How To Fix Sticky Fondant

How Do Yous Ready Sticky Fondant so it'south Easy to Work With

Cake Decorating

Sticky fondant is impossible to work with, and at that place are several reasons it tin can happen. Some shop-bought fondant brands are worse than others for handling, and sometimes information technology's in which environment you are working.

If y'all make your ain fondant, it may be due to the recipe you lot are following. On the other hand, it may exist the brand of confectioners/icing sugar yous are using.

Whatever is causing your viscid fondant, there are ways to fix it, then don't despair; merely read on and find out what to exercise.

One of the reasons your fondant is besides viscid maybe considering the kitchen you are working in is too warm. Yous may live where the climate is hot, so an air conditioner would be a good investment if yous plan to decorate many cakes.

Yous may live where the climate is hot and humid, so besides the air conditioner, using a dehumidifier may be the answer. It will maintain a absurd and dry surround that volition brand your fondant easier to handle.

If yous cannot use ac or a dehumidifier, don't despair considering there are other ways of coping with sticky fondant.

Fondant too gluey, then make sure everything is cool.

Viscous fondant is non only difficult to work with: it is also most unpleasant to feel it sticking to your easily. The most frustrating thing is that you can't do annihilation with it.

The all-time means to combat sticky fondant are…

Commencement of all, you lot need to make sure your kitchen or workroom is as cool every bit possible. That means not working with fondant while ovens are used for blistering.

If it'due south cooler in the evening than in the daytime, do your fondant work then. Information technology may be humid in the evening exterior, so don't be tempted to open the windows, or yous will bring the boiling temper into your workplace.

On the other side of your kitchen, set an electrical fan going on its lowest setting and then it doesn't blow the sugar all over the place. That will go along you lot absurd while you work on the fondant.

Cool your hands nether running common cold water, so you are not transferring any rut from them to the fondant, exercise this often while y'all are working if your hands become hot simply remember to dry them thoroughly each time before touching the fondant.

Nevertheless not fixed your sticky fondant?

Try kneading a footling more confectioners/icing sugar into the fondant, a teaspoonful at a time, but non too much because it is liable to go too dry. If, by fault, you add together too much, and then attempt warming it earlier you knead the fondant again and come across if that helps.

Subsequently adding more than confectioners/ icing sugar, you observe that the fondant is still sticking to the board; try sprinkling some cornstarch/cornflour onto the fondant and on the board and rolling pivot as well.

Confectioners/icing sugar has a little cornstarch/cornflour added to it when produced to stop it clumping together but not plenty to preclude sticky fondant. Don't use too much, or you will find it volition become the other way and be also dry, the aforementioned as if you added besides many confectioners/ icing sugar.

I have been using this recipe for rolling fondant for many years, and I always have success with it. I alive where it gets hot in the summer, but I just occasionally accept humidity problems, so I don't work with fondant on those days. If you have no selection but to work with information technology, follow the tips I accept already given you.

https://www.sugarflowersworkshop.com/the-easiest-rolled-fondant-icing-recipe/

Some brands of confectioners/icing sugar work better than others, so you may have to experiment with the different brands until y'all notice i that works well for yous.

Using the wrong coloring will make your fondant gummy.

If you've used liquid food color, that may exist the reason you have ended up with a sticky fondant mess.

The colors you must use with fondant are Gel Food Colors . These have been peculiarly adult, so they don't alter the fondant's consistency.

I take written an article on how to color gum paste, but it too applies to the fondant.

https://www.sugarflowersworkshop.com/colour-glue-paste-budget/

There are enough of gel color brands on the market, and some are better than others. I have always used SugarFlair, but in that location are lots to choose from, then if you lot want to get an idea of how practiced or bad they are, then read the reviews on them on websites such as Amazon written past people who accept used them and then you can choose.

If you want a very dark colored fondant, you may demand to add a big corporeality of coloring gel to become the depth of color you require. If you lot do, your fondant volition all the same be liable to become gummy.

If you require a dark fondant for a one-off project, it may be a good thought to buy it from a cake supplier. The fondant will have been colored professionally by the producer and not sticky. It will be much better than trying to start with white fondant and color it yourself.

How practice yous harden rolling fondant flowers?

Your 3-dimensional fondant flowers, petals, and leaves may not be firm enough to keep their shape when they are dry. Endeavour kneading in some gum tragacanth or CMC into the fondant, specially if you alive where it is hot and humid.

If you don't want the flowers to be also hard, and so add one teaspoon of either gum tragacanth or CMC/Tylose to 500g fondant. Information technology will exist platonic for unproblematic second or 3D flowers that you want to proceed their shape but will be cut and eaten with the cake.

If you desire to brand more than elaborate flowers, east.m., wired, and so two teaspoons of gum tragacanth or CMC/Tylose to 500g fondant.

Call up, if you lot add gum tragacanth to the fondant, it needs to be left for at least iv hours (preferably overnight) before using it. If yous add CMC, you lot tin use it directly away.

With the add-on of glue to your fondant, flowers will gear up quite hard, especially if you add a more substantial amount, and should set hard enough to make wired flowers.

Even so, exist wary of using fondant with gum added to make flowers if they are being transported to a venue as the vehicle's vibration may break them.

If you lot feel it is safe to send the cake, check beforehand that the venue has air conditioning. If information technology has a humid atmosphere, your flowers may intermission easily, and in extreme cases, flowers have been known to melt.

Rolling fondant is for covering a block and has ingredients added to it that allow the fondant to fix only e'er to stay soft plenty to be cutting easily.

Even if you add gum to rolling fondant to make elaborate wired flowers, they volition never gear up every bit difficult as flowers made with gum paste.

If your fondant is sticky considering y'all live where it's hot and humid, you may like to read an article I've written that covers those types of situations. It's called "Tips for Extreme Conditions Cake Decorators: Rolling Fondant."

Tips for Extreme Weather Cake Decorators: Rolling Fondant

Accept I solved your sticky fondant issues?

Most of the time, fixes I accept covered in this article work well, but at that place are always exceptions.

In that location accept been occasions when I have been unable to sympathise why null will put the fondant right, and I've to throw it abroad and started once again.

Fortunately for me, those times have been few and far between, and it'southward always been with fondant I bought from a cake supplier, not with my homemade fondant.

Each fourth dimension I suspect there was something wrong with that detail batch, so peradventure it was a good thing I couldn't fix information technology.

I promise I have covered enough fixes to solve your sticky fondant problems. If I haven't and you yet take a fondant trouble that I haven't covered, leave a bulletin in the comments beneath, and I will effort my best to find a solution for you.

If you accept any other fixes you lot use, delight share them with us in the comments beneath.

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6 thoughts on "How Do You Fix Sticky Fondant then it's Like shooting fish in a barrel to Work With"

here rainy season my cake toppers with gumpaste is sticky when keep information technology in a microwave… whatsoever sun for go far hard…
1. Hullo
  It seems y'all have a large trouble with working in your weather conditions.
  I don't live in an surface area where we accept very loftier humidity and so I oasis't experienced information technology myself.
  Notwithstanding, look at my weblog post virtually drying gumpaste flowers.
  
  https://www.sugarflowersworkshop.com/how-to-dry out-saccharide-paste-flowers-faster/
  
  You might find that the answer to your problem is to dry them in the oven or to using a dehydrator to dry out the flowers completely and then seal them in an closed box with a sachet of silica gel until you lot are fix to use them.
  All-time wishes
  Joyce
What if you have hard modest lumps of sugar in the fondant??
I have just made fondant to cover cup cakes for a hymeneals. I halved the recipe, butI added too much cream to cook the gelatine. It tastes expert, but it's a bit too soft, can I add together more than pure icing sugar to rescue it?
1. Hullo Pat,
  
  Yes, try kneading a lilliputian more than confectioners/icing saccharide into the fondant, a teaspoonful at a fourth dimension.
  
  Knead it well between additions so yous tin check the texture, which will preclude you from adding more than than it needs, making information technology also dry out.
  
  Best wishes
  Joyce