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How To Make Your Own Fondant
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Sep 6, 2024
In this video I show how to make your own fondant. It's more affordable than buying it AND it tastes delicious! For the full recipe click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/fondant/ SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hello! I'm Emily of British Girl Bakes and I'm going to show you how to make
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fondant. Fondant is really expensive to buy and it doesn't usually taste very
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good. Making fondant yourself is cheaper and it tastes delicious! Full disclosure
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it's a very messy process so you have to be prepared to get your hands dirty or
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in this case, sticky! Make sure you give yourself about 45 minutes to make this
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It has to be completed from start to finish so you'll need a decent chunk of
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time. These are the ingredients you'll need. You can find the full recipe on my
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website www.britishgirlbakes.com. Start by mixing the gelatin with room temperature water and leaving it to make a jelly. This takes about 10 minutes. Once
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the gelatin mixture has set, we're going to heat it over a very low heat to
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dissolve the gelatin slowly. If there are any little clumps of gelatin, like the
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white blobs you can see here, you should remove them because they'll leave strained, worm-like strings in your fondant. Once the gelatin has melted and
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is liquid again, which takes about five minutes, we're going to add glucose
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Glucose is the nightmarish sticky gloop that makes this process messy. Get as
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close to the recipe's quantity out of the tub and into the pan but don't worry
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too much about getting every last drop because you'll drive yourself crazy
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You can see the glucose in the mixture. It's a thick mass in the liquid. Leave
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the heat on low and keep stirring occasionally until the liquid is fluid
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without that gloopy gel. It will take about five minutes. While the glucose is
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slowly melting, prepare your powdered sugar. Choose a big surface and dump your
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sugar in the middle. If it's clumpy it's really important to sift it otherwise you
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can get hard little lumps of sugar in your fondant. Okay back to the stove. My
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glucose has melted and now we're going to add glycerin. Stir that in and then
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add vegetable shortening. This takes a while to melt so be patient and stir
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occasionally until it's completely dissolved into the mixture. If you want all of your fondant to be the same colour, you can add gel colours now. I
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recommend gels over liquids because they're much more concentrated and will give you a strong colour without adding a lot of water to your mixture. Now add
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your flavouring. Any clear coloured flavouring is fine so if you want the
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flavour to be vanilla you'll need artificial vanilla. That's my favourite but almond is nice too. Turn off the heat and leave the liquid to cool for a few
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minutes. Make a big well in your powdered sugar which is where you're going to
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pour the liquid. You need somewhere for it to go or it will spill out across
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your table or whatever surface you're using. You can rub vegetable shortening
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onto your hands to try to stop the fondant sticking to your hands. Definitely take off any rings you're wearing. Pour the liquid into the well
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and scoop powdered sugar up to incorporate it. I warned you this would
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be messy! Once you have a pile of stickiness, start kneading. Don't add any
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more sugar even if you think it's too sticky. The quantities in the recipe are
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perfect and the fondant will set in a few hours and become firmer so don't
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worry if it doesn't feel quite right at this point. You can always add more sugar
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after the fondant sets if you're still convinced it's too sticky. If you're
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enjoying this tutorial please click the thumbs up button! Subscribe to my channel
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to see a new cake decorating tutorial every week! When you have a ball of
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fondant, wrap it tightly in cling film or saran wrap. You'll probably need two
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pieces so you can wrap it one way and then the other
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Then put the ball in a big ziploc bag. This will stop your fondant from drying
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out. You can store your fondant at room temperature for several weeks. If you
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have a metal cake lifter or scraper it's a great tool to scrape up the remnants
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of the fondant from your table or countertop. Then use a sponge with hot
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water to get the rest off. There we go! Homemade fondant that's delicious and
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more affordable than buying it! Watch my other tutorials for ideas of how to
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decorate a cake with your fondant. Thanks for watching! I share a new cake
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