Gumpaste Basics - What Is The Best Way To Start?
Decorating By mazaryk Updated 4 Aug 2007 , 1:17am by mazaryk
I have been cake decorating for 3 years and have never worked with gumpaste before. I would like advice on what is the best way to start. Should I start with self-teaching or take a wilton gumpaste class? Also, any advice is greatly appreciated on what to watchout for when starting to work with gumpaste.
Thanks-in-advance
Wilton has a new course called "Fondant and Gum Paste". It is a very basic class and moves at a very relaxed pace. For those that have no knowledge of Gum Paste it is a great start.
I just completed the course last night. If you have little or no experience with fondant and gumpaste it's a good way to learn. If you've completed all three Wilton courses you will find some of lessons are repetitious of some of Course 3. Wilton only requires that you have completed Course 1 to take this class. If that's as far as you've gotten everything is new. Personal opinion is I'd rather have a course based entirely on learning techniques for fondant/gumpaste flowers with the requirement being you have completed all three Wilton courses. Even so, I enjoyed the class. It's always fun to meet new people and share info and ideas!
Classes are a good way to start, you know what the feel of the gumpaste should be plus you meet other people.
Personal opinion is I'd rather have a course based entirely on learning techniques for fondant/gumpaste flowers with the requirement being you have completed all three Wilton courses. Even so, I enjoyed the class. It's always fun to meet new people and share info and ideas!
I hear you on this one. It's rather annoying when people skip the other levels, don't have a clue then slows the class down asking questions that were covered in the other classes. When I took the class I had 2 people in my class that did that and I felt it was a waste of my money.
I'm self taught. If you haven't seen my work you might want to take a peek in my album because all of my cakes have GP flowers. I just started with the Wilton starter kit, then worked my way up to some really good GP books from England. Then it snowballed and I probably own half of all the GP tools made.LOL. It's really not very hard, just time consuming. Good luck. You love it.
P.S. I love the Nick Lodge recipe. Makes a great GP.
Thank-you all for the advice. I have taken all 3 Wilton courses so I think I will take the new course and buy the starter kit to work on at home if a course doesn't start right away. I really am inspired by all the great gum paste work I see on this site.
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