Cooking with Adam: The story of Peter and the fondant

Fondant is a confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. In its simplest form, it is sugar and water cooked to a point, specifically the soft-ball stage, cooled slightly, and stirred or beaten until it is an opaque mass of creamy consistency. Fondant is commonly used to decorate wedding cakes. This gives the cakes a smooth appearance.

They use A LOT of fondant on the Food Network show "Ace of Cakes." Recently, Peter became obsessed with this show and decided to make some fondant of his own. I was lucky enough to be there and witness this concoction.

Fondant is basically an entire box of confectioners sugar and corn syrup. It looks like bubble gum and tastes VERY sweet. We decided to dye our fondant "happy purple" (thats the name the food coloring box gives it.... 22 drops blue and 12 drops red). By the time we were done, it looked like a big blob of grape gum. Peter rolled it out and then put it on top of a cake and decorated it with royal icing flowers!

MMMMM....Fondant!