If Instructions Call For Gumpaste, Can I Substitute Fondant?
Decorating By justfrosting Updated 1 Oct 2006 , 11:53pm by AMW
It depends what you're trying to do... Covering a cake - NO! Gumpaste when dry is much more hard / brittle than fondant. But if your making bows or flowers or something like that - you can use either or.
I am needing to make the base for larry the cucumber (posted by Natalia).
I can also use a styro ball...
Gumpaste is much stronger and can be rolled much thinner than fondant. Sometimes they are interchangeable but your end product will look different. If I was doing a base, it would be gumpaste. Fondant will take weeks to dry for it to be strong enough for a base. You can add gum trag or tylose to fondant to get a much stronger fondant- or "quick gum paste".
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