I made my first cake using fondant in my course 3 class last night. I really enjoyed working with it. I've never tasted fondant before, and wasn't very impressed with the wilton's premade one we used. I'm not comfortable attempting to make my own fondant--is there a way to add flavor to the premade kind--and how would I go about it.

I would just add a teaspoon or two, depending on how much your using....I added butter flavor to the wilton's and it wasn't as bad, but MMF still tastes way better to me
Its not that hard to make...really...you should try it!

I would just add a teaspoon or two, depending on how much your using....I added butter flavor to the wilton's and it wasn't as bad, but MMF still tastes way better to me
Its not that hard to make...really...you should try it!

The Wilton Yearbook (2005) suggests kneading in no-color flavors as you go (vanilla, butter, almond)-I would imagine sample a bit at a time to tweak? I'm not a fondant pro by any stretch (getting a crash refresher this weekend w/a wedding cake) but to cut down on cost I did make my own fondant for the first time-CC's MMF-it was far simpler than I had terrified myself over, far less expensive & really less of a fuss than BC, IMHO. I made 6 batches pretty easily & another member mentioned that substituting different flavors for just plain old vanilla, particularly almond, tasted very good.

Good luck &, truly, the homemade stuff was great to make!

I play with Fondant (Wilton's) this week for the first time and added vanilla flavor, since it was a small amount I just added a tsp and it tasted better. I'm thinking Butter or almond would do a better job. Haven't tried doing the fondant my self, but I will definitively try it soon.

Hope it helps!

You can kneed in regular extracts into the fondant. If it gets sticky, just kneed in a little bit of powder sugar.

You can also use candy oils, which is what I like to use, since it will take less of them to get a good flavor and it shouldn't make your icing sticky.

Oooh, I like the idea of the candy flavors-was just looking at them the other day & had since been wishing I picked up some mint flavoring for white chocolate candy mold leaves I put on a chocolate cake w/chocolate mint filling!!! Will definitely have to pick some up!

I just made several small batches of it last night. I substituted almond flavoring for some of the water. It tasted great.

I tried to add some flavoring to Wilton fondant and I still found it nasty. I would recommend trying the marshmallow fondant and adding oils, if available, since the flavour is more concentrated. Make sure that whatever you add is clear color, sometimes the oils can make your pure white fondant look slightly pinkish or orangish...

Inma