I just found out that you can use powdered gumpaste mix to make a flexible royal icing. I tried the baker's kitchen brand of g.p. mix and the instructions are on the bag. Usually when I pipe out decorations like snowflakes or monograms, they are so brittle that I have to make 2X as many as I need to cover for breakage. I piped out monograms onto greased parchment paper laid over a pattern I printed off the computer and the next day, they were rubbery when I peeled them off. I just stuck them onto the cake! Very cool! try it, it works.

Very cool to know! So you just follow directions that are on the package?

how much do you use? do you add it to your regular r/i recipe or does it replace meringue powder? details....please

Can you give us the recipe? I have the gumpaste mix here but not the one you mentioned. I would really like to try this.

Sorry I got so excited, I never wrote the recipe! I added 1/3 cup hot water to 1 cup of powdered gumpaste mix (the baker's kitchen brand available on their website) and whipped like royal icing. It is a little soft and stringy (the gums), but worth it. After one day, it was rubbery, after 2 days it did get a little fragile. I even experimented by piping a long rope onto greased parchment, and later peeled it off and wrapped it around my cake for a border!

I'd love to know how you altered the gumpaste as well.

I think this formula for flexible gumpaste will work the same as Sugar veil, but a fraction of the cost......

Very cool

Do you mind showing us the cake???

cakeymom

Thanks for the tip!

I just got this email from Baker's Kitchen:

"BIG NEWS!!
How to make Flexible Royal Icing:
We have discovered a great secondary use for our new gumpaste mix. You can make a flexible royal icing out of it. Have you ever piped royal icing out onto parchment paper to make cake decorations, only to have most of them break prior to use? Well, here's your answer: Simply mix 1 cup of our TBK gumpaste mix with 1/3 cup hot water, beat well with an electric mixer, (it will be soft) and use to pipe out designsonto lightly greased parchment paper. Print out designs or monograms from your computer, lay under the parchment, and trace. Allow to dry overnight, and the pieces will be flexible and "rubbery". The vegetable gums in the gumpaste mix are the cause of this. Also works great for piping out rope borders or strings of pearls, then pick them up and stick on your cake! It is a little too soft to make royal icing roses out of it, but piped designs are perfect! Works on the white or chocolate gumpaste mix. The chocolate comes out a little stringier, but it's worth the trouble for such fantastic results!"

yeah, sounds like a version of sugarveil. and cheaper!
good to know, thanks for posting!
Jodi

I wonder if this will work with the wilton gumpaste mix also??????

HMMMMMMM

May call for some experimentation!

I have some CK gumpaste mix, might have to give it a try.

Sounds interesting. Might have to try making my guitar strings for my guitar cake next montyh. Thanks so much for sharing.

Thanks for this information!!

I need to try this out! Thanks for sharing this!

Cant wait to try it!

Great! Thanks

Thanks so much for sharing this! I have only used RI, but I would love to try this! Much appreciated!

cant wait for someone to post results with wiltons gp mix

I am going to try this with Wilton tomorrow! I am very excited to see if it works!! I'll let you all know

I would love to have a recipe that you can make yourself (not from a mix). Does anyone have one? I hate having to buy all of this extra stuff. I'm staring to run out of room to store everyting. lol

Thanks for sharing, I wonder if this would work for piping messages. My hand writing sucks to begin with, it's worse on a cake.

Hi Marcy,
thanks for posting this. could you please post the ingredients on your gum paste package that you used?
thanks

I'm going to have to try this tonight! Thanks for the info!!!

I have tried both ck g-paste mix and the baker's kitchen brand to make the flexible royal icing. ck worked pretty good, but the baker's kitchen gpaste mix stayed flexible longer. I've been playing with this stuff and it's fun. I made a cake for a skiing friend and piped snowflakes out, (traced the patterns) and stuck them all over the cake, even bent over the edges. (none broke! Yoo-Hoo!) I havn't tried wilton, it's too expensive!

I will be running to the store on Monday to try this! Thank you so much for posting.

Oh great! Yet another thing to add to my 'things to try' list! If only I had more time to try out the HUNDREDS of thing I want to do....lol