What Do Y'all Make Your Figures From?
Decorating By melissamc Updated 20 Oct 2013 , 3:01am by Daisyblue002
ADepends on hoe big, how posed and how much time you have. I use rkt in my cores to get a really good posture. If I plan ahead and if the cust gives me enough time, then gumpaste. To sculpt I like fondant and tylo. It's like clay, lovely to work with but if you need extravagant stuff the drying time is too long x x x x
AModeling chocolate. No one wants to eat gumpaste of wads of fondant, and chocolate works SOOOOOO much better.
AModeling chocolate is corn syrup and chocolate (or candy melts).
I use fondant with added Tylose - but my figures aren't usually for eating (although my neice did eat a shoe I made with a stick of spaghetti holding up the heel and she didnt even notice!). If people wanted to eat the figures I think I'd use modelling chocolate.
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If people wanted to eat the figures I think I'd use modelling chocolate.
I think people always want to eat them. Kids will snatch them up first before the cake itself. I've even had my kids try to eat gumpaste flowers when they were younger - they learned. Heh.
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I think people always want to eat them. Kids will snatch them up first before the cake itself. I've even had my kids try to eat gumpaste flowers when they were younger - they learned. Heh.
That's very true. Because all my cakes have been for friends and family, I'm always the one who cuts it up and tries to steer the kids away from eating the figures. Don't want to crack little teeth. I haven't tried modelling chocolate before, not too sure how it would hold up in the hot Sydney weather? Definitely have to add it to the to-do list.
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