Fondant icing

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Permalink Reply by suziq auzzi on April 20, 2012 at 3:19am

soft silky finish as compared to what product in particular?

 

Rolled fondant or sugarpaste is not soft. The outer surface dries to form a "crust" while underneath it remains firm. Most modern recipes for homemade sugarpaste contains gelatine [MMF contains marshmallow which is made of gelatine].

Most modern commercial sugarpaste does not contain gelatine eg Wilton, Satin Ice, pettinice, fondx, fondarific, Regalice, Bakels, Orchard, Choco-Pan, etc contain emulsifiers, gums, hardeners, thickeners etc to make them set.

The original sugarpaste contains no gelatine. It is basically a "royal icing" dough.

 

Something for you to experiment with:

Sugar Paste

1 egg white       

1 lb powdered or confectioners or icing sugar[400g to 500g]

2 oz glucose syrup or corn syrup slightly warmed

Sieve sugar into a bowl. Add egg and glucose. Knead. Add colour and flavour.

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Anne-Marie Balding on April 20, 2012 at 4:57am

Mine went dry and crumbled which is not good haha!! and when u buy fondant icing its soft and smooth and doesnt crumble like mine did :-(

My recipie says to boil the water, lemon juice, some sugar and glucose to a syrup and then beat in the rest of the sugar,,,, two problems with this is

1) the mixture is extremely hot to handle,,, i just boiled sugar! but the recipie does not say to let it cool.

2) it never takes all the sugar stated in the recipie.

 

I will give that recipie ago, however im in the process of making a cake for lady who is due  a baby in october so raw egg in icing might not be idea mix for her so would be nice also if i could find an all round suitable recipie.  One the same as you can buy from shops.

 

I gave a gelatine recipie a try and again had the same problem where it would not absorb all the sugar and then it became so difficult to roll out and had the consistancy of a rubber band!!

To achieve this goal and be able to make my own icing suitable for everyone would be great but its proving to be a very time consuming task but one i am never going to give up on.

 thank you for your reply and i will give it ago at the weekend!!

 

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