Preparing Fondant for Lemon Mousse

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we'll prepare some decorations to complement our lemon mousse. Mint leaves are a nice complement to a lemon mousse. I'm also going to prepare some little purple flowers out of sugar paste or a fondant. So I'll give you a quick lesson on how to use the fondant. The fondant you can buy in any place that sells cake decorating supplies and it comes like this, it looks like a dough, it looks an awful like a marzipan, but it's sugar paste. So when you get it, it's kind of crumbly and it soft but it's still a little crumbly and hard and you want to soften it. So first you take a little margarine or shortening and you grease your hands and then you kneed the fondant until it's very smooth and just roll it and fold it between your hands until it feels very smooth. Now, when you get to a smooth consistency, we'll add a little bit of food coloring and the best food coloring to use is the paste type. So I'll show you that. Okay, now that's pretty smooth now, a lot nicer than it was. Take a toothpick and just dip the toothpick into your food coloring. I'm using the purple and just rub that onto the sugar paste just like that. Then continuing to kneed it, folding it into itself and then rolling and folding until the color is uniform."