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How to make Homemade Fondant

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 Using fondant for the covering of your cake gives it a smooth and glossy finish. This is why it is the most used type of icing for wedding cakes. Fondant is especially used because of the way it is workable and can make great shapes and objects that looks more like the real thing. I personally love using fondant and love to make mine myself as opposed to buying from the stores. This is not the only reason, I am a "I CAN-DO IT MYSELF" kind of person and I tell myself that there is really no big deal to it. But I must confess, It has been really challenging as the journey to finding a good recipe has  proved abortive. I have watched a lot of Youtube videos, tried a lot of recipes and have met failure many times. Its either it dries out too quickly or breaks out, at other times I have been lucky. But yesterday as I basked in the euphoria of welcoming my new niece who's christening is coming up soon, I decided I will make a cake to celebrate and I must use Fondant because I intend making baby shoes and a Perambulator. I started to surf the net for other recipes I haven't tried and couldn't find any(LOL). Then it struck me, why not try to make your own recipe! I started to brain-storm. I thought of the main ingredients in fondant and their functions and Eureka! At last I made my very own fondant recipe. Its very simple to make you wouldn't believe it. It was very pliable and it worked along with me as if I were its only hope. LOL
Here is the recipe. Hope you try it out. Its very easy. 


Homemade Fondant Recipe

Ingredients

    • 6 cups Confectioner's Sugar/Icing Sugar
    • 2 tablespoons Glucose
    • 1 teaspoon Glycerine
    • 1 satchet Gelatin
    • 3 tablespoons warm Water

    Things you'll need
    • Double boiler (I used water in a saucepan over a deep pot of boiling water if you don't have one)
    • Spatula 
    • Big Plastic bowl
    • Small Plastic bowl
  •  Procedure: Sift 4 cups of icing sugar in the big plastic bowl, make a well and set aside. In the small plastic bowl, pour the water and sprinkle the gelatin over it. Leave for some time until it dissolves and looks like a paste.
  •  Place it in the double boiler and stir until the gelatin totally dissolves. Do not let it boil. Just enough to melt the gelatin. Bring the bowl out of the double boiler and add the glucose and glycerin. Put back into the double boiler until all the glucose is dissolved. Do not let it boil. Just enough to make the mixture liquid. Remove from heat and allow to cool to lukewarm temperature. This will take about 5mins. 

     Pour the cooled mixture into the well made in the bowl of  sifted icing sugar.

    Mix with a spatula until well mixed. Sprinkle some of the left over icing sugar onto a flat work surface
    Pour the mixture onto the surface and knead with your hands until it comes together and doesn't stick to your fingers.


     Continue kneading until when smooth and stretchy.
    And Voila! There you have it! My very own easy to make fondant recipe. Its very workable and doesn't hurt your shoulders. LOL. Put it in a double wrap and in an airtight container.


    Here is a  picture of what I did with mine. I just added a tablespoon of tylose powder/C.M.C powder to make this beautiful baby shoes I will be using for my niece's baby christening cake.




    I hope you found this post helpful. Share your comments and questions below.

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