I Need Recipe On How To Mix Gumpaste And How Make Flowers
Decorating By fola Updated 20 Sep 2005 , 6:23pm by TamiAZ
I need recipe on how to mix gumpaste and how to make flowers such rose, lilly, sun flower with it. I am baking a wedding cake for a friend who has requested for these flowers to be part of the decoration.
Your response will ge highly appreciated 
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Thank you 
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Here is my recipe. 1 teaspoon Wilton Glucose, 4 tablespoons warm water, 1 tablespoon Wilton Gum-Tex and 1 pound of confectioners' sugar.
Stir the Glucose in the warm water until it has disolved. Add the Gum-tex to the confectioner sugar. Make a well in the center and pour the water and Glucose mixture into the well. Mix well. Put this in a plastic bag and let set at room temperature overnight. The next day knead the mixture and add your color.
I buy the gumpaste mix from www.beryls.com...all you have to do is grease your kitchen aide mixer and paddle....
add the powder...it comes with a little measuring cup for the water.
mix till it pulls away from the bowl, store until you are ready to use.
Most home made gumpaste has to be stored for at least 24 hours to age or cure to be reliable.
Not this stuff. and it comes in red and green.
When I make roses, I make the red batch and a white batch, and proceed to "step down" my color.
I start with all red, then as I go add more and more white, so I can get nice shades of red roses.
Then I use my dusting colors to give them a more realistic tone.
I hope this helps.
And once your flowers are dry, they keep forever if you keep them away from sun, dust and moisture. I store them in styrofoam that I cut to fit plastic shoe boxes that I get for a dollar at the .99 cent store!
The Wilton site has lots of instructions. here is one for fondant roses (can be made with gumpaste, as well!)
http://www.wilton.com/decorating/basic/fondantrose.cfm
Thanks ladies so much for your response to my mail. I really appreciate but i still need the steps or method on how to make roses and other flowers.
Thank you.
It's kind of difficult to post directions for flowers since some directions can be quite lengthy. I would recommend buying a book on making gumpaste flowers so you have directions and illustrations.. Nicholas Lodge has some great books and videos (dvd's) on how to make flowers. His prices are reasonable as well. www.nicholaslodge.com
He also has a great recipe for gumpaste... It's pretty easy to make and work with.
Good luck!!
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