How to use gum paste

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Gum Paste Flowers are beautiful. Here is your step-by-step guide to making gum paste flowers for your cake decor.

There are a lot of recipes for gumpaste, but I used a mix of a few to get the best result. These are a few recipes for gumpaste (also known as sugarpaste) that you can make at home, plus tips on adjusting the formula to get the best gumpaste for how you like to work with it.

Easy, homemade gum paste to use for cake decorating and figure making.

Learning how to make gumpaste need not be difficult. If you search “gumpaste recipe” in Google, your search will lead to several recipes which are already using only eggwhites, powdered…

Every chef has a trick up her sleeve to make difficult tasks easier, and for pastry chefs, that trick is tylose powder. Tylose powder is used as a binding agent with fondant to make gumpaste, and you can combine it with powdered sugar to use as a paste for edible flowers. It can also be used to ...

I had heard of gum paste before, but wasn't sure what you use it for. I now know that you can use it to sculpt figurines and flowers for cakes with or without fondant. I also learned you can use it to make your own mints! After finding the recipe for these Homemade Breath Mints, I also found a recipe for homemade gum paste instead of having to use the store bought kind. I already had all the ingredients to make it homemade, so rather than spend the money, I decided to try it. It was really…

I don't work with gum paste very often, but when I need to make gum paste figures or simple flowers I make the gum paste from scratch using this recipe: Gum paste Recipe

Hey everyone, so in addition to the How to make fondant and butter cream we have this segment titled: How to make Gum-Paste. Now recently I was at a friends house, helping her make a cake and she was using gum paste for some detailed pieces, well me...