I finally made fondant using unflavored gelatin, light corn syrup & glycerin! OMG I will NEVER make Marshmallow Fondant again! I LOVE it!! I could tell before it was even fully mixed how much better it was!! I was a little intimidated before but it was really very easy. Not sure who's recipe it is but I would like to thank them for putting it on the web!!

Will you please share which recipe you used?

Sure if anyone knows who's it is or if its yours.... thank you!! I used vanilla extract instead of almond though. My son loved the flavor.


Fondant
Ingredients required to make the fondant recipe:
1 Tbsp of unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup of cold water
1 tsp of almond extract
1/2 cup of light corn syrup (If a corn syrup is not available, you can substitute it with a sugar syrup made with 1-1/4 cups sugar and 1/3 cup water, boiled together until syrupy)
1 Tbsp of glycerin (some recipes say its optional, believe me, its a must)
2 lbs 10X confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp of white vegetable shortening
First, sprinkle the gelatin over cold water in a small bowl and let it rest for 2 minutes to soften. Next, place the bowl in a microwave for 30 seconds on High, until the gelatin dissolves. After that, add the Almond extract and the corn syrup and the glycerin and stir until the mixture is smooth and clear (if the mixture is not turning smooth and clear, microwave it for an additional 15 to 20 seconds on high and stir again). Then, sift 1 1/2 pounds of the sugar into a large bowl.B esides that, make a hole in the sugar and pour the liquid mixture to it stir with a wooden spoon until the mixture becomes sticky. Next, sift some of the remaining 1/2 pound of sugar onto a smooth work surface and add as much of the remaining sugar as the mixture will take. After that, knead the fondant, adding a little more sugar if necessary, to form a smooth, pliable mass. Then, rub the vegetable shortening on your thumbs and knead it into the fondant. And wrap the fondant in plastic wrap and place it in a tightly sealed container to prevent it from drying out. Last, If the icing dries out and harden it can often be revived by popping it into a microwave oven for a few seconds and then kneading it back to life.

Thanks for posting this

i have only made mmf..can you explain how this recipie is different? i dont like how mmf drys out so quick and then when you try to moisten it it gets sticky!

I use one 16 oz bag of marshmallows, 1 two pound bag of powdered sugar and three table spoons of water. Much faster than traditional method.

yes thats the same mmf recipie I make..tastes great..just not the easiest to work with!

I live in Las Vegas. Very, very dry here. If I don't coat the mixing bowl, marshmallow bowl and my hands with enough shortening then the fondant is so dry it cracks. Very temperamental. Been making it for four years now with little trouble. Have you tried a food vacuum sealer? Very helpful.

I found this recipe to be just as quick and easy as the marshmallow one. True more ingredients and cost but same time to prepare. And a better end product in my opinion.

This recipe is different because it doesn't use any marshmallows.....

oooh..I shall try that one. I love the easiness and taste of mmf but sometimes I get cracks when covering a cake. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

I LOVE how easy MMF is to make and how cheap it is compared to SatinIce or Fondarific brands, plus it tastes SO much better. My top tip for using MMF is the microwave - shove that stuff in there for 30 seconds (less if it's not a full batch), knead with a touch of cornstarch on your hands (being careful because it can get almost liquid and very hot in the centre) and then use as normal. It brings it back to a lovely elastic quality. Having said that, it's been raining for a while in California, so maybe I'll feel differently about it in July!

Recipe is from the cook duke website. No actual name except the duke or cook duke. You can send an email with a pic of the cake you made using his/her fondant recipe, and he/she will post it with your comments.

Link to cook duke fondant recipe, and readers cakes, plus other recipes, here.

http://thecookduke.com/fondant-recipe/

Thank you warchild I will do that!

I know its amazing! The difference I found between mmf and the glycerin recipe was the mmf was stretchy and the glycerin fondant was more like clay. It doesn't bounce back when you roll it out. I also hate the taste of mmf and the glycerin stuff melts in your mouth so its more like frosting kind of. Mmf is chewy. Just what I found. Other people liked it much better too.

I agree... MMF is okay, but traditional fondant recipes yield a better product. I find MMF to be spongy compared to "real" fondant (for lack of a better term) and more cloyingly sweet.

its what i use too.it is from Toba Garrett's book....'The well decorated cake'.she has some nice recipes in there.

BlueMoon73, this recipe looks like a 1/2 batch of Michele Foster's fondant recipe...I agree, it's awesome ! Hers actually calls for vanilla, not almond extract. I just discovered it myself and I don't think that I'll use MMF unless it's an emergency

I personally love michelle fosters fondant. I have made both and hers is much easier. I have made both more than once.

I'm a great fan of Michele Foster's fondant, too. I've tried MMF, but marshmallows here in Mexico are made differently than in the US (I think they have a lot more gelatin), so it turns out even worse here than it does there. I use orange extract instead of/as well as vanilla. The citrus flavoring lowers the over-the-top sweetness of the fondant.

Is the glycerin fondant recipe as sickingly sweet as the mmf?

I love the look of fondant yet myself, my family, neighbors and friends (even some of the kids at church) thinks it is way too sweet especially mmf. I mix salt into my buttercream recipe to detract the extreme sweetness of powdered sugar. I have added salt to the mmf to do the same. Tasting it on it"s own(fondant) with the salt mixture, it isn't as sweet yet once combined with the cake and frosting, You'll be lying down with a sweet headache. I would love to use more fondant(I love satin ice yet it is a somewhat extra sweet too) but I would like to find a way to cut the sweetness or how to find a balance.

So what sort of gelatin does this recipe use? Although I'm now in California, I'm from England so I'm used to gelatin that comes in sheets. If the recipe calls for a tbsp, is it powdered or in crystals, or something? Maybe I WILL try it!

Englishlady, it's a powered gelatin that comes in an orange box (envelopes or a larger container)...Knox brand.

I'm interested to try this.

Just wondering if any of you add glyceryn to your MMF? Once I learned to do that I didn't have any more drying issues with it.

The MMF recipe I've tried is Macs Moms and it has glycerin. It's been great to work with but I'm pretty new to this whole cake thing and haven't yet tried MFF. That's next on my list!