What if i told you that it was possible to come across a fondant that was super easy for cake
decorating, tasted delicious compared to you know the not so delicious fondants that you
find at the supermarket and was super easy to make, so only needed three ingredients
well stay tuned because in today's video i'm going to be showing you guys how to make super
delicious and easy marshmallow fondant.
Hey guys and welcome back to my channel Cakes by MK. So yes i'm going to be showing you guys how to make some easy marshmallow
fondant today and yes you actually do use marshmallows to make this fondant which is why
it tastes great compared to you know normal fondant that is pretty you know not so nice from
the supermarkets and what i love the most about this fondant is that it's really easy to use so
it's nice and soft when you're kind of knitting it and you know rolling it out to cover your cake
but it sets nice and firmly as well so it's super reliable so yeah let's get right into the recipe
So to make this super easy marshmallow fondant recipe all you're going to need is some icing
sugar, some white marshmallows and some water and that is pretty much it and i will have the
full quantities to all these ingredients in the description box below and the quantity that i'm
making today is going to give you just over 1 kg of fondant. Now what i'm going to do first is i'm
going to melt my marshmallows in the microwave and all i'm going to do is i'm just going to pop it
in the microwave for 30 second bursts at a time giving it a mix with my spatula in between each
burst until it's completely melted and you'll know that it's melted when there's no lumps in it and
it also kind of puffs up a little bit as well and i'll show you what that looks like once i'm done
so i've just taken my marshmallows out of the microwave it was in there for a minute 30 all
together and as you can see it's kind of puffed up up the top there and as i mix it, just be really
careful also because marshmallows are super sticky when melted, but as i'm mixing it you can see that
it's nice and kind of smooth in there, there are a few little lumps but my mixture is quite hot so
those should just kind of melt away as i give my marshmallows a little mix
so i've given my marshmallow a little mix and as you can see now it's nice
and smooth so there's no kind of you know lumps in it so i'm going to pop it aside
for now while we move on to the next step which is sifting our icing sugar
now you do want to make sure that you sift your icing sugar because this is going to remove
any lumps so that our final fondant is nice and smooth and doesn't have any lumps in it
now once your icing sugar is nicely sifted the next step is to add our melted marshmallows and
water to our bowl with our icing sugar in it and then just give that a little mix with our spatula
i absolutely love marshmallows and these marshmallows smell so good right now
and now i'm just going to start folding the icing sugar into my marshmallows
and i'm kind of doing this in a circular motion so that my marshmallows don't kind of stick to
the sides of the bowl and i'm getting as much of it into my icing sugar as possible
now once your marshmallows are mostly covered with the icing sugar then the next step is to
simply get our hands and start kneading this mixture until we form kind of like a dough
now to stop the mixture from sticking all over my hands i'm just using a little bit of
shortening to rub on my fingers and then i'm going to go ahead and turn this into a dough
now when you're first mixing this it is going to seem quite crumbly but just keep kneading
and i promise you it will come together. Okay now once you've got one whole piece like that
then what you want to do next is just pop your bowl aside, just clean up the little
area in front of you and then you basically just want to keep kneading your fondant now until we
reach the right consistency and i'll show you what that looks like when we get to that point
now a quick tip for you guys when kneading fondant is to actually use the palm of your
hands to kind of knead into the fondant as opposed to your fingers and this is going
to help it come together more quickly and you're not going to get as tired doing it
okay so i think my fondant is all ready now so you know your fondant is done when you've got
it you know in one nice shape like that so it's not kind of you know crumbly and falling apart
and another key thing is that you know you can kind of move it around in like kind of
different ways without it breaking so it's got that elasticity to it which we need for
a fondant, and this is what it looks like when i break my fondant away so it kind of has a bit
of stretch to it and then it just kind of comes off. Now one thing to keep in mind is that fondant
is sensitive to the weather so if you're staying in a humid climate then you might find that even
with the quantities that i've given below for this recipe you might find that your fondant is still
a little bit sticky and it's not kind of you know at the right consistency so all you need to do is
add a bit more icing sugar and just keep doing that until you reach this kind of nice doughy
consistency that you need for your fondant and you know alternatively if you stay in a cold climate
and you find that the quantities below are you know giving you more of like a dry and
tough fondant then what you can do is just add a little bit more water so i'd only add maybe like
half a tablespoon at a time and then just keep kneading it until you get to the right consistency
so you do kind of you know have to use a bit of your intuition when making um fondant as well
but that's basically it. So what i'm going to do next is i'm going to show you guys how you
would store this fondant, how you would color it and i'm going to do a really quick demonstration
showing you guys how i cover a styrofoam cake with this fondant as well because i love this
fondant recipe so much that i want to show you just how amazing it is to cover your cakes
now to store this fondant it's super easy all you need to do is grab some cling wrap
just wrap it around your fondant just make sure that it's really well covered
so i like to just do maybe like two or three rounds
and then simply store it in an airtight container
so just like that and this will basically go into the fridge if you're not using it straight away
and it'll last in the fridge for quite a while so you know maybe up to about two months or so
and when you're going to use it just make sure that you pull it out of the fridge maybe you
know the day before or a couple of hours before you're going to use it to allow it to come to
room temperature and then you'll just need to re-knead it a little bit, just make sure you don't
over knead your fondant because you can dry it out that way, but yeah basically just re-knead it
again until you've got the right consistency and then your fondant is good to go. Now when
it comes to coloring your fondant that is super easy as well. This fondant holds color really well
as well which is super great. So what you want to do is just grab a little bit of your fondant
and flatten it out. Now you can use gloves to prevent the color from getting onto your hands
or another option is just to rub a little bit of shortening on your hands as well and this just
kind of acts as a barrier to prevent the coloring from staining your hands and then all you want to
do is just get a tiny tiny bit of gel color so i'm just going to maybe even just dab it because
i've only got a little bit of fondant here, and then you simply want to fold the fondant inwards
so that it's kind of covering the gel color and then basically just kind of work it in after that
and about after a minute i'm left with this beautiful purple fondant and it's a beautiful
color too and i literally only used like a tiny bit of this purple color i didn't even
use a drop i just used like a tiny dab so if you did use even a drop you'd get even a darker
you know color to your fondant so yeah that's basically how you color fondant, super easy and
you'd just store this in exactly the same way as i stored this big version if you're not using it
straight away, just wrap it in some glad wrap, pop it into an airtight container and into the fridge
now the next thing that i'm going to show you guys is i'm going to quickly show you how i would cover
a styrofoam cake with this fondant. I'm just going to do this super quick so i'm not going
to go into too much detail but do let me know in the comment section below if you do want
any more in-depth tutorial on how to cover a cake using fondant. So i'm just going to start
off by putting a little bit of icing sugar down to prevent my fondant from sticking to my table
and now i'm just going to put a little bit more shortening on my fingers to
prevent my fondant from sticking to me. Now i do have quite a bit of fondant over here
i don't think i'm going to need all of it so i'm just going to break some of it off
and just make sure that your fondant is always covered when you're not working with it otherwise
it's going to dry out and it's going to be a bit harder to kind of knead back together. Now because
my fondant has been sitting for a little while i'm just going to re-knead it a little bit.
what I really love about this fondant too compared to store-bought fondant is that it's so much easier
to knead because of the soft marshmallows in it so yeah definitely less of kind of a workout i would
say. And now all i'm going to do is i'm just going to use my large rolling pin to roll out my fondant
and as i'm rolling it you can see just how beautifully smooth this fondant is
now i'm just going to roll the fondant onto my fondant roller
now before i place the fondant onto my styrofoam cake i'm just going to quickly rub it with some
of my shortening which i've got which is going to help my fondant stick to my styrofoam cake
so now that it's nicely covered with that shortening i'm just going to go ahead and put my
fondant over my cake
and what i absolutely love about this fondant is that i've just put it
on but the sides are still kind of holding without me having to kind of quickly try and grab them
before they kind of break off because that is kind of a sore point when you know dealing with
fondant cakes and now i'm just going to quickly go around and secure that top edge because i mean
you know even though it didn't break i don't want to show off and it ends up breaking so
you know you still want to make sure that you know you're kind of doing the right things
and now i'm just using my hands to start working that fondant down to cover my cake
and now i'm just using my exacto blade to cut off the excess on the bottom
now your leftover fondant you can just kind of knead it back together
into a ball and then just wrap it in glad wrap and put it in your airtight container
and now i'm just going around and smoothing out the cake with my cake scraper
and now i'm just working on some sharp edges
okay so i've got me some nice sharp edges now so i'm just going to do
one last little smooth out of it
and that is it that is my styrofoam cake covered beautifully in marshmallow fondant it didn't
take me long at all to do, super easy to work with. I am not actually that great at fondant
guys i will admit it, but with this marshmallow fondant it makes me feel like a bit of a pro
so i hope it makes you guys feel like that as well. Now one last thing is you can also turn
this fondant into a modeling clay so let's say you're making you know figurines or something
like that for a cake where you need it to set quite firmly, all you need to do is just add
some cmc or tylose powder into your fondant, just knead that in and then you're good to
go and i will add in the description box below the quantity of cmc or tylose powder that you
need to add into this fondant to turn it into a modeling clay and that is basically it so
i hope you guys enjoyed this video on how to make this super easy and delicious marshmallow
fondant. Please like and subscribe for more videos like this and thanks again for watching Cakes by MK