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What is difference between sugarpaste and flourpaste

Hello Davisr

Sugar paste is roll out icing used for covering cakes and made from icing sugar, water, glycerine, glucose and gelatine mixed together to form a pliable dough. Flower paste is similarly made but is strengthened with gum tragacanth, a natural edible substance which enables the paste when rolled out to stiffen and hold it’s shape. It can be rolled out very thinly to emulate delicate flower petals. If you put in the search box ‘how to make sugar paste from scratch’ you see lots of different answers to give you a better idea. And if you put ‘clark baxter’ in the search box you’ll see two different questions, both of which are relevant to your question. Hope this helps.