Basic Fondant Recipe

Name: Basic Fondant Recipe
Yield: Makes about 400 g/14 oz
Ingredients: 400 g/14 oz/2 cups caster (superfine) sugar; 150 ml/½ pint/⅔ cup water

Preparation info

Makes about
400
g

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home-made Sweets & Candies

By Claire Ptak

Published 2022

About

Some recipes in this book will require a quantity of fondant, and will refer to the quantity made here. Start making this the day before you need to use it.

Ingredients

400 g/14 oz/2 cups caster (superfine) sugar
150

Dessert
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Make a basic sugar syrup with the sugar and water, following the steps.
Cook the syrup until it reaches the soft-ball stage (114°C/238°F on a sugar thermometer).
Follow the steps on this page for ‘Making fo