For me, using fondant for a fancy cake is a cheat.  I am WAY more impressed if you can make a beautiful cake with skill and fluff.  Lucy, my daughter, wanted to do a certain cupcake recipe that involved fondant.  She looked up the ingredients in fondant and was not impressed with all the extra crap included in this culinary play-dough.

So she watched a youtube video on how to make fondant and off she went.

Making fondant is a very sticky process.  There was a moment there where she thought, ” well, I blew it.”  There was no way this sticky marshmallow mess would arrive at something you could roll out and carve.

But, she kept going.  eventually, a dough ball came around.

After her cupcakes were cooled, she managed to complete her recipe.

Homemade fondant requires

• marshmallow
• water
• powdered sugar

She used this recipe on Youtube … uh … which is in French, but you might be able to follow along or find an equivalent.

For me, I am excited to share that you can make this stuff!! And as I don’t like fondant, her fondant was wonderful.