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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