How to marbleize Fondant

I LOVE COLOURS! Am sure if you are familiar with my posts, you would have realized that by now (LOL). Colours make life beautiful, meaningful, hopeful and dreamy. That's why playing with colours especially when dealing with fondant can be very fun. You can marbleize your fondant and use it to cover your cupcakes, muffins, and cakes for various occasions.

Marbleizing fondant is a very simple DIY (do-it-yourself) process. All you need to do is just choose your colours and follow my lead on how to marbleize your fondant (LOL).

Below, you will find two easy ways to marbleize fondant. You can marbleize as many colours as you want, ranging from two to five or more colours. Read on...

P.S: I noticed that looking at the picture on the left of my marbleized fondant, if I flip it to landscape instead of portrait, it almost looks like the shape of my country's map but without all the other colours except green and white. (LOL). Ok back to business *winks

Marbleized Fondant: Things you'll need:

Fondant (see Homemade Fondant Recipe)
Fondant Roller and Smoothner
Food colours (all the colours you want to marbleize)
Smooth surface (for rolling fondant)
Shortening e.g Crisco/ Corn starch or Icing sugar to prevent sticking
Cupcakes or Cake to cover it with.

Method 1: Free-hand Style Fondant Marbleizing

In this method, all you have to do is roll out a two balls of white fondant. Colour one of them to any colour you want ( see my post on how to colour your fondant). Mix the two balls into each other slightly until you achieve the marbleized look . Its very easy. Just make sure you do not knead the coloured fondant too much into the plain fondant.

How to marbleize Fondant

Method 2: Twist style Fondant Marbleizing

How I will show you how to make a two -colour effect and how to make several colour effect

1. Two-Colour Effect:

Here take two different balls of fondant and roll them into a sausage-shape. Set them side by side and twist them together intertwining them with each other. Make a Z shape with them together, press together and roll into a sausage shape again. Repeat this process twice. When done, dust your surface properly to avoid sticking, then use your fondant roller to roll it out and smoothen it with a fondant smoothner carefully.

2. Many-Colour Effect:

Here we can take as many colours as we want but when trying to marbleize them, we stack them up like a hot-dog (funny- right). Let me show you;

Now that you have done this, smoothen them together pressing them down lightly with your palm to make them stick to each other. Then twist it three times, make a Z-shape with it, press together at the ends the Z and roll with your palm into a sausage. Repeat this procedure three times and then on the last twist, twist it like five times and it will form lines-of-colour-like pattern just like mine. Then roll out making sure you dust your surface properly to prevent it sticking. As sticking may result in your fondant tearing while lifting. And one of the cons of marbleizing fondant is that you cannot knead it again at this point as kneading it will result to the colours blending into each other more thereby losing your fine line pattern.