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Can anyone tell me about gumpaste flowers? Do they look real? taste good?

Can anyone tell me about gumpaste flowers? Do they look real? taste good?

Where can I find different colors and quantity of rolled fondant in San Gabriel Valley to Pasadena area? Does anyone know if it’s better to make letters and squares with fondant or gumpaste? The latter is so much cheaper.

I have a couple of websites you can look at. Hopefully there is something there that you’ll like. www.caketop.ca has an amazing array of gumpaste flowers www.goldaskitchen.com has a lot of traditional cake decorating supplies...

on fondant and gumpaste elements at least a week ahead of time, so that they have enough time to dry. Plan to have everything done the night before the party. It will stay fresh under the fondant, don’t worry. You...

This will work. It would also work to roll out gumpaste very thin, and cut it with your cookie cutter, and then dry them on a bent cardboard to be “flying”. You could finish decorating wtih piped royal icing or...

, but delicious, mess. The peanut butter stayed nicely in the middle for a more intense peanut butter surprise. I iced the cupcakes with honey buttercream, and topped with a tiny gumpaste bumblebee—see...

divine as a gift. The flowers that I got were gumpaste and looked really quite realistic. Highy recommended

and the decorations (I’m not sure if you’re using sprinkles, sanding sugar, fondant, gumpaste, etc) might be ill affected. If, for instance, you’re using red sprinkles, the color could run. Fondant and gumpaste...

. You certainly could make edible ones out of gumpaste and luster dust, but they wouldn’t be translucent like those. Use the wondermold for the skirt part of the cake. If you’re using a bratz or Barbie doll (as...

than a buttercream frosting. You can make fondant or gumpaste decorations and for travel, place them on toothpicks wedged into a foam block, then stabilize the block in the car...perhaps in a box and then strap the box win with a...

talented with current cake decorating techniques/ styles? (gumpaste, fondant, modern designs) As a cake decorator born and raised in this city (currently living out of town) I was shocked when I sat back to think of wedding cake...

Glucose can be found at cake and candy making supply stores, since it is used in making gumpaste. I bought mine at Surfas Restaurant Supply in Culver City, CA. It is a Wilton product, so Wilton’s website probably lists it...

, there was a tiny dab of ganache, the frosting, and a fondant or gumpaste doodad on top. The little top was cute but tasteless. For a given quantity of batter, I would guess it takes about four times as long to fill the minis....