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What to Ask Clients to Get Sugar Flowers and Cakes Just Right
When making a cake for yourself, you will choose what type of cake and what decorations you prefer. If you are making one as a present for a friend or a family member you may ask what type of cake they prefer and if they have a preference as to what color it should be
The Easiest Rolled Fondant Icing Recipe
There are many uses for rolled fondant as well as using it to cover a cake. For example, you can use it to make simple flowers, cut-out designs, models, bows, and drapes, and they will all be soft enough to cut and eat with the cake. Rolling fondant is mainly used as the covering for
5 Reasons to Make Sugar Gum Paste Flowers
The delicate sugar flowers that decorate many of today’s celebration cakes are called gum paste flowers because they are made from confectioner’s/powdered sugar that has been mixed with several ingredients, including edible gum. It’s made into a paste that has an elastic quality, which can be rolled very thinly then shaped easily by hand and
Should I use Gum Tragacanth, CMC Tylose or GumTex?
Gum paste sugar flowers are made from a sugar paste that includes an ingredient that makes it flexible. You can then roll and stretch the paste to make life-like flowers and leaves that, after a few hours, will dry to a porcelain-like hardness. There are three gums available for making sugar gum paste. Two
