take 20 minutes, I drove to the store and bought some precolored wilton and covered BOTH cakes, including smoothing and sharpening edges, in 15 minutes easy breezy. I spent another entire day trying to cover a cake dummy with plain white satin ice today for a wedding, with about the same amount of luck, and will be going to the store tomorrow to buy some trusty wilton, because this brand is costing me my sanity and I have an 11 month old who requires his mother's attention! To summarize: hard to get out, hard to work with, dries out quickly, colors poorly, rips and stretches and cracks when lifting to cover cake, doesn't smooth out causing folds, and causes terrible elephant skin.