Modelling paste & gum paste recipes
If you can find gum tragacanth (berbelit lidah..) you can use this recipe to make your modelling paste. Suitable to make all 3D figures.
280g icing sugar
3 teaspoon gum trag
1 teaspoon liquid glucose
6 teaspoon water
315 g ready fondant/sugarpaste (refer to my earlier post for the recipe)
Method
Sift icing sugar and gum trag. Add glucose & water. Mix. Knead until you get a dough consistency. Lastly mix together with the ready fondant. If the final dough is too dry, you may add some shortening.
You can use cornflour to dust your surface top.
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I personally have not tried making the above recipe.. I’ve been searching everywhere for the gum trag but can’t find any..if I ever find it I suspect it will be very expensive. However, modelling paste is excellent as it is more pliable, dries faster and harder compared to using fondant (added with Gum-tex).
Speaking of gum-tex, I bought a can a few weeks ago..
Gum-tex is made from karaya (maybe slightly cheaper than gum trag). One can of about 170gm cost me RM30.00. Hope you can see the recipe on how to make gum paste below :
I’ve been wanting to make this recipe but got no time yet.. coming soon. I guess you can use this gum paste mix to make your flowers, as well as all the 3D figures. It should be better than using fondant which turns all soft in our weather. Fondant is perfect for covering cakes but to make figures, not recommended. You have to add gum tragacanth or gum-tex to it.
Hope the info is useful..and for those sugarcraft experts out there, any other tips?
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Gum trag is much, much better, but if your climate is too humid just like mine in Houston, Tx then you can add a little more powdered sugar to stiffen it up. I have also added fondant and gumpaste together for special projects. Love your website, keep it up.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Hi Betty, I finally found the gum trag but it is too expensive here in Malaysia. For now, I’m using Wilton gum paste mix for my flowers, which I think is ok. Yes, I do notice that I have to keep on adding more icing sugar because of the weather here. Do you have a website, would love to see your work. Thanks for the advice.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:48 am
hello im kikat i will be glad if you can help me.is it safe to use tylose powder in making gumpaste? is it safe to eat the candy after.i bought tylose powder in sweetcraft last week.and i doubt to use it because its no brand name.can you suggest me a brand of tylose powder.that safe for my sugar paste candy…thank you
May 13th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Hi Kitkats, tylose powder or cmc as I know it, is used the same way as gum tragacanth or gumtex, to be mixed into your fondant, so that it is more pliable and dries faster and becomes hard. Once it is hard, I don’t think it is suitable to be eaten. For candy, I’m not sure how. I don’t use any tylose powder coz it’s too expensive here, so I can’t suggest a good brand. But if you search the net, you can find more info on where to get it. Thank you.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:55 am
I’m doing my MS project on gum paste, and when I called a US supplier to request a sample they said that due to the instability in the middle east availability was extremely limited. CMC, as long as it is food grade, is just fine to eat.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Thanks Chou for the info. We have to check the label when buying.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Please I need to know how much CMC need to mix with fondat to do 3d bears.
Thanks
June 25th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Sorry Bivi, I am not familiar in using CMC. But I read somewhere, the combination is 2 teaspoon of CMC to add to 500 gm fondant. Thanks.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
[...] 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 [...]