Friday, August 19, 2011

Delicious Fondant Recipe

Fondant Recipe!!!

Fondant has stumped so many people including myself, we see it on almost every cake and cupcake at weddings and any other occasion. When you go into a custom bakery and you order your cake and you say I want it covered in Fondant the cash register rings as if you just hit the power ball. I remember when my husband and I were cake tasting for the best day of our lives aka our wedding, the price didn't sound so bad until I said we want Fondant and boy did that Change a lot. So much that I opted out of a Fondant cake and went for a satiny buttercream finish. I loved my cake I didn't even miss it one bit neither did my guest. So Once I began my cake artist journey I set out to lean how to make this highly sought after dough icing. Now there's a company that makes millions of pounds of Fondant every year and to be honest it taste worse than the leather on the bottom of my husbands church shoes. I discovered many recipes to make the best Marshmallow Fondant , yep forget all that gelatin and other ingredients you can't pronounce or spell and you definitely don't need a sumo wrestler to knead it. So here's the recipe.

Fondant recipe:
1 10oz bag mini marshmallows

2 TBSP butter
2 TBSP + 1tsp vanilla flavoring
1 lb powder sugar reserve one cup for dusting board
Plastic wrap
Cutting board
Food coloring ( optional)

How to make it:

-Place MM in microwave safe bowl with vanilla flavoring.
-Heat for 1 min until MM are melted and begin to expand.
-Stir MM till smooth
-Of using food coloring add drops at this time and stir till desired color is reached.
- Add in powder sugar and stir
-Mixture may look crumbly and chunky ( this is good)

- continue to stir until it is mixed as well ad possible.

-Spread tensing cup of sugar on board, and pour mixture on to surface

-Grease hands with butter and begin kneading, if you need a little extra add it, but not too much or it will be crumbly to roll out.

-keep kneading until you have a nice smooth ball of Fondant not too dry or sticky (resembles play doh).

-Wrap in plastic and let sit for one hour in fridge

- when ready to use knead till warm soft and pliable. Then roll out and use as necessary.

Enjoy your Fondant!!

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