I have used the Bakers Kitchen brand with success. If you look at my picts. it is on the brown 2 tier with the Cladaugh on top. The love knots on the side were made with the flexible icing. The consistency was like melted marshmallow. I piped on to a lightly greased piece of wax paper (put shortening on and then wipe it off) one day, let it dry over night, the next day I applied it to the cake. The extras that I had made were dried hard my the following day and were brittle. It was great to work with.
Sheila
Has anyone tried this "flexable royal icing"....AKA cheaper sugarveil in the sugarveil dispenser?
I am up in Canada and can't get anything other then Wilton GumPaste mix...any other suggestions?
Flour Confections in pickering sells sugarveil, not sure about the CK brand stuff. Sugartiers in Markham might carry it - they sell a lot of UK brands and other things I have not seen other places.
I'm watching this closely -- Sugarveil is my next big ticket item I plan to get but I'm curious as to how this flexible royal icing compares.
Hmmm, I 'm glad this got bumped up. I can't wait to try this.
Christy
So glad I found this, thanks for sharing. I have to make a Charlotte's Web cake for my son's school play in February. He wants me to put a web on the side that says "Some Play" I was dreading doing that with RI, will have to give this a try. Good excuse to order some more cake stuff, after all can't place an order for just one thing, would be a waste of shipping costs. 
did i miss the flexible royal icing recipe?? or is everyone still looking for it??sorry..suffering slow brain today
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!
The recipe is a few posts down on the first page 
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!
Sorry, I'm not sure if this has been addressed or not, can you use ANY powdered gumpaste mix or does it have to be this brand?
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.
Unfortunately you cant do the handwriting as it would be a mirror image.. so the words would be backwards when you tried to apply to your cake..
You could do the writing if you turn the paper over and write it backwards. It should not be too hard to do as you are now seeing it backwards. When it dries then you can place it on your cake and it shows as the correct direction.
evelyn
Thanks for sharing....I have to do more snowflakes and I'm all of this idea. Did you use the mix that already had the sugar in it?
With the gumpaste mix does everything need to be grease free like with royal icing?
Thanks for all the posts, I was looking into sugarveil for a wedding cake that I'm doing in March and thought I would check CC to see if there were any postings and how people liked it when I ran across this thread. I am definitely going to try this. Has anyone tried making ribbons and bows with this? if so how did you like the results?
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.
Unfortunately you cant do the handwriting as it would be a mirror image.. so the words would be backwards when you tried to apply to your cake..
You could do the writing if you turn the paper over and write it backwards. It should not be too hard to do as you are now seeing it backwards. When it dries then you can place it on your cake and it shows as the correct direction.
evelyn
You wouldn't need to write it backwards, the top is what is seen, the back of the piping rests towards the cake. Like here:
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1940664
I just lightly greased a piece of parchment and piped out the web and lettering, let dry overnight, peeled off the parchment and the side that was against the parchment is the back of the design.
Neat! what did you use to hold up the web?
You wouldn't need to write it backwards, the top is what is seen, the back of the piping rests towards the cake. Like here:
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1940664
I just lightly greased a piece of parchment and piped out the web and lettering, let dry overnight, peeled off the parchment and the side that was against the parchment is the back of the design.
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I have a doubt about sugarveil mats.. Does fondant work with the sugarveil mat jus like they work with any other silicon mold? or are they too intricate for that..
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