I wanted to try MMF, it's tasted great, but I think I added too much powdered sugar as it is beyond stiff and hard to roll out. I let it sit over night and it was easier to work with today but still very, very stiff.
It was going well, was too hard to roll out with the Wilton fondant pin so I was using a really heavy marble rolling pin I inherited. I got it covered and was rolling out and cutting stripes of fondant to go on it, when I felt a thud and my rolling pin is literally sheared in half and the piece of fondant I was rolling out is covered in marble dust. 
Now what.... it was my Mother-in-law's rolling pin and I don't know how I am going to explain this one to the hubby..... I desperately wanted it for rolling out pastry so he and my father-in-law tore up his mom's kitchen looking for it and gave it to me for Christmas.
I'm also afraid of MMF now for fear I'll go break more stuff....
i'm so sorry, that is so sad, i know that you can replace the rolling pin but that is not the same as someone(s) going to all that trouble to do something that special for you-again i'm so sorry--can't help with hubby though---please don't give up on MMF my first batch went in the trash but i'm gonna try again & when you are felling better about the treasure you lost you should try again too
Wow, didn't know that could even happen. Sorry it did! I've used my marble rolling pin every time I've used MMF and never had any problems. If you want to soften your MMF knead in some Crisco... just a very tiny bit at a time until it's soft enough to roll out. I've heard that some people also warm it up... just slightly, to make it softer.
Maybe the rolling pin had a crack in it somewhere and the force made the crack split through. I bet this had been dropped at some time (before you had it). Doesn't seem to me that the MMF alone could cause a marble rolling pin to crack apart.
Hope your husband is understanding! 
that happened to me.... except the handles snapped off the ends instead. The body is still intact.
I can't help with getting it fixed, but I can offer the advice that hopefully you can get a fondant rolling pin. It's the BEST!! It's absolutely wonderful.....
good luck
b
I use a plastic rolling pin it is basically a long plastic cylinder (no handles)
Ready for the physics lesson? 
I think maybe the marble does not give enough and so the stress has no way to release but my plastic pin bends and is not as solid as the marble.
I know really scientific but you might be better off with the plastic one, plus the plastic ones are cheaper (and no marble dust 
). I got mine at Michaels for about $20.
. I compleatly forgot that with my last cake and that is porb. why it dried quickly and ripped. Thanks I did soften it in the microwave and the piece it broke on was one I had been playing with for a long time and had kneaded some color into it... go figure...
Oh well hubby liked the taste of the MMF so much he didn't really notice that it was broken at first... when he did, he knew I was upset about it and said he'll try and get me a replacement sometime. He thinks it must have had a stress fracture from before it was given to me, since the whole thing just is just split and crumbled... no way to fix it.
My father-in-law has promised to go dig through his garage... he thinks he recalls seeing several plastic tubs of cake decorating stuff buried in there. Evidently my mother-in-law used to do a lot of cake decorating.
Just curious how thick each of us is rolling out our fondant.
Compared to others, I think mine is too thin.
The most successful fondant covered cakes seem to have a huge thickness... almost a quarter of an inch... which to me is thick... but the cakes are successful.
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