- A sweet creamy sugar paste used in candies and icings.
- A candy containing this paste.
[French, from present participle of fondre, to melt, from Latin fundere.]
fondant
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Minute sugar crystals in a saturated sugar syrup; used as the creamy filling in chocolates and biscuits and for decorating cakes. Prepared by boiling sugar solution with the addition of
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[FAHN-duhnt] A simple sugar-water-cream of tartar mixture cooked to the soft-ball stage. After cooling, the mixture is beaten and kneaded until extremely pliable. It can be formed into decorations or candy, which can be dipped in chocolate. Heating fondant makes it soft enough to be used as an icing to coat large and small cakes. food coloring and flavoring can be added for visual and taste appeal. Fondant can be refrigerated, tightly wrapped, for up to 3 months.
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Poured fondant is a cream confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. In its simplest form, it is sugar and water cooked to the soft-ball stage, cooled slightly, and stirred or beaten until it is an opaque mass of creamy consistency. Sometimes lemon is added to the mixture, mainly for taste. Other flavourings are used as well, as are various colourings. The main filling of a Cadbury's Creme Egg is poured fondant.
Rolled fondant or fondant icing, which is not the same material as poured fondant, 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. Rolled fondant is rolled out like a pie crust and used to cover the cake. This gives the cakes a smooth appearance. Poured fondant can also be rolled out and used for this purpose.[1]
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Chemistry
Poured fondant is formed by supersaturating sucrose. More sugar will dissolve in water with a higher temperature.
Then, after the sucrose is dissolved, the solution is left to cool and the sugar will remain dissolved in the supersaturated solution until nucleation occurs.
- If, while the solution is supersaturated, a seed crystal (undissolved sucrose) falls into the mix, or the solution is agitated the dissolved sucrose will crystallize to form large, crunchy crystals.
- If, however, the solution is allowed to cool and then stirred vigorously it will form many tiny crystals and result in a smooth texture.
It should be noted that while it is an excellent medium for decoration and sculpture, it can be very sweet.
Popular culture
Fondant is popular on many cake-related televisions shows, including shows such as Ace of Cakes, and Cake Boss which often showcase decorators creatively decorating cardboard structures with fondant, among other things.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fondant, sukkermasse
Nederlands (Dutch)
fondant (basis voor snoep en decoratielagen), fondant (snoepje)
Français (French)
n. - (Culin) fondant (préparation), fondant (pâtisserie)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Fondant (Süßigkeit)
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μαγειρ.) φοντάν
Português (Portuguese)
n. - doce (m) de açúcar que parece derreter na boca
Español (Spanish)
n. - pasta de azúcar
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fondant, sockermassa
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
糖果软馅, 方旦糖
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 糖果軟餡, 方旦糖
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 설탕을 녹여 크림 모양으로 만든
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) أقراص حلوى تذوب في الفم
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - יצקת (ממתק), פונדן, פיצפוצי סוכר בטעם מסוים
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