GUM PASTE | Beautiful recipe for cake decorations | Step by Step tutorial |

Gum paste is a dough made from confectioners/icing sugar, gelatin, water, glucose, vegetable oil, and Tragacanth or CMC or Tylose powder. Gum paste is easy to work with to make sugar flowers, leaves and other small objects used to decorate cakes.

Gum paste recipe:

1000 g Powdered sugar
2 Tbsp Tylose powder
1/2 c Cold water
2 Tbsp Gelatin powder
2 Tbsp Glucose
1 tsp Flavoring
1 tsp Canola oil
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When working with gum paste, make sure to use it immediately. If you are not in the process of using it immediately, keep the gum paste wrapped tightly in plastic so the air cannot get to it. Gum paste hardens quickly.

If your paste is too hard to work with, knead it with your hands, and the heat from your hands should make it soft and pliable. If it is still hard, try putting it in the microwave for only five seconds at a time, take it out quickly, and try to knead it again. If it is still too hard, put it in for another five seconds and so on until it is soft enough to knead.

Warning: if heated in a microwave, the gum paste may get very hot in the middle, so be very careful it doesn’t burn you. Remember, it is mainly sugar, and if left in for too long, it could burn and become unusable.

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