Gum paste is a sugar dough, typically used by cake decorators to make flowers on a wedding cake. It is much like fondant, but the dough turns really hard like royal icing, but unfortunately, with royal icing you can't form it into flowers, but with gum paste you can. They can be made into roses, orchids, calla lilies, Stephanopoulos - basically any flower you can name.
It is used in foods as an emulsifier, thickener, stabilizer, and texturant additive (code E413). Also, it is the traditional binder used in the making of artist's pastels, as it does not adhere to itself the same way other gums (such as gum arabic) do when dry. Gum tragacanth is also used to make a paste used in floral sugarcraft to create life-like flowers on wires used as decorations for cakes. It makes a paste which dries brittle in the air and can take colorings. It enables users to get a very fine, delicate finish to their work.
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 29 October, 2009.
