the difference?

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Permalink Reply by Teresita (Terry) Hernandez on August 26, 2010 at 6:54pm

Gumpaste contains ingredients that make it dry faster and harder and is used for flowers and decorations. Fondant is used mostly for covering cakes as it takes longer to dry.

Permalink Reply by Heather Bradford on August 26, 2010 at 8:11pm

i'm using fondant to make flowers and drapes etc. wouldthe techniques and suc be the same?

Permalink Reply by Ruth Cropper on August 26, 2010 at 8:25pm

Heather,
You can use fondant to make flowers and drapes, but there are times when you want to use gumpaste for a quicker drying flower, topper, etc. Sometimes I mix my fondant and gumpaste half and half when I want it to dry really hard and faster. Fondant by ifself does not harden like it does when it has gumpaste in it. The techniques are the same, just an added ingredient to get a different and sometimes better result.

Permalink Reply by Gigi on September 2, 2010 at 7:24pm

I've been using gumpaste to make flowers..I recently experimented with modeling figures..mixing the fondant with the gumpaste is the best..I like the airy-ness of the mix..much easier to mold..also read that if you mix tylose to fondant you have gumpaste...

Permalink Reply by Heather Bradford on September 2, 2010 at 7:31pm

my issue is i don't even know where to get tylose or how to turn fondant into gumpaste.
i'm in australia and there are a lot of things there in the US we don't have here, and even more so in my neck of australia being the tiny island at the bottom known as tasmania

Permalink Reply by Gigi on September 2, 2010 at 7:40pm

I purchase tylose from ebay..it was one-third the price then my local cake store..I ended up with three for what I would have paid in the cake decorating store..I don't remember what the measurement is..how much fondant to how much tylose..maybe someone else can help..if not I'll try to find the info and post later.

Permalink Reply by Heather Bradford on September 2, 2010 at 7:45pm

thank you