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How to Make Your Own Marzipan to Cover Your Rich Fruit Cake
You can buy it ready-made in most cake supply shops or supermarkets but I have had little success with factory-made marzipan. I find that it has usually dried out slightly in its packaging or it’s oily, making it difficult to work with and getting it to roll smoothly is difficult. I don’t like the fact
Simple Homemade Gum Paste Recipe for Sugar Flower Making
I know it’s easy to shop online or go to your local cake supplier to buy ready-made Gum Paste, but it’s expensive, and I have not been satisfied with the quality of any commercially made paste I’ve tried. With prices of all the cake making and decorating ingredients going up all the time, I’m sure
My Rich Fruit Christmas Cake Recipe That Really Works
For many years I used a traditional English fruit cake recipe for my Christmas cakes. I used the usual ‘cake’ ingredients such as butter, sugar, eggs, and flour, to which I added a mixture of dried and crystalized fruit such as sultanas, raisins, currants, glace cherries, and mixed citrus peel. Raisins are quite expensive, so
Difference Between Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar for Cake Decorating
When you do a lot of cake baking and decorating, you usually find that some ingredients work better than others, and once you find the ones that work best for you, then you will tend to stick with them as long as they are available. Sugar is no exception, and professional pastry chefs will tell
How to Choose the Best Royal Icing Recipe for Cakes or Projects
One of the most versatile products used for cake decorating is Royal Icing, whether it sets hard or is a softer version. It’s made from Icing/confectioners sugar and egg whites and can be used, for example, to cover a cake, to create designs on cookies, for piping designs as decorations or to pipe flowers and
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 are
