Baking , Fondant, and Corn Syrup
Fondant is a combination of powdered or confectioners sugar, water, unflavored gelatin, glucose or corn syrup, cornstartch and flavoring. You can find a recipie online or by premade fondant that you can dye, flavor and roll out at home.
Yes, you can substitute icing sugar with fondant icing sugar to make fondant icing, as both are powdered sugars. However, fondant icing sugar is specifically formulated for making fondant, often containing additional ingredients that help achieve a smoother texture and better elasticity. Keep in mind that the final texture and consistency may vary slightly depending on the specific brand and formulation of the fondant icing sugar used.
Fondant icing typically requires powdered sugar, gelatin, glycerin, water, and corn syrup. To make it, dissolve gelatin in water, then mix it with corn syrup and glycerin. Gradually add powdered sugar until a smooth, pliable dough forms. Roll it out to cover cakes or shape it into decorations, ensuring the surface is dusted with cornstarch or powdered sugar to prevent sticking.
Powdered sugar is made by finely grinding regular sugar. Corn starch or flour may be added to make it flow easier.
The fondant and marshmallow makes it smooth
One can learn to make a fondant at the Sugar Coated Chronicle. This blogspot has multiple posts and its instructions are extremely through and detailed enough that an amateur can probably create a fondant.
The modified food starch that is used to make the blue raspberry Airheads is chemically treated native starch. There are many other ingredients in blue raspberry Airheads including sugar and corn syrup.
If you want to make fondant at home, marshmallow fondant is much easier and simpler to make then traditional European fondant. All you need is 16 ozs of mini (mini!) marshmallows, two pounds of confectionery sugar, a sprinkle of water, and some shortening.
the ingredients are: Sugar, corn-starch, glucose syrup, tapioca, gelatin (BEEF) and artificial flavouring! But i dont know how to make it
corn starch
I don't think many recipes that need powdered sugar would work with a substitute, but you can make powdered sugar if you have a food processor. Put granulated sugar in the food processor and a little corn starch (about one teaspoon of corn starch to one cup of sugar). Run the food process for several minutes checking periodically to see if the sugar is fine enough. When it's powdery you can use it in your recipe.
Sure, you can make flowers out of fondant, gumpaste, modeling chocolate, or buttercream; which material is best to use depends on what you want to do with the flowers after you make them, how long you want them to last, how hard you need them to be, etc. You can get a ton of information on each of the above mediums at CakeCentral.com, as well as countless other websites. Cakesbydesign.cc (Not .com) is a great place for supplies and info. If you do a search on fondant or gumpaste flowers, you'll get more info than you ever wanted! :)