BAKING PROJECT

Hi everyone.. sorry for not updating this blog more often. Please subscribe to my RSS feed if you haven’t done so. Anyway, today I was fasting (ada gak rasa macam nak pengsan, baru 1st day ganti ! ) so I was quite tired and free of cooking. Took out my gumpaste and started making these roses. I can assure you this technique is so much easier than the Wilton technique. You need only the calyx cutter. Ok, here’s the step by step tutorial.

First, make a cone shape from your gumpaste.

Then, for the petal, make a small ball.

Pinch to flatten it, making sure the edges are thin. Rub your fingers with shortening when doing this.

Brush a little water at the bottom and stick it to the cone. Try to cover the whole tip.

This is the first layer. The layering part is quite easy to remember. You will need :

My second layer is completed :

Continue till the 4th layer. Or you could stop here to make a bud.

Now, for the calyx you will need to use a cutter. If you don’t have any, you could just cut out the shape with a craft knife.

I use my fingers to pull and thin the calyx.

Brush some water and glue it to the base of the rose. Before that, pinch out the excess cone at the bottom of the rose.

So here’s the completed flowers.

Just leave it to dry, it can stand on its own due to the cone shape beneath. I like using this technique, its fast and easy. Probably most of you already know how to do this, but I still hope this tutorial will be useful to the newbies.

Time to sign off, thanks for stopping by and … smile ! Tomorrow’s Friday !

This is another version of a gumpaste recipe. It uses gum tragacanth. You can also try making gumpaste using gum tex from Wilton. I’ve tried the recipe below and it works. So, as long as I can get hold of gum trag I will be using this recipe for all my flowers.

Ingredients

500 g icing sugar

1 tablespoon gum tragacanth

1 1/2 tablespoon cold water

2 teaspoon powdered gelatine

2 teaspoon liquid glucose

1 tablespoon shortening

1 egg white

Method :

Mix the icing sugar with the gum trag, and sieve. Put in a heavy duty mixer bowl.

Sprinkle the gelatine over the water, and wait until it becomes spongy. Then double boil until it turns into liquid again. Add the glucose, stir until it turns liquid too, then add in the shortening . Continue stirring until all are melted.

Remove from heat. Pour into the icing sugar, and mix in the egg white. Beat until the paste becomes white and elastic. Remove the gumpaste, put in an airtight container and let it rest for at least 12 hours before using.

If you notice, the method is very similar to making fondant. If you can make fondant on your own, I think you will have no trouble in making gumpaste. Its definitely cheaper than buying the mix or ready to roll type. You can make a large batch, divide into small pieces and keep it frozen. So, if making flowers is your passion, or you do a lot of figurines, fabric effect.. I think it’s worth trying this recipe.

Salam,