What's The Difference Between Gumpaste, Fondant, & Marzi
Decorating By jojo12 Updated 21 Jan 2007 , 4:33pm by MissBaritone
I have seen lots of chats and some are about gumpaste, or fondant or marzipan (hope i am spelling this right) and I wanted to know what is the diffence with each of these. Is one easier to use than another, is one easier to color than another. How about taste or can flavors be added? Where do you buy these or can are they made from a recipe (if so where can I find the recipes). I have used alot of icing and whipped cream for my cakes and would like to try some other methods but I still want it to taste great.
I would appreciate any help I can get
marzipan is made fron almonds and is pale yellow in colour. Used in the UK for covering fruit cake before covering in fondant or royal. Very good for modelling.
fondant sometimes known as sugarpaste or ready to roll icing. usually white in colour. Does take colour very well. ideal for covering a cake and good for modelling.
Gumpaste, can be rolled very thin and dries extremely hard. ideal for making flowers
jojo:
it can be very confusing!!!
Look online at SugarCraft.com, Caljava.com and SwissConnection.com. These sites have the already-made fondant, gumpaste (or sugarpaste), white chocolate rolled fondant (or fondant), pettinice (brand of fondant) and FondX (another brand of fondant). There are MANY other sites also. Do a search for "fondant" when you get a chance.
Gumpaste and fondant can also be mixed 50/50 for shapes (bows, etc).
Fondant is used to cover cakes and you can colour and flavour. There are a lot of different pre made brands and different recipes. I have used a pre-packed one, Pettinice this is great to work with and tastes ok. I also use MMF from this site and it is fantastic and everyone loves the flavour, its also much cheaper to use and easier to flavour and colour
You also use fondants for decorating and molding. If I need it to dry hard and hold its shape I add tylose to it.
Gumpaste dries really hard and can be rolled out super thin.. this is used for flowers and delicate work and be coloured, dusted painted. It can be mixed with fondant 50/50 for modeling, figure making etc..this also dries really hard
As for Marzipan....as I have not used it I can't really help you out....sorry.....I know it was very popular to use under fondant for fruit cakes. I think you can mold out of it as well.....
Hope this has helped.....and not confused more!!!! 
MMF is marshmallow fondant. The recipe is available on this site
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