Gumpaste Vs. Fondant
Decorating By amandasweetcakes Updated 31 Jul 2005 , 12:27pm by amandasweetcakes
Ok, this may be a really dumb question, but.... 
What is the difference between gumpaste and fondant???
When do you use one vs. the other??
Sorry, I've only been decorating for a couple of months, so I'm still learning!! 
Thanks.
I'm new at this too so someone might correct me. I use gumpaste for accents like flowers or anything I want to stay firm and harden. It gets crunchy.
Fondant is much softer and you can sculpt with it as it will firm up too after a few days or weeks depending on the thickness. Usually fondant is used to roll out and cover a cake.
Hope that helps!
Sugarpaste or rolled fondant is a cake covering. The outside dries hard while underneath remains soft.
Gumpaste is a moulding/modelling coumpound. It dries as hard as rock.
You can model with sugarpaste [it will be "softer"] but you cannot cover a cake with Gumpaste.
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