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I just enroll in online course today. I watched one out of the tutorial classes but I will like to ask best way to make sugar past and how to colour it because am a started if I may say. Another thing is , I saw Paul adding a powder like ingredient to the sugar paste before molding the duck. What is the name of the ingredient. And what it purpose?
I just enroll in online course today. I watched one out of the tutorial classes but I will like to ask best way to make sugar past and how to colour it because am a started if I may say. Another thing is , I saw Paul adding a powder like ingredient to the sugar paste before molding the duck. What is the name of the ingredient. And what it purpose?
Most people buy their sugarpaste ready made. You can get many different colours or colour the white to whatever shade you need with paste or gel colours.
I haven’t seen the duck tutorial but I presume he added Gum traganth, CMC powder or Tylo powder which stiffens the sugarpaste up, making it more like flower paste. It also dries out harder than plain sugarpaste.
Good luck with your decorating – I’ve found these tutorials invaluable and I’ve learned so much!!
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Hello 36991
Welcome to this wonderful site!
There are lots of different ways of making sugarpaste from scratch, you’ll find some recipes here if you’d like to have a go:
To make gum paste paste/flower paste here:
However, as Ali244 says, most people buy ready made sugarpaste because it’s so much more convenient, particularly if large amounts is required. The are many brands and colours available. Cake decorators have their own preferences of brands depending on the project they are making. Some brands are specialised for certain climate conditions and can be extremely expensive. It’s best to buy small amounts until you find a paste which suits you best. Some of the supermarket own brands are also good and inexpensive.
For large amounts of coloured sugar paste it can be less challenging to just buy the colour required or use the method here to colour your own white paste:
By typing ‘sugar paste’ in the above search box you’ll find lots of other references to sugarpaste with regard to brand recommendations from members, how to colour, typical problems to expect and basically any other questions you may have.
Hope some of this information is useful. Happy baking and decorating, enjoy yourself and keep posting your questions! x
