Candies made by enrobing chocolate over flavored fondant
cream are quite popular. Candy fondant cream is usually a mixture
of fondant sugar base, meringue mix, and flavoring. A typical
fondant base contains sucrose, water, corn syrup, and palm oil. It is
cooked approximately 45 min at 130 C then cooled to approximately
27 C to obtain proper sugar crystallization. The fondant
sugar base is then reheated to approximately 65e70 C in preparation
for mixing in the remaining ingredients. A meringue mix
(corn syrup, sugar, water, and dried egg whites) at 55e65 C and
peanut butter at 21 C are added to the sugar fondant base. The
three ingredients are mixed for approximately 10e20 min between
60 and 65 C. Once thoroughly mixed, the flavored fondant cream is
cooled to 30e32 C and stored at room temperature for later
portioning and chocolate enrobing. The resulting peanut butter
flavored fondant cream has an approximate pH 6.4e6.8