I’ve been messing around with gels, gumpastes, and other recipes recently.
I came up with this recipe for an unbreakable gel that doesn’t end up drying out and being too brittle even after a week of drying.
I adapted it for cake lace, too, it’s basically the same thing but with less water in it. You can see how that works here: Cake Lace
This would be really good to use for things like guitar strings and animal whiskers.
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It does dry with a kind of yellowish tint to it like normal unbreakable gel, but it sets up into a rubbery texture after a day or so, then continues to dry out.
It also doesn’t seem to shrink as much as normal unbreakable gels that I’ve used before.
It ends up being like a flexible plastic after a week or so, it’s really weird.
Unbreakable gel recipe
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Marshmallow fluff
- 1 tsp Tylose
- 1/4 cup Boiling water
Instructions
- Put the fluff and the tylose in a dish and stir it with a fork.
- Add the water in 1 Tbsp at a time and mix it so that it all combines evenly.
- When it gets to a piping consistency that you’re comfortable with, pipe it into the shapes that you want, using waxed paper that’s been coated with a thin layer of crisco.
- Let it set up for a day before you mess with it. It won’t look like it will dry out, but after a day or so it will be like a stringy rubber, and it will just continue to firm up.
Notes
Shop for materials to make wafer paper flowers on Amazon:
- Wafer paper, white or colored
- Silicone flower center molds
- Petal veiners
- Petal dust
- Floral wire
- Tylose glue
- Fluffy paintbrushes
- Flower former
- Craft scissors
- Liquid Food Coloring
- Food-grade glycerin to make wafer paper conditioner
- Corn starch
- Flower paper punches
- Steamer to shape wafer paper
