more fondant d.i.y.

[mrbees2]

Just reading the forum regarding d.i.y. fondant. Can I use the boxed fondant icing sugar mixed with water - would that provide the same result. i have a box of silver spoon icing sugar and the ingrediants are just icing sugar and dried glucose syrup. Thanks.

 

[hallshoney]

not a good idea i think icing sugar has corn flour in it

 

[victor meldrew]

not a good idea i think icing sugar has corn flour in it

Icing sugar is recommended for sugar dusting regimes as Varroa control!
VM

 

[itma]

not a good idea i think icing sugar has corn flour in it

Not so.
But you do mix cornflour with icing sugar before you use it to dust your home-made Turkish Delight.
That might be the source of the confusion.


"Fondant" icing sugar, as labelled by Silver Spoon, as stated above, just contains sugar and powdered glucose - nothing else.
As such, it should be fine - but distinctly expensive, more than double the cost of ordinary sugar.
I don't know how difficult it might be to get a smooth stiff mix with this stuff.
Keep us informed!

 

[Rosti]

Icing sugar usually contains an anti caking agent, commonly silicon hexacyanofurrate. Safe for humans, probably sub 2%. OK for bees? Who knows. Pay your money, make your choice.

 

[itma]

Icing sugar usually contains an anti caking agent, commonly silicon hexacyanofurrate. Safe for humans, probably sub 2%. OK for bees? Who knows. Pay your money, make your choice.

There's no declared anti-caking agent on Silver Spoon's packet.

I don't have a pack handy, but recall that the amount of anti-caking agent in Table Salt worked out at about a teaspoonful per ton of salt. Way less than 1%, about 1/200th of 1%.
And for salt, the anti-caking agent, and its concentration, has to be declared.



ADDED - the only odd thing on the Fondant Icing Sugar packet is the rather strange "may contain egg" ...

 

[drstitson]

"the only odd thing on the Fondant Icing Sugar packet is the rather strange "may contain egg""

yes - once you've made your royal icing!

 

[Finman]

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Pour 65% sugar syrup into combs. Use at least 5 kg sugar.

But first look if they have enough capped stores. Don't feed if they have.

 

[mrbees2]

It is very easy to mix to the right consistency, and there is plenty for me, (2hives). think the box cost just over a pound. There is no anti caking agent in it - although there is in the normal icing sugar. Will give this a go anyway. For someone like me who only has two hives I think this is probably quite cost and time effective. Cost more than a pound when I made my own, had to buy glucose as well. took ages , and was never quite right.

 

[drstitson]

OP - i know you have a box of icing sugar to hand but that won't make much fondant ie only tinkering.
cheapest sugar is granulated. and bought fondant doesn't represent too much of a premium given the trials and tribulations of mixing up 12.5kg yourself.