Rolling Fondant

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Awesome recipe - I substituted corn sirup with honey - it has the same qualities and used coconut oil as shortening - it worked as a dream and added taste to the fondant. I agree on holding back some sugar and adjust texture if needed. Love the texture of this fondant and it's so easy to make.

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i found start with 5 cups of sugar and slowly add from there to the texture was best, i read a read a few reviews who suggested this and they were right , i have not used more than 6 cups. i had never used or made fondante before and it worked fantastic .i will never stress again. thanks colleen (love to cook

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Can I substitute Margarine for the Shortening??

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This was my first time making fondant and it went very well :. The recipe called for using a stand mixer but i didn't have one so i mixed it using a wooden spoon, then using my hands to knead it and worked just fine. Also 8 cups of confectioner sugar was maybe a bit too much, in the end I only used 5 cups. (Guessing it might be the humidity in the air? Otherwise, great recipe!

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I was extremely nervous making fondant for the first time. However, this recipe (out of the many I have looked at got the best reviews for ease and actually working in the end. Even with messing up a few things, it didn't become unusable. Excellent suggestions with the dough hook, getting everything all the ingredients together before melting the gelatin, and kneading by hand after all the sugar is picked up. 4 out of 5 because while it may be easy the directions are not dummy proof.

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It worked out well! Refer to the review posted by SoVeryBlessed. Before dissolving the gelatin, I placed all other ingredients into my KitchenAid mixing bowl first. Once the gelatin dissolved I added it to my bowl and mixed using the dough hook. I scraped down as needed but felt a little bit more water would help so I added less than 1/4 tsp of water and kept it running a while longer until the fondant stopped picking up the rest of the powdered sugar at the bottom of the bowl. That's when I dumped it all onto my mat and kneaded by hand. Do it this way and I don't think you can go wrong!

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thanks to the comments (moreover the blogspot with pics to boot by "SoVeryBlessed" I attempted this recipe. I followed the 900 odd gms of sugar qty and it worked out well.
The pics on her blogspot gave me the confidence to continue kneading with my hand till it formed into a dough.
Having used "Satin Ice" fondant on prior occasions, that too gave me the confidence to gauge the consistency and "thickness" of the final product.

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Easy, worked the first time. Might need just a little more water, but other than that very nice.

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This was my first attempt at Fondant.
I used 967 Grams of Powdered Sugar as suggested by another reviewer. (I bake a lot and have learned that cup measurements are not too accurate. In addition I used an additional tbsp of water and 1/2 tsp of Almond extract added during the kneading. The last 1/4 tsp of water seemed to be too much, but with a tiny dusting of powdered sugar and more kneading it was just fine.
I attempted to use my Kitchen Aid, but it growled and stained under the pressure of mixing something so thick. So I dumped the mess onto the counter instead.
The true test will be putting this on a butter cream frosted cake. But, since I have never rolled fondant before take it for what it is worth.
If you'd like to see pictures of what I did here is a link to my blog. http://ldsmomtomany.blogspot.com/2010/09/rolling-fonadant-recipe-review-food.html

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I have tried many a fondant recipe and gotten different results, but none so bad. At first all I got was crumbs, nothing near to a paste or dough. Had to add almost double the water to get even close. Had to refrigerate for half hour before there was any sign of it being solid. And when I went to roll it, all it was was a non cohesive mass, couldn't even get to roll, it just fell apart. So I had to take a bunch of tips from other fondant recipes to get even close, and had to knead it for a half hour to make something close to fondant. Haven't even bothered to put on a cake, cause I know it will fall off. Overall, EPIC FAIL of a recipe :(