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Thursday, February 2, 2012

How To Make Figures Using Fondant

By Natalie Richardson


Dry fondant composes of rolled dough and sugar paste that is used to decorate the cakes and make them eye catching. It gives a cake a smooth finish through molding it into a fantastic product. In this context, it requires food colors to make the cake has an eye catching and interesting mixture of colors on its top. Therefore, one should observe the following steps in making a two layer eight inch cake that has a dry mixture.

The cook should start by sprinkling cornstarch on top of the work surface to avoid sticky fondant. This assist in keeping the dough stiff before being heated in a microwave for at least ten seconds. The dough can also be maintained at room temperature for at least thirty minutes to give it enough time to harden and be stiff during rolling.

This paves way for adding food colors into the mixture to make the marsh mallows have a definite color. This makes it darker since it absorbs the color of marsh mallows but adding sugar into the mixture dilutes the color giving it a light coloring.

One should also use a spoon to stir the sugar into the melted products by adding a half cup of sugar at a time. The cook should repeat this process until they add more than one and half cups of sugar into the mixture. The most preferable way of greasing is shortening method to counter top where the kneading process will occur.

The next step involves removing a small amount of fondant fro the tub and knead it well using the hands. This should continue until the mixture becomes soft and forms pliable dough. This paves way for addition of gum tex karaya to keep the pliable longer and easy to mold.

This paves way for trimming the sides of the cake with a sharp knife to ensure that it fits perfectly. In addition, the cook should add decorative edge on a cake to cover any imperfections that might occur in the fondant.




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