Aaarrgggh! My Gumpaste Turned Flannel Gray..........
Decorating By heavensgaits Updated 7 Apr 2007 , 10:04am by johannap_73
It was supposed to be lilac. I made gumpaste yesterday afternoon with Wiltons recipe and let it cure overnight and finished this evening. It was ivory colored, like I expected it to be. I added half a drop of violet gel color (americolor) and all of a sudden it turned flannel gray!!!!!!!!! I remembered someone saying that violet is made of pinks and blues, so I added a little pink, and then a tiny bit of blue. I mixed thoroughly between each color addition. I got close, but it still looked greyish color. I'm trying to make flowers for my friends wedding cake. It's already been a heck of a day. I strung 352 pearls to go around the edges of her tiers, that went ok. Then I tried to transfer a design to a set of drumsticks that I'm woodburning for her fiance who is a drummer, and the darn thing wouldn't transfer to the sticks using carbon paper. I though about making fondant drumsticks, but as large as I need them to be, there's just not enough time to dry before the wedding. My best friend suggested sanding the finish off the drumsticks where I need the design to transfer to and do it that way. Have to wait to go to her house tomorrow because I don't have any sandpaper. Next was the whole gumpaste ordeal. We've made most of the flowers out of fondant, but I just wanted to see what they would look like if I made them out of gumpaste. LOL, guess I won't get to find out now. At least not tonight because I've put everything away and am getting ready to go to bed. I give up for tonight. At least the pearls got done today. Thanks for letting me vent. Any ideas about what might have happened to the gumpaste would be appreciated.
It is too late to help much now, but you should have left it ivory, made the flowers and when dry either dusted them with super pearl or even just a white petal dust. That violet trick apparntly only works with icing, not fondant or gumpaste. About all you can do know is make the flowers, let them dry and then paint them white either by airbrushing them or mixing white petal dust and alcohol and painting each flower individually.
The only other thing you can do is make a new batch of gumpaste. Save this one for another use where you can cover the gray with brighter colored petal dust.
Thank you for the help Shirley. I was actually trying to get Lilac colored flowers. I still have some ivory gumpaste and will take your suggestion and make the flowers ivory and then use the violet petal dust that I have. Happy Birthday BTW!
i have found that with some of the gel colours that if i mixed colours that you would normally mix eg red and blue to get purple that with some of the gel brands you end up getting grey....beats me y but i too had grey gum paste and also the royal icing it too was grey....it must be some chemical thing.? who knows...
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