How To Do Gumpaste Letters Tutorial!!!!
Decorating By tonedna Updated 1 Dec 2008 , 2:21pm by tonedna
Edna - you are the best! When are you coming out with your own DVD?
Omg!! Edna, How do you make everything so easy ! Mine always stick to the tappits . Then I get mad and give up LOL!!! Thanks so much! I was on the Wilton site and someone had posted that you had this youtube out !!! I was like WHAT !!! I have been waiting and didnt get a notice from anywhere !! Its so great to see it work right. I just wonder though being gumpaste do people just pick off the lettering then before they eat the cake ? Do you tell them not to eat it ?? It has to be so hard?
Omg!! Edna, How do you make everything so easy ! Mine always stick to the tappits . Then I get mad and give up LOL!!! Thanks so much! I was on the Wilton site and someone had posted that you had this youtube out !!! I was like WHAT !!! I have been waiting and didnt get a notice from anywhere !! Its so great to see it work right. I just wonder though being gumpaste do people just pick off the lettering then before they eat the cake ? Do you tell them not to eat it ?? It has to be so hard?
Since they are small pieces they really dont make a difference. Gumpaste is edible, but it just doesnt have that much taste. I dont really worry about it.
I couldn't post it here cause CC is beem offline for me for days. So I been waiting.Im glad you liked it!
Edna 
Thanks Edna dear! I didnt mean you, I meant the youtube. I am subscribed and I never get a notice when you add a new one ! I still havent had one about it ? Thanks for the reply!
Great Tutorial Edna..I too have had problems!! Where did you get the funky letter tappit?? I have the blue FMM ones but have never seen a white funky lettering one.
Laurel
Wow...I enjoyed that tutorial. I needed that b/c I can never get my lettering perfect and I think I may prepare "Happy Birthday" lettering in advance and store it. This way I can just pull it out when I get orders. 
You are the best!
Thank you for all of your tutorials. I love watching all your tips and techniques 
My DD and I love to watch them together. As we were watching this one all she could talk about was how pretty your shirt was, and that she wants one too 
Thanks Edna dear! I didnt mean you, I meant the youtube. I am subscribed and I never get a notice when you add a new one ! I still havent had one about it ? Thanks for the reply!
If you add me as your friend in Youtube I usually send and email when I post a new one. But I think it only goes to the people in my friend list, not to the subscribers. The subscribers only know when they open Youtube and see whats been added to their subscriptions I never receive emails from my subscriptions
Edna
I have a horrible time getting my fondant out of my tappits (I have all of them), but I haven't tried them with gumpaste. I roll the fondant out really thin, let it sit for awhile and they still won't come out. Do you think it is the Crisco that keeps yours down or is it because it is gumpaste? I'm not giving up - I spent too much money on the five sets of tappits!!
Thanks for the tutorial. It is a huge help!
I have a horrible time getting my fondant out of my tappits (I have all of them), but I haven't tried them with gumpaste. I roll the fondant out really thin, let it sit for awhile and they still won't come out. Do you think it is the Crisco that keeps yours down or is it because it is gumpaste? I'm not giving up - I spent too much money on the five sets of tappits!!
Thanks for the tutorial. It is a huge help!
The gumpaste helps and its need to be thin. The crisco helps sticking to the board. But don't use a lot either cause is difficult to move them. Although eventually they dry. You can put some crisco on the tappits too. Remember just a little bit!
Edna
Great Tutorial Edna..I too have had problems!! Where did you get the funky letter tappit?? I have the blue FMM ones but have never seen a white funky lettering one.
Laurel
I think they have them in Globalsugarart.com
Edna
is jem cutters and tappits the same thing?
i have jem cutters and have had a terrible time getting my gumpaste out.
i will check out your you tube video.
thank-you!!!!
Jem cutters can be work the same way..anything that is small and intricate can be done this way.
Edna
Thanks Edna for yet another great teaching video...you're so generous with your time and talent.
I have a question about the gumpaste...you said that you ?don't? add Tylose...I thought that gumpaste was just fondant with Tylose added, have I been wrong all this time 
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Thanks for the help.
Gumpaste and fondant are 2 different things. You can add tylose to fondant to make it a bit stronger like gumpaste, yet the feel is a bit different still. But it does work. You can find different
recipes for gumpaste. One of them is made with tylose. For this letters is best to use gumpaste, but if you have no gumpaste at hand, make sure to add tylose to your fondant so it makes your fondant stronger and easier to work with.
Edna
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