Week 3: Fondant

Friday May 20, 2011

Last Friday was a day filled with fondant. Fondant is basically play dough that you can mold. There are, however, several tricks to the trade. The first trick is that in order to avoid the fondant sticking to the table or any other working surface, you have to spread powdered sugar on the surface. This makes the fondant less adhesive and as long as the fondant is shifted periodically, it is safe from sticking. Another trick is the pasta rolling machine. It allows for the fondant to be rolled out to a certain thickness. The machine has several settings, which allows for increased thinness. In order to make certain shapes, cookie cutters work really well too. Another element of fondant is coloring. This is done by starting with white fondant and then add food coloring to the white base. Once the food coloring is needed thoroughly, the fondant will have changed the color of the fondant. Just a tip, where gloves. I can't tell you how weird it is to have pink hands for a day or two. On Friday, Eileen and I worked on making swimming pool lanes. Each lane consisted of at least thirty tiny balls of fondant.