I am making a Hannah Montana guitar cake for my grandaughter and am going to cover it with BC but want to make some of the other decorations out of fondant or gum paste, but how do you determine which one to use, I've tried searching the internet but no luck. I've used both a few times in my limited cake decorating experience, but don't know how to determine which to use for what...........

Hope this makes sense!

Thanks in advance.

Debbie

I guess it really just depends on the item. What else are you thinking about making?

I would make the knobs out of gumpaste. Then I would make the pick guard and the string out of fondant. Now these flowers, are they going to be standing up like rose would on a wedding cake? Or is it going to be flat like the pick guard? And then just kind of etched out? (Sorry, I was looking at some Hannah Montana guitars). If it's going to be real flowers like the wedding, I would use gumpaste. If it's the other, I would use fondant.

And I'm sorry, but I have no idea what the long thingy on the end means! I even asked my husband who plays the guitar. Hope this helps!

I prefer to use gumpaste for decorations. It keeps it's shape and easier to form.

gumpaste dries rock hard and fondant usually with keep a little flexibility...depends on what you're making.