The Easiest Marshmallow Fondant Recipe On The Internet

Hi Bold Bakers. I've got some avid cake decorators out there who love to work with fondant. But do you know about marshmallow fondant? It is the simplest fondant to make an all you need are three ingredients, marshmallows, powdered sugar, and a little bit of water. It's that simple. So here I have the bowl of my stand mixer. You can also just use a regular bowl and make this by hand. Into this bowl I am going to add in all of my marshmallows. Just one big bag of marshmallows around a pound, 16 ounces. Wow, I love marshmallows. OK into this we're going to add in a little bit of water, just a few tablespoons. So now follow me over to the stove top where we're going to put this on a pot of water and let the marshmallows melt. So what's the difference between marshmallow fondant and a traditional fondant? Traditional fondant requires a lot of ingredients where marshmallows already have those ingredients in them, so you just use them instead. It is so much easier. Even if you're a novice Baker, even advanced Baker, I strongly recommend using marshmallow fondant over traditional. So now I'm choosing to do this over a Bain Marie, but you can also do this step in the microwave and it will just take a few minutes. So there you go. This has been around 5 minutes or so. It is lovely and soft. Look at that so we're going to bring it over here and put it on the mixer. OK, so put it on your mixer using that flat whisk. We're going to turn it on medium speed and we're going to dump in around 3/4 of our sugar just to bring the dough together first. So I can see my fondant is still pretty soft, so I'm going to add in the rest of my sugar. So every bag of marshmallows is different, so if you need more sugar than I have in the recipe, that's totally fine. What we're looking for is this. Check this out. See the way that it's still a little bit soft, but starting to firm up. This is the texture that we're looking for. This is perfect, so I'm going to turn it off the machine now. So now this is a little bit of a sticky job to get the marshmallow fondant out of your bowl. But here I have a little bit of flavorless oil like sunflower oil, canola oil, vegetable oil, and I'm going to put that on my hands and a little bit on my surface and I'm just going to scrape out my fondant. Don't worry if there’s a little bit of dry sugar in there 'cause we will need that in. And now what you want to do is just on your surface knead your fondant and if you feel like it's still a bit sticky, which it very well might be continue to add in more powdered sugar. This is a versatile recipe, so don't worry if you’re like adding in if you think too much powdered sugar or whatever what we're going for is a consistency and we're looking for this not to be sticky, but almost like mass. OK, so there you go. Now listen marshmallow. Fondant is so much cheaper to make than it is to go buy fondant, and so this is a really great resource. Now we have a white here, but you can color it any color you want and all you have to do is just simply take a piece of fondant, add in a little bit of a gel food coloring, something that's very concentrated in color. And just knead it in to your dough and just keep on kneading until you have the color all the way throughout. So to store marshmallow fondant, what I like to do is just rub the surface all over in a little bit of flavorless oil, and then I wrap it up nice and tight in cling wrap. Now this will last in your fridge covered for months on end, as long as it's nice and tight. Go to biggerbolderbaking.com where I've got an extensive post of how you can make and use marshmallow fondant. It is really simple. And if you make it, make sure to submit a photo on my website 'cause I love seeing your decorated cakes.