Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, fondant. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fondant is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Fondant is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Fondant icing, also commonly referred to simply as fondant (/ˈfɒndənt/, from the French: [fɔ̃dɑ̃] listen ), is an icing used to decorate or sculpt cakes and pastries. It's frustrating to run out of fondant when you're in the middle of decorating a cake. Never run out again once you learn how to make your own fondant!
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fondant using 6 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fondant:
- Make ready 60 ml water
- Prepare 1 tbspn gelatin
- Prepare 2 tbspn glucose syrup
- Get 1 tspn pure glycerine
- Make ready 1 pkt icing sugar
- Make ready 1/4 tspn pepper mint/vanilla extract(optional)
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Instructions to make Fondant:
- Put cold water in a sufuria
- Add gelatin
- Stir well
- Let it settle for 20mins as it thickens
- Then put it on heat but inside another pan with water till it melts (don't heat directly)
- Add the glucose syrup
- Then the glycerine and pepper mint /vanilla extract while still on heat(optional)
- Sieve the icing sugar in a bowl
- Add the above melted syrup to the icing sugar
- Then mix well to the right consistency
- Knead well to acquire a perfect finish
- Knead thoroughly to the right consistency.Once it becomes less sticky to the hands it's ready
- You can also check if it's ready when you fold it and stretch a little bit…it should not break
- Oil it then wrap in a cling film. Oiling prevents hardening (I prefer solid cooking fat)
- Take a piece then roll to a big shape, use corn flour to roll it
- Right enough to cover your cake,before covering it with the fondant use a little bit of royal icing to cover the crumbs it also enhances the cakes firmness
- Then cover your cake basing on its shape,then trim the unwanted pieces
- Shape perfectly as you smoothen it
- Apply the same to the rest of the cakes
- Till you acquire a perfect finish
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