Saturday, July 25, 2009

First Batch of homemade fondant - For my Threadcake!!

I made my first batch of homemade fondant today, using Chelly's recommended recipe!
Day one of my threadcake...done! woot!

She told me about this,

But I actually used this.

Step one: put on your awesome Cake is Awesome, awesome t-shirt that is awesome! werd.

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Step 2. Prepare the marshmallows for your fondant.

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Step 3: Melt your marshmallows in the microwave

Step 4: add a TON of powdered sugar to your melted concoction!!

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Step 5: Mix!!

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Step 6: ummm, yeah...your concoction will be a tad sticky @ this stage!

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don't forget to taste your product! nom nom noms!

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The kid helped too!

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Try not to drop powdered sugar on your dog...

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When you're done, it should look like this!

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We put our tasty & delicious homemade fondant in the fridge overnight, and tomorrow we will make our threadcake!! woot!!

3 comments:

the golden spatula said...

That looks like so much fun - looking forward to see the next steps :)

Tess Laeh said...

omg i used that same exact receipe and mine melted! I'm glad yours did not do the same

MC said...

Thank you for this! I discovered this post via the threadcake flickr photo and now I'm inspired to make my own fondant!

It looks like you had tons of fun making your own! :)