How To Make Fondant Icing

We often look at three tiered wedding cakes or elaborately decorated birthday cakes and wonder how the topmost layer of icing looks more tempting than everything else. That thick layer of icing on which there may be decorations made from flavoured icing looks as if it was manufactured by little angels and not by human beings. Only few know it is called fondant icing and that it is, indeed, made by human beings like us. Fondant icing is commonly used to decorate wedding cakes. It includes gelatin (or agar in vegetarian recipes) and food-grade glycerine, which keep the sugar pliable and creates a dough-like consistency. Fondant icing, also known as rolled fondant is rolled out like a pie crust and used to cover the cake. This gives the cakes a smooth appearance on which one can make choicest decorations; in fact, one can also transform fondant icing into dimensional objects such as flowers, cartoon characters, and ribbons to decorate the cakes made at home and give them the professional touch that children love to see and show off. Here’s how to make fondant icing at home.