Everything about Fondant totally explained
Fondant is a cream
confection used as a filling or coating for
cakes,
pastries, and
candies or
sweets. In its simplest form, it's
sugar and
water cooked to a point, specifically the
soft-ball stage, cooled slightly, and stirred or beaten until it's an opaque mass of creamy consistency. Fondant is commonly used to
decorate wedding cakes. This gives the cakes a smooth appearance.
Chemistry
Fondant is formed by
supersaturating sucrose in water. 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 furiously, violently mixing the entire mixture, it'll form many tiny crystals and result in a smooth texture.
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