When it come to covering a cake, is the Sugarpaste the same used for making flowers? it will get hard after a few hours on the cake?

Good Question
Were you covering the cake with fondant? Didn't know sugarpaste was used to cover cakes? Will be interested to see what others say!

Got intrigued by your question and looked it up in one of my books....
In the "Essential Guide to Cake Decorating", in the description of "sugarpaste" it states that it is also known as "rolled fondant".
Hope this helped

Thanks mjs4492 ,
your answers are very helpful to me, thanks one more time

It depends where you are in the world.

In the UK
Flowerpaste or petal paste is used for making flowers
Sugarpaste (also known as ready to roll icing) is used for covering cakes
Fondant is also used for covering cakes but it's not very widely available. It has to be melted with sugar syrup and poured over a cake.

yes as missbaritone says, flowerpaste for making flowers as this sets very hard, which is needed to hold the petal shape.
Sugarpaste for covering cakes, sets with more like a firmish crust but is much softer for eating. I actually thought sugarpaste was also known as fondant.
Flowerpaste as with sugarpaste can be bought in packets ready to use, but can also be bought in powdered form just to mix water with and make your own.
cheers
Jan

Janbabe, you're right. In Australia, as in the UK, sugarpaste is what you cover cakes with and it's exactly the same as what Americans call fondant. I think what has traditionally been called fondant in the UK is runny and drizzled or poured over a cake - not like a paste at all.

And what we (UK and Australia) call flowerpaste is what Americans call gumpaste - it sets hard.

Regards,
Cris.

We call sugar paste fondant, or atleast I do. The runny kind we or I call poured fondant.