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Texas_Rose
Posted 26 Jul 2009 , 6:57am
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Also, fondant is for eating and gumpaste is not. Gumpaste is technically edible but it dries rock hard. Fondant, on a cake at least, stays soft enough that you can cut it and chew it easily.
GP is usually used for modeling figures and making flowers.
For figures, it dries faster & harder. Many people mix GP w/fondant if they are not real fast w/making figures as the added fondant slows down the drying of GP allowing you to work fine details before it drys.
For flowers you can roll it much thinner to get more real looking ones.
To eat it would be like eating an egg shell - hard & very crunchy.
Lots of us use fondant for decorations on b'cream or fondant covered cakes.
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