Food Grade Mold Recipe

This feels & acts like silicone! Quick & easy to make, cheap too! Have fun with it, I am!

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Comment by Bonnie Willey on January 27, 2014 at 11:55pm: SO SAD... the mineral oil did not work. The rest of the mix beaded up into all these very little balls and sank to the bottom of the bowl. I reheated it, but it still would not incorporate. So finally I poured the mineral oil off the top of the mix, added some warm veg. glycerin, stirred that in, and immediately it came together, mixed up just fine, and was usable, so I did not lose the gelatin mixture after all.

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on January 27, 2014 at 2:54pm: cant wait to see ; )

Comment by Bonnie Willey on January 27, 2014 at 2:38pm: I am going to make a batch with the mineral oil for June's test project, forgot to do it yesterday when I made these.

Comment by Bonnie Willey on January 27, 2014 at 2:37pm: Thank You!!

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on January 27, 2014 at 2:30pm: wow , awesome job

Comment by Bonnie Willey on January 27, 2014 at 2:25pm: Also, my original mold, 4 months old now, is still hanging in there, and shows no sign of decay in any way. I have found that the softness, pliability, of the molds, feels better when they are kept in containers rather than left out to dry and harden some. I am now keeping my containers/plastic tubs in the frig in the basement. I do have several broach/pin molds that I intend to keep for reuse. I am definitely keeping the ones I posted on Jan. 10th.

Comment by Bonnie Willey on January 27, 2014 at 2:25pm: Hi everyone,

I finally used one of the nice big pieces of lace applique that I bought online.

I cut one, of the two that I had, into 4 major pieces, and will be working with the bottom section today.

This is a full size turntable like you would use on a pantry shelf for cans & such. I used cardboard strips to contain the mold mix so the mold would not be larger than was necessary.  But , as you can see, it filled the whole thing!

I pasted the lace applique unto a piece of cutout cardboard to give it some depth, it was not very thick on it's own.  AND, we have very good detail as a result! This thing turned out to be 6" wide & 9" high! I will never be doing a cake that will take this, so I will definitely be melting this one down for reuse. I am going to cut the applique into smaller pieces & work them into a pattern that will be approx. 4" high so it will wrap around a cake. That will be something I might be able to use. lol

I am very pleased with how it turned out. It has been treated with pearl luster dust to bring out the detail a little better. So to answer an earlier question...yes, this mold recipe can be used to make a form for lace. I did not use cornstarch or spray on the mold, I just pressed the gumpaste, had no fondant available just now, into the mold, removing the excess around the edges for better definition, let it set about 5 minutes, then placed it gumpaste side down & removed the mold by peeling it up & back.

Comment by Bonnie Willey on January 10, 2014 at 4:19pm: When I poured this second mold, at the bottom, I sprayed the pin, gumpaste, & container lightly first. You can see a difference in the appearance of the 2 molds. I believe the detail is a little better also, so this is something to keep in mind. I filled them both in layers so I could push the gumpaste into the crevices defining the underside of the top petals, then another layer to finish off the bottom layer of petals/pearls. I let them set for a few minutes only before releasing carefully from the mold. Next time I will let them harden some to see if they will keep definition better, without breaking. Go back & clean up between the bottom petals as needed. I also used the original recipe, with the glucose/corn syrup this time.

Comment by Bonnie Willey on January 10, 2014 at 2:50pm: Making broach molds again.

I filled the center of the broach with gumpaste so the mold mix would not get deep into it, would be too hard to get the pin out that way. Then I filled the bottom of the container, on the right, with gumpaste to push the broach protrusions down into, that gave it a flat surface to pour the mix on. As you can see, this worked fine, the bottom of the broach did not get any mold mix under it. I just love these disposable food containers, this one came with gravy in it from KFC. The sq. one had potato salad from the grocery store. lol But I do use them over & over again.

The broach had a lot of definition that was picked up by the mold quite nicely, well defined.

Here is the gumpaste broach with pearl dust on it.

This smaller pin was prepared the same way. The stick pin part on the back was pushed down into a layer of gumpaste already in the bottom of the container, so when it was poured, it would come out flat on the bottom, just like the larger one did.

Here I have painted the edges of the larger pin with an edible silver glaze, all that I had available just now. Waiting for my silver luster dust to arrive. Then I painted the smaller pin with it & sprinkled on some cupcake gems in shimmer silver, also in place of the desired luster dust. Bur it was fun! These will go on a cake I am doing to surprise an old friend. The one that said that she had heard that I made a pretty descent tasting fondant! Then I put the pins back into the fondant bases in the containers so I can make some more molds to give to a few friends to use. There were no issues with pouring the hot mold mix over the gumpaste base, no melting, & it released easily with (the smaller one), & without (the larger one), being sprayed lightly first. I was able to get very good detail, definition, with both of these molds.

Now I have a way of using the poured method, even when the botton of the object is not flat, and will not need to suspend the object any more. Hope this answered a few more questions...and have fun!