I did a cake with a ton of gumpaste raspberries on it last week, and someone asked if I used a mold. Heck yes I did, that would have been waaaaay too time-consuming otherwise! Here’s a video on how to get the raspberries in and out of the mold: Here’s a link to the molds: Raspberry […]
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I had a decorator send me a photo of a cake that had a little garland on it, and she wanted to know what it was made of, and to me it looked like gumpaste. It’s simple to make a gumpaste string of pennants, you just need a little sugar clay and some printed wafer paper.
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One of the simplest edible glues to use if you’re working with fondant or gumpaste is to use that same fondant or gumpaste. It will match the colors, and the sugar in the fondant will stick to itself pretty well. How to make edible fondant or gumpaste glue. You’re basically going to dissolve some of
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How to make easy stamens for gumpaste flowers in cake decorating. Two simple methods that even cake decorating beginners can use to make nice-looking stamens for sugar flowers for wedding cakes or birthday cakes. These methods use things that you probably have around your house, without special equipment.
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Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: How To make a gumpaste pinch flower or pulled flowers. Step by Step Tutorial for making sugarpaste filler flowers. Small filler flowers are a good edible flower on floral wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste
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There are many ways to color leaves…If you want to make some that have veins that are a different color than the leaf itself, you usually have to paint them. One way to do it quickly is to use wet leaves and apply another color to them before they dry. Making the two-colored leaves. To color
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For this cake that had gumpaste branches and red berries on it, I used a mold to give the branches realistic bumps where the buds would be. Using a silicone mold for branches. The difficult part is getting them thin enough that they don’t look too ragged, but also making sure they’re not too thin,
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I’ve had the Patterned Pastes book by Geraldine Dahlke for quite a while, and I never really had a reason to use it. But it was always interesting, and since I recently started looking at polymer clays the techniques in patterning fondant and gumpaste came to mind. When you work with clay it obviously behaves differently than
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Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: How To Make Succulents Step by Step Tutorial for making polymer clay or gum paste succulents. These are a good filler flower or focal flower on wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste
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Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: How To make an unwired gumpaste calla lily. Step by Step Tutorial for making sugarpaste callas. Calla lilies are a good focal flower on floral wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste
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