This maybe a dumb question but... why do some people use gumpaste instead of fondant for making flowers and such????

gumpaste has more elasticity so can be rolled really thin if needed and it has a much faster drying time!!!

HTH

Thank you Trudi!!!

Thank you! I had the same question!!

yeah, but you can eat the fondant decorations, gumpaste decos need picked off due to no one wanting to bite into them. I love to use gumpaste but someone once said...I want to be able to cut into a cake and be able to eat everything....boy was that a bummer...

I have seen a lot of cakes say they are made of all fondant and seem to be mostly 3 D. Are they adding something to the fondant that makes it work like gumpaste?

fondant does harden and you can add tylose into it to make it harden more.. you can also use 50/50 fondant and gumpaste.

some ppl refer to gumpaste/ sugarpaste as fondant...depending where you come from.

my kids love eating gumpaste...!!!!

I am in the states, Kentucky that is. I have tried to use mm fondant for some 3 D figures and they seem fairly heavy.... any advise?

I too find fondant to be too heavy when making bigger pieces like couch. The results tend to flatten out instead of drying hard.