Fantasy Fondant

        Hi Everyone!  Look at me, my very first post on my blog! How exciting!  Well my daughter's 8th birthday is quickly approaching and she wants a rainbow cake for her rainbow art themed party. So since I have no experience with making a rainbow cake nor working with fondant, I decided to give it a semi-trial run.
        I went to Michael's and was searching through the aisles to see what kinds of products were out there to use.  When I saw the price of fondant, I thought "No way am I going to spend that much money."  Soooo I went searching an online bulletin board and "Viola!" I came upon an inexpensive and EASYYYYYYY way to make fondant myself and it said it is better tasting too!  And they were right! So I'm going to share with you what I did.

Fun Fantasy Fondant

Ingredients

•  16 ounces of mini marshmallows
• 3 tbsp of water
• 6 cups of powered sugar
• Crisco vegetable shortening
  
  
  
  

  

  I used parchment paper for easy clean up afterwards. Also coat
  your mixing spoon and parchment paper with Crisco to avoid
  excessive sticking of the marshmallows once melted.

  
  
   

I put the marshmallows and water in a microwave safe dish and
microwaved for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. I stopped and stirred
 the marshmallows every 30 seconds until they were nice and
 smooth.



Smooth as silk

 

 



Add about half of the powered sugar and mix it in. Then pour
it onto the parchment paper.

Gradually add in the rest of the powered sugar, folding it in.
Be sure to coat your hands with Crisco before working the
powdered sugar in. Otherwise it will be a gooey mess.


 
















Keep kneading the powdered sugar in until it is all mixed well.
You will know it is ready when you can stretch the fondant
about arms length without it breaking or being too sticky.

Just about done.  If it is too dry, just add a tiny bit of water.




 



After breaking the fondant into balls, it is now time to
add the food coloring gel.  This was actually the most
time consuming part of the process.  I just added a small
amount of gel to each ball and kneaded it in, until I got
my desired color.


 

Ta-Dah! Rainbow colored fondant!  I let the fondant
sit for a little while before using it. I wrapped each ball
in plastic wrap so they wouldn't dry out and the colors
seemed to have gotten deeper since it was allowed
 to sit a bit.

Now like I stated earlier, I just wanted to get a feel for how to work with fondant for my daughter's birthday party. So I didn't actually make the rainbow cake, but I did decorate some cupcakes. Here are a few pictures.

By making my own fondant, not only did I save a lot money, but it tastes pretty good too!  Not to mention, I think it's pretty to look at.  Anyway, thank you for reading my first post and I look forward to sharing many more with you!

                                                                                                                  Keep Krafting,

                                                                                                                  Kellee
PS.
  Now that I'm an official blogger, I promise to take better pictures.