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Ready-To-Roll Icing
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Ready-to-roll icing is the grocery name for a boxed rolled fondant: sugar paste already kneaded, often vanilla-scented, meant to be opened, rolled, and draped the same afternoon. It is thicker and sweeter than a professional rolled fondant, and it is how most home celebration cakes get a smooth coat. It dries out at the cut face of the pack. Knead in a drop of shortening if it cracks, not a splash of water that turns it gluey. It will not taste like ganache. Use it when convenience matters more than a pâtissier's poured gloss.
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UK grocers launched ready-to-roll icing so home bakers could skip making sugar paste.
Coloured ready-to-roll packs turned kids' cakes into cartoon sheets.
Supermarket own-brand RTR icing became the default British birthday-cake skin.
Better-tasting and chocolate ready-to-roll lines answered years of "it looks nice, it tastes of paste."