Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking Marshmallow Fondant
Hi Bold Bakers! I was very fortunate to be part of a bridal shower thrown by Kin Community
for fellow YouTuber Alex Garza. Today I'm going to show you how to make Marshmallow
Fondant and decorate a cake with it just like the one I made for Alex. Also, stay tuned
until the very end so you can see the bridal shower footage and all of the other great
channels that collaborated. So let's get baking!
I know like working with fondant and cake decorating can seem like a daunting task but
I'm hoping that after this video you get more confidence and you'll be able to do it yourself from scratch.
To start out making your fondant, you'll need to melt your marshmallows with a little bit
of water until they're nice and soft and liquid. You can do it in a microwave or over a bain-marie.
This doesn't take long. They literally take seconds to melt. When your marshmallow is
melted, it should look a little bit like this. A big white, marshmallow lava mess.
From here we're going to mix this with our icing sugar. Now you can do this process by hand.
You'll just need a lot of elbow grease and it is a little bit messy. So I'm going to
put mine on my kitchen mixer and mix it that way.
And then into your icing sugar goes your sticky marshmallow. Now that your marshmallow is in there,
turn your machine on low and try to combine the two ingredients together. It does take
a little bit of time and you'll have to scrape down the bowl a little bit. You just want
to mix it on the machine until the icing forms a ball. You're not actually going to be kneading
it on the machine. If you need to add a little bit more of your reserve sugar, go ahead and do that.
Once our fondant has come together, I'm going to turn it out onto a well-oiled surface and
I'm going to knead it until it's nice and smooth.
Now you're probably wondering, how am I going to get this sticky mess out of this bowl.
And it's very simple, we're going to oil our spatula, oil our hands and get stuck in there
and pull it all out. Stick with it and you'll be able to get all of your marshmallow out
of your bowl. But then you have to figure out how to get it off of your hands.
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So you know that icing sugar that you kept from earlier, we're actually going to knead
that now into the fondant. And we're going to keep on working it until we have a nice
smooth icing at the end. It will take around 5-7 minutes of kneading time. You'll notice
when you keep on kneading that your fondant gets dryer and it gets smoother. So once you've
incorporated all of your sugar, and your fondant doesn't feel wet, then you're done.
Once you've kneaded your fondant you can actually start to add any color you like to it. So
I'm going to keep a little bit aside and add some pink color to it. And you want to keep
kneading until all of the fondant is the same color. We're going to set this guy aside and
I'm going to show you what we're going to use it for later.
When storing your fondant, you want to cover it with a little bit of flavorless oil so
it stops it from drying out. Now we're going to move on to get our cakes ready.
For my cake, I'm using my master recipe for yellow cake. But you can use carrot cake,
sponge, chocolate, whatever your heart desires. Before we lay our fondant on our cake, we're
going to frost it with buttercream inside and out. If your cake is uneven on top,
give it a little bit of a slice and make it nice and level. What I like to do is flip
it over so you get the bottom as the top. It's nice to have a frosting layer between
your fondant to keep your cake nice and moist. We're going to pop this cake in the fridge
and let the crumb layer set. Our next step is to roll out the fondant.
To roll out your fondant, you want to generously dust your surface with icing sugar. This will
prevent it from sticking. It's always handy if you roll your rolling pin in a little bit
of sugar as well. Roll it out wide enough to totally cover your cake. Try to get an
even thickness. Move your cake to a place where you have space to decorate it. And then simply
lay on your homemade marshmallow fondant. And just unfold the little sheet that we did
earlier. Smooth the fondant out with your hands and slowly work your way down the sides
of the cake. Make sure to smooth out any creases that form. Use a knife to cut away the excess fondant
but leave around 1/2 an inch extra because you'll need that later.
Once you lay on your fondant and smooth down the sides, you might think it's not as smooth
as you want it to be and that's where this guy comes in: it's a fondant smoother. Now
I've had this for around 10 years and I've never used it. But until recently when I've
started working with fondant, I realized what it was and it works amazingly. If you don't
have one of these, you can use a spatula or something with a hard edge. All we're going
to do is buff around the cake and get out any lumps and bumps and try to get it as smooth
as we can. To finish the bottom of your cake nice and smooth, you can buff it with your
fondant polisher or you can tuck it in underneath the cake. I'm going to pop this cake layer in the
fridge and get started on my other layer. I'm only doing two but you can do as many
as you like. And then just like the other layer, go down the sides and smooth out any
wrinkles and just get out any air. And keep working until you get to the bottom.
I actually think it's easier to make your own fondant than it is to buy because when
you go to the store and try to buy it, they sell it in such small packs that would never
cover a cake of this size. So in my opinion, it's much easier to make it and much more rewarding.
And then you can go along afterwards and smooth it out.
So remember that pink fondant that we died earlier, we're going to roll that out along
with the leftover white fondant and we're going to cut out little beautiful hearts and
lay them all around the cake. This makes it a perfect cake for weddings, bridal showers
or any special occasion. Just use a little bit of royal icing to stick on your hearts.
And then add on your next layer and continue putting on your hearts. You can add splashes of color
any way you want. I hope you fear fondant no more and make your own beautiful creations.
Make sure you check out the bridal shower video and see how much fun we had. Thank you
so much for subscribing to my channel and I'll see you back here again next Thursday
for more Bigger Bolder Baking.