Marshmallow Fondant (aka MMF)
A type of homemade fondant that is popular in America, due to many of their fondant’s tasting not very nice… apparently. It has found it’s way to our shores with some decorators who don’t like the taste of our fondant and who have attempted to make a better tasting medium that is still easy to use, tasting very much like it’s marshmallow ingredient, you can flavour it or use coloured marshmallow’s and additional colouring to colour it during the making process, to reduce kneading, now that’s got to be a bonus right?
Here’s a recipe submitted some time ago by one of our Cake friends Mel, underneath I include the link to Cake Journal’s recipe/tutorial as an alternative, and a You Tube video for another play by play in making this medium.
Marshmallow Fondant
Ingredients
500g marshmallows (all white)
2tbsp water
8 cups (1kg) icing sugar
Instructions
In a bowl put marshmallows and water, and microwave for 30 sec. Stir. Repeat until marshmallow is completely melted. (Be AWARE, hot marshmallows are HOT!)
Begin stirring in icing sugar gradually. Once it thickens right up turn it out onto a surface dusted with icing sugar and gradually knead in the remaining icing sugar (you might not need all the icing sugar, just judge for when it becomes a lovely dough and is no longer too sticky).
You may need to wear kitchen gloves for this as it is VERY sticky to begin with.
Additional Information/Comments
Voila! if you want to add colour it is easiest to add it before adding icing sugar, but if you need to make various colours out of it, try microwaving the piece you want to colour for around 10 sec until it softens it up so that it is easy to knead in the colour.
Try Cake Journal for her How to Make Marshmallow Fondant Tutorial.
Try You Tube for this Video MMF Instructional Video.
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I live in the states and this is the fondant my friend and I use for our cakes. When I got married and my mom made my cake, she bought the Wilton pre-made fondant and it tasted like cardboard and icing sugar. The marshmallow is very sweet, but it works up beautifully and it tastes good.
A little tip though that I saw a few mentions online and from my personal experience, make sure you have tons of Crisco (shortening) around. Grease everything well, from the mixer, your hands, counters, spoons, bowls, pans, anything that will come in contact with the melted marshmallow. Also you don’t have to use the microwave. You can melt the marshmallows in a pan on the stove top. Grease the pan very well, add the marshmallows and water and stir over a medium heat. Once everything is melted add it to 3/4 of the icing sugar and mix. Add more sugar until it isn’t sticky and your done. We use a kitchen aide mixer and it does all the work for you!!
Anyway I love it and a batch of fondant comes out to about 5$, can’t beat it!!
I have learned nearly everything I know about cake decorating from the internet as I live in country WA. I cannot get premaide fondant locally, but I can get marshmallows
I use MMF all the time to decorate, including covering cakes, decorating cupcakes, decorating cookies, adding cmc for gumpaste for modelling etc. Everyone loves MMF, and nobody picks it off and leaves it. Even people who normally don’t like plastic icing are surprised they like the taste of mmf. It is also much cheaper to make than buying premade. You should give it a try at least once. We don’t have Crisco shortening, but any vegetable shortening works fine.
Hello – another newbie question – is it possible to get the fondant to a consistency which can be piped onto cupcakes??? Marshmellow icing swirls on cupcakes sounds totally delicious!!!