Okay, I'm a teacher and I'm bored so I've been spending my vacation doing cakes. I've decided to teach myself the gum paste since there are no classes that I can find around this area sooooo....
Here is a couple of tips that I have figured out
1) CORN STARCH!!! give a healthy dusting to the foam pad and you'll have to keep loading it up every few petals. Brush it into the pad and it keeps the gum paste from sticking but also it dries it out slightly so that it holds shape when you put it together.
2) PRESS N' SEAL instead of saran wrap. Allows you to cut out a bunch of petals and keep them fresh and you keep going back in for more. What I do is grease the table with a little crisco, roll out the paste and then put it onto the press n seal and do a final roll over to make it thinner than I could pick up off the table. Then it is easy to remove the petals. Before I couldn't scrape them up off hte table without maiming them!
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