Chocolate fondant needs to be tinted with oil-based candy colors and flavored with oil-based flavorings, which can be a little more difficult to find. Homemade fondant is made by combining melted marshmallows with confectioners sugar, water and shortening.
Some decorators add some store-bought fondant to their MMF recipes to add elasticity and shelf life. Homemade fondant has a shorter shelf life than the store-bought variety. It can take a few tries to get the fondant to the perfect consistency. Outcomes can vary depending on the brand of marshmallows used and the humidity where you live.
Poured fondant is a classic glaze used to coat cakes and candies with a sleek, glossy, crunchy, sugary shell. Some recipes call for breaking out the candy thermometer, others are a simple mix of just a few ingredients. Poured fondant is the traditional finish for petit fours and also makes for a silky smooth candy filling. There are a few types of poured fondant, all detailed below.
Image via Erin Bakes. It can be tinted with water-based food colorings and flavored with the addition of oils or extracts.
Cooked fondant recipes can be made in advance and re-warmed to a pourable consistency when needed. Unused fondant can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to three days. Using a candy thermometer and working with hot sugar can take time to master and may be intimidating to some.
This icing is typically a combination of powdered sugar, corn syrup, water and a flavoring, whipped together with a stand or hand-mixer. It sometimes contains white chocolate or candy coating for additional flavor and color.
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Wedding Cakes For You! Which fondant brand is best? Dec 09, Rating Eating Fondant by: Anonymous This was the very first time we had the bakery make my son a fondant cake. We've heard it was very sweet but he has never had a fondant cake. The cake was beautiful. I had some people over and my girlfriend told me that before cutting the cake we had to peel the fondant off because you don't eat it. She said no one eats the fondant.
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All rights reserved. HP We value and respect your email privacy. That took a lot of work and generated fascinating results. Thank you. Googling, I see that some are using marshmallow creme and powdered sugar to make fondant, too. There's a part of me that wants to say that that would not be "scratch", but it's something to think about. I wonder if a really soft fondant could be draped over a classically shaped Bundt cake? Questions, questions, I always have more of them.
Thanks again for a fascinating post. HTom, You could absolutely do the bundt cake with fondant This was really fun- having never actually tasted fondant apparently weddings I go to peel it all off I was excited to try them all at once. I'll put this link in my post that I mentioned the tasting :. Very nice article. I certainly love this site. Stick with it!
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