Fondant Icing Sugar?

Gloomtastic!

Trying to track down some fondant icing sugar in Dublin. Anyone know somewhere?

Bored_lad

I assume you mean normal fondant or roll out icing you should be able to get it in most supermarkets I know Dunnes, Tesco and Lidl usually stock it. Your specialist shops such as Decobake will also have it. You will probably only be able to get white fondant in your normal supermarkets but decobake will have most colours you need.

Athdara

I've never seen the Fondant icing sugar here. A friend brought me a few bags from the UK before from Sainburys .I just googled there & there's a place up the North. Maybe give them a call. its andrewsingredients I can't post links yet as I'm still new on here.

Faith

Do you mean premade stuff (ready to roll or be coloured) or the powdered stuff? The ready to roll is available everywhere that Bored_lad mentioned. The powdered stuff, I have only even seen in Aldi during one of their baking specials. It was Silver Spoon brand, like this:

Gloomtastic!

Thanks all.

Mrs G! Is making fondant fancies for a bake-off in work and the recipe calls for fondant icing.

Reading the recipe book it says Fondant Icing sugar is a combination of icing sugar and dried glucose syrup that you mix with water or juice.

I'll try Decobake in town tomorrow......

phormium

I have only seen it in Aldi too.

But Anna Olson Bake on the Food Network this morning made fondant fancies and she made the pouring fondant from scratch, there was no special sugar, just icing sugar. Mind you she used corn syrup which you will have difficulty getting too.

You can melt down the ready to roll fondant/sugarpaste but you need to be careful what consistency and temp you end up at as too thin and cool and it will not reset and just be a sticky mess.

Fondant fancies were made on one episode of the UK Bake Off too, maybe that's online somewhere, I think they just used the ordinary fondant melted, it was an awful messy job!

Gloomtastic!

phormium wrote: »

Fondant fancies were made on one episode of the UK Bake Off too, maybe that's online somewhere, I think they just used the ordinary fondant melted, it was an awful messy job!

It's the Bake Off recipe she's using......

phormium

Did they use the fondant sugar? I thought they just melted fondant, I must be thinking of something else.

Just googled it and the Mary Berry recipe that comes up shows fondant icing in the ingredients, not icing sugar.

And to actually add to Mary's instructions she says to beat the fondant icing in the mixer with water until it's the right consistency. I would actually stop before it is thin enough and put the bowl over hot water which will thin the icing more as it heats, then it will set better as it cools. You either need to be very quick covering them then or will need to reheat the icing between each go as it hardens quickly again as it cools but it will get a lot thinner this way and set better than if you just beat it cold to the required consistency.

Gloomtastic!

Ok, went to Decobake. They claim sugar paste and fondant icing are the same, not convinced but bought some anyway. The mixing with hot water makes sense to thin it/allow you to pour it over the small fancies.

I'll let Mrs G! loose on it tonight and report back.

Thanks again all.

phormium

Sugarpaste and fondant are the same thing, called fondant in US and is sneaking in here with all the US cake shows. Fondant/ready to roll icing/sugarpaste, all the same thing. Tesco do their own brand fondant icing and most supermarkets have it under some guise or brand.

Thin it too much and it won't set and will be sticky mess Get her to heat it slightly as per my previous post.

pigtail33

It's a little late, but I have seen, and purchased, Fondant Icing sugar in JCs in Swords. They used to stock all the Tate & Lyle icing sugars, but the last time I was out there, there was none in stock. Perhaps it's a permanent thing though, as they do seem to be scaling back a bit. I also bought the T&L Royal Icing sugar, which is much nicer than any of the other brands of royal icing mixes for when you're feeling lazy or only need to make a small amount.

Gloomtastic!

Thanks for the suggestion. After a couple of dry runs, she couldn't the icing to the right consistency so gave up!

phormium

Fondant fancies are very tricky to cover well, one of the few times Mr. Kipling is a good option. The consistency is very hard to get right.

Gloomtastic!

phormium wrote: »

Fondant fancies are very tricky to cover well, one of the few times Mr. Kipling is a good option. The consistency is very hard to get right.

One of the reasons I suggested she made them for the bake-off. A step ahead of the biscuit cakes and muffins! Unfortunately it was not to be and chocolate shortbread biscuits were made instead! :rolleyes: