I want to make some fondant decorations like plaques and small figurines. Do I make them with gum paste alone or should I mix gum paste with fondant? I have used wilton's gum tex and mixed it with fondant (Half and half) and it was too dry and cracking and fragile. what went wrong?
Katy
im starting a cake tomarrow and i need to know if i can use just fondant b/c im on a TIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! budget like 150 at the most
You can color the gumpaste with colored fondant from wilton and that would give you the 50/50 mixture. But, whatever you choose to use is fine. Gumpaste dries faster. And doesn't stretch like fondant does. But 50/50 works really well.
As far as your gum tex/fondant mixture, the only thing I can think of is that it was to thin.
When I use gumtex in fondant, I only knead about a teaspoon of gumtex into about a cup of fondant. I can imagine how the half-and-half combo was too dry.
Prepared gumpaste will allow you to roll it out paper thin if needed without breaking, and it will dry much faster than fondant. If your figures and plaques are going to have very fine details, gumpaste will work best. But I think you'd be OK with using fondant with a little gumtex, or even kneading half prepared gumpaste and half fondant together.
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