Marshmallow Fondant Cupcakes

I planned to make some birthday cakes with fondant icing. Now most fondant cakes I've ever eaten, I've had to pull the fondant off and not eat it because it never tasted nice. After looking up recipes and reviews, I found 'marshmallow fondant'. Sounds like it would taste nice right? It does! You simply melt 250g of marshmallows with 2 tablespoons of water and then either knead it into 500g of icing sugar or as I did, you can use a mixer with a dough hook.

Once you have your marshmallow fondant kneaded well, you can split it up and add any food colouring you like. I split my fondant in half and left one white and kneaded two drops of my green in at a time until it became the light green that I wanted for my cupcakes. 

I wrapped them up in glad wrap twice and put them inside zip lock bags and then into an air tight container sitting in my pantry as I made them a couple days in advance. It's best to prepare at least the day before but you can make it and store it for a few weeks even.

Now I honestly thought the fondant was the hard part (it really wasn't) and that making the cupcakes would be easy as. I made the same recipe I always make (you can find it here) but I put them in different cupcake papers. I don't know if the different cupcake papers were the problem or the weather but the night after I had made them, the papers were completely unattached except for two. I tried lots of things to try fix them but I ended up putting them in new papers. Still looks a bit weird but it was the best I could do.

Here's the fun part, making flowers out of fondant. I used a sponge, modelling tools and daisy plunger cutters.

Just roll out the fondant, use the daisy cutter and wiggle it around, rub it on your hand to remove excess and then plunge the fondant out onto your sponge. Next you take the round ball tool and press it into the center of the flower, this will make it curve upwards. Allow to harden.

Then I just rolled my fondant out and cut circles out for the tops of my cupcakes. You can put a little bit of water on the back of them and place directly onto the cupcakes and smooth out to reach the edges or instead of the water you can make some buttercream icing and dab abit on top of the cupcakes (don't put too much or close to the edge or it will just push out and make a mess).

I drew a diamond shape pattern on some of the circles before placing onto the cupcakes.

I then used a tube of white chocolate royal icing as 'glue' to attach and piece the flowers together and also some soft silver edible balls. Here's some photos of how they all turned out.

Hope this inspires someone else to give it a try! I have had no previous experience with fondant.

xx