Can i use gum paste mix instead of gum base in making a bubble gum?
Gum paste, also known as sugar paste, pastillage or sometimes called candy clay, is used for making all kinds of fancy decorations, such as long-lasting flowers, ribbons, bows, leaves, and just about anything else you can imagine. It has a long and interesting history and has been used by confectioners to make edible decorations since the late medieval period. Today it is quite popular with cake designers. Gum paste flowers by Flower Guy. The flowers can be made in advance and stored in plastic boxes at the cool side of room temperature, away from heat and humidity. Pieces within the flower can be “glued” together with a drop of reconstituted pasteurized powdered egg white. Gum paste is really a pliable “sugar dough”, mixed with gums, which makes it easy to shape like modeling clay. Because of its sugar content, dries hard with the texture and crispness of a Necco wafer, and can be very brittle. It can be tinted, painted on or dusted with decorating dusts. It is considered “technically
