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Hi,
I’ve just bought what I thought was regular icing sugar but it has dried glucose syrup added to it. My question is can I use it like I would normal icing sugar? And what exactly does glucose syrup do to the icing?
Thanks

Hello ev973

What you’ve got is fondant icing, not to be confused with sugarpaste which is referred to as fondant in other countries.
Here’s some information, hope it helps.
http://www.silverspoon.co.uk/products/decorating/icing-sugars/fondant-icing-sugar

Apologies ev973, I didn’t answer the second part of your question. I suppose you could use it in the normal way when making butter cream but it will harden which is not what you want. Fondant icing is for pouring over cookies, cupcakes, tart and other sweet fare. It pours on and leaves a glossy hardened surface which is still soft enough to eat unlike royal icing whicn becomes very hard and brittle. The glucose in the fondant prevents it becoming rock hard! Hope this is a fuller answer. x

Hi madeitwithlove,

Thank you for your answers. I appreciate it. I made Nicholas Lodge’s sugar paste recipe this morning and thought it looked a little strange!

If fondant icing is good for cookies, is it a good alternative for icing cookies using the flooding technique or is it too soft?

Thanks again

Only if you want the icing to stay soft. In flooding technique for cookies with royal icing, the icing hardens and can be handled without causing damage to your item. Fondant icing will stay soft and dent. You can use it on small sponge fondant fancies. It can be coloured and flavoured.

Ok pity but thanks so much for the info.