Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt I am your host Matt
Taylor today I'm going to show you how to make fondant.
For those of you who live in different countries where
fondant might be really expensive this might be a good alternative for you.
Also some people think this homemade fondant
is better than the real thing , pretty cool.
We're gonna use just a few ingredients to make this fondant, if I
can do it you can do it.
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To begin we're gonna take a large microwave-safe Bowl and we're
going to take our marshmallow, I'm using mini marshmallows, and this is 1 pound 16
ounces or 453 grams these are really cheap here in the States this whole
package cost like a dollar 25 pretty cheap.
Alright and now we're gonna take some water I have a quarter cup of water
here but we only want about half of it to start, so about two tablespoons.
And now we're gonna just put this in the
microwave on HIGH for 30 seconds and then we're gonna take a spoon and we're
gonna stir and then high for 30 seconds stir high stir until it is nice and
creamy and melted, on to that step.
Okay until we have it nice and all melted
like this, it's all nice and soft and everything's melted there's no chunks or
anything.
Now what we are going to do is we are gonna take our powdered sugar, I
have about 8 cups of powdered sugar here that I sifted ahead of time and we are
gonna get almost all of it in there and now we want to just start stirring
it in and it's gonna get messy on you.
Well you need to work fairly fast so the marshmallows don't seize up on you.
And it is going to come together like a dough okay gonna come together
like a dough.
Add some more power sugar and when it gets to that about that point
about dough consistency it's still gonna be a little sticky what we're gonna do
is take some of our shortening.
I have about a third of a cup of shortening here but you're not going to
may not use that much may need a little bit more.
And I'm just going to put some shortening here on my surface.
I'm just using a silicone mat I don't want to put
it directly on my table if you have like a counter or something do that.
And then we're gonna put some on our hands make sure your hands are clean and
the shortening is going to help keep it from sticking to your hands.
Okay and it's gonna be all super soft right
now and we're gonna just knead it like we would need dough and still pretty
soft so what we want to do and it's going to firm up as we're needing is we
want to take in some more of our powdered sugar.
This is a great time to wear a an apron.
Some more powdered sugar and yes this is very very messy job.
Talking about colors if you're going to use food coloring you want to use a gel,
food coloring gel like these gels and if you just want one color then you can put
that color in right when you're stirring and melting the marshmallows.
But if you want to do separate colors you're
gonna have to fold those in after the fact.
And whenever you need a little bit more shortening just grab some more
shortening.
Add more powdered sugar as needed.
All right it's starting to get there so it's gonna get more firm on you
and it's gonna start to feel like traditional fondant and you can get it
you can leave it softer or harder but typically when you pull it if it
stretches like that too easy it's a little bit too soft still so just keep
adding more powdered sugar and kneading it in there and getting it all over
yourself, haha.
It's always messy but it's kind of fun too it's like one of the messiest
times that your kitchen is gonna be with powdered sugar everywhere
but it's a lot of fun and it's a lot cheaper than store-bought fondant and
tastes a lot better.
Test it again that's getting really close see how it just kind
of broke apart like that that's just about there actually and we have maybe a
fourth of a cup of our powdered sugar left, that's great.
Now if we want to color this like for example I want to color this
bit right there I'm going to take some gel food gel just use food gel let's see
what color maybe I'll do red and just a couple drops.
Put some more shortening on your fingers this will help keep the
color from sticking to your hands or just put gloves on.
And we're just gonna fold in that color to the fondant, just knead
it in.
And it is going to start to show through.
Alright so there we have it.
I got some white and some pink, I would have
done a darker red but I ran out of red, that's quite alright.
Now what we want to do we need to let, this chill in the refrigerator for about
twelve hours before we use it and in order to store it we want to take some
some of our shortening get it all over our hands and we want to go all over the
fondant with the shortening and this is gonna help it to not dry out, okay.
And once you've got the fondant all nice and greased up we can wrap it in plastic
wrap.
All right now that I have everything cleaned up we are gonna take
some of this plastic wrap and we are going to cover up this fondant.
Again make sure to cover it with your
shortening, you don't want any air to get into this that's going to help it store.
Great do this other one.
There we go our our fondant is ready to go.
We'll put it in the fridge for about 12 hours to 24
hours and then when you want to use it just take it out of the fridge let it
come to room temperature and just knead it in your hands until it's ready to be
worked with simple as that.
And there we have it homemade fondant really easy to
do.
So whether it's too expensive where you live or you don't like the taste of
traditional fondant or maybe you just want a fun messy activity to do in the
kitchen make some homemade fondant.
Really easy to do if I can do it you can do it.
I'm Matt Taylor this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt
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