Covapaste.

[Tindog]

I've been making enquiries with my local bakers about fondant. They tell me that they don't do fondant but do something called Covapaste which has a feint smell of vanilla. Has anyone come across this? Is it safe for bees?
Thanks in anticipation
Andy

 

[Hivemaker.]

Is it safe for bees?

Possibly, but I wouldn't use it, better using just plain white fondant containing, water/sugar/glucose.



Covapaste.

ingredients: sugar, vegetable oil, glucose syrup, humectants E420 & E422, water, stabilisers E413 & E415, flavouring (vanilla), colour E171, emulsifier E472c, acidity regulators E270 & E325, preservative E202

 

[Erichalfbee]

I've been making enquiries with my local bakers about fondant. They tell me that they don't do fondant but do something called Covapaste which has a feint smell of vanilla. Has anyone come across this? Is it safe for bees?
Thanks in anticipation
Andy

Make your own. Syrup and icing sugar. Mix till right consistency

 

[Hachi]

Make your own. Syrup and icing sugar. Mix till right consistency

In a mixer like a bread dough Erica?

 

[enrico]

Make your own. Syrup and icing sugar. Mix till right consistency

Golden syrup?

 

[Tindog]

Thank you everyone.
Andy

 

[Apiarisnt]

Maisies are doing Dulcofruct at £1.20 a kg at the moment. Last bakers' fondant I bought was £15 for 12.5 kg, so the same price. The Dulcofruct comes in wrapped, 1 cm thick, 1 kg slabs, so much easier to store and handle.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Golden syrup?

Ask ITLD?

 

[bingevader]

Ask ITLD?

Is it a trade secret!?
I'm always interested in other people's recipes if you'd care to share.

When we've needed to put it on, we've made a harder candy, bit like Kendal mint cake without the mint!
Seems to go down well with our bees.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Is it a trade secret!?
I'm always interested in other people's recipes if you'd care to share.

When we've needed to put it on, we've made a harder candy, bit like Kendal mint cake without the mint!
Seems to go down well with our bees.

No no secret. I'm sure ITLD's bees got golden syrup as a winter feed one year when he was offered it ridiculously cheaply. I was alluding to that.

yep....here it is
https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=281412&postcount=2

What I meant was that you could make "fondant" by mixing icing sugar with sugar syrup if you needed it in a hurry.....and no heating

 

[thenovice]

At least you will be able to tell if you fed too much. your spring crop will taste of vanilla