Chocolate Fondant - Real Recipes from Mums

I find that you go to lots of trouble to decorate a cake, and a lot of the time people just leave the icing on the plate. This Is a great way of getting a smooth finish and just tastes like chocolate.

Ingredients

1 lb White Chocolate
1/2 Cup Light corn Syrup
Food colouring (optional)

Method

Chop Chocolate and place in a large microwave safe bowl.
Microwave until melted, stirring every 45 seconds
Remove and stir until smooth
Add the corn syrup and stir until the mixture is thoroughly combined.
Spoon mixture onto large piece of Gladwrap and wrap securely.
Allow the chocolate to cool and solidify at room temperature, for at least 6hrs or overnight.
Soften by kneading or microwave on short 10sec intervals till soft enough to work with.
Continue to knead until smooth and pliable. If sticking dust your hands with icing sugar
If your adding colour divide and knead in colour don't use too much as it may make it too soft again.
Decorate as desired. I rolled flat and covered cake. Then made a bow with some I had coloured (it sits quite firm so no need to prop up)

Notes

You can use milk or dark chocolate. If using dark chocolate increase corn syrup to 2/3 cup. Also use cocoa powder when rolling instead of powdered sugar. This also works with your dairy free chocolates.

43 Comments

- - mom112217 said
  - 19 Jul 2017
    9:16 am
Your cake look’s very impressive,great for a special occasion!

- - mom93821 said
  - 03 Feb 2017
    6:36 pm
Gorgeous looking fondant and beautiful cake.
- mom93821 replied
  
  04 Feb 2017 , 6:12 am
  I have this in mind for a special celebration cake.
- - tobrien84 said
  - 01 May 2016
    9:22 pm
How fantastic! I bake a lot of cakes and have never tried this icing before, will give it a try

- - mom109229 said
  - 29 Jun 2015
    10:06 pm
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve never made this icing before. I’ll give it a try.

- - mom57808 said
  - 12 Apr 2015
    7:27 am
oooh yummmmmo

- - GeoEllie said
  - 26 Jan 2015
    2:30 pm
Nice recipe to have on hand, thank you

- - mom94125 said
  - 02 Nov 2014
    11:44 pm
thanks so much for sharing this

- - shortaez said
  - 16 Oct 2014
    10:24 am
Sending this to my sister she loves making cakes

- - mom94125 said
  - 05 Oct 2014
    12:31 pm
this looks so good
i wish that i was as good at decorating as you certainly are!
i am going to practice

- - kazh said
  - 30 Aug 2014
    11:49 pm
yum. chocolate anything works for me.

- - Happymum-2 said
  - 27 Aug 2014
    10:06 am
this sounds lovely and so simple to make

- - sparkle7 said
  - 17 Aug 2014
    9:46 pm
Always looking for new ideas/ recipes for icing cakes. Thanks for sharing this.

- - ginoula5 said
  - 10 Aug 2014
    5:32 pm
love how you decorated this, so beautiful, thanks for sharing

- - mouse said
  - 31 Jul 2014
    8:00 pm
will have to share this with my friend who loves to bake and uses fondant alot

- - mom57522 said
  - 31 Jul 2014
    7:43 pm
Awesome! Love cake decorating so will be trying this for sure!

- - mel_phillips said
  - 29 Jul 2014
    9:48 am
Would love to be skilled to work with fondant! So much to be done with it!

- - mrsdew17 said
  - 31 May 2014
    9:18 pm
Looks like a present all wrapped up! Thanks for the recipe. Didn’t know about the corn syrup addition to chocolate.

- - kazh said
  - 31 May 2014
    1:30 am
This is a great idea

- - lou3 said
  - 30 May 2014
    3:25 pm
Looks great thx for sharing

- - Happymum-2 said
  - 29 May 2014
    2:41 pm
this sounds a delightful fondant recipe