Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- 10 oz white fondant (I like using homemade marshmallow fondant)
- Gel food coloring (I like Americolor brand)
- Powdered sugar
- corn syrup
Instruction
- Dust your work surface with powdered sugar. If you have plastic food-safe gloves, now is a good time to wear them, so that your hands won't get food coloring on them.
- Divide the fondant into 6 pieces. Press one piece into a disc, and put a few drops of yellow gel food coloring in the center. Fold the sides over the coloring, so you have a fondant ball, and knead it between your hands. Soon you'll start seeing streaks of color come through the fondant. Continue to knead until the fondant is a uniform color. Add more food coloring if necessary, until you get a bright yellow. If at any time the fondant gets too sticky, dust your hands with powdered sugar. Repeat with the rest of the fondant balls until you have 6 rainbow colors.
- Roll out the purple fondant until it is a long strip a little thicker than 1/4-inch. Cut it into a 1/2-inch long strip. Place a round cookie cutter or glass a baking sheet covered with waxed paper and dusted with powdered sugar. Wrap the purple fondant around the cutter, using it as a guide to make the center of the rainbow round.
- Repeat the process with the blue fondant, cutting out a 1/2-inch strip. Paint the side of the purple strip with a little corn syrup, and press the blue fondant into it to make them stick together. Continue to assemble the rainbow this way, sticking each color together with a thin layer of corn syrup.
- When you finish the rainbow, remove the cutter and trim the bottom so that it's a clean, straight line. Let the fondant rainbow sit for at least 2-3 days, until it is sturdy and firm. Flip it after the first day so that the bottom has a chance to dry out too. The fondant rainbow can be made weeks or even months in advance.
