What are sugar paste flowers? What is the difference between real flowers and sugar paste flowers?
Sugar paste, also known as gum paste, 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 is really a pliable “sugar dough”, mixed with gums which makes it easy to shape like clay. It has a long and interesting history and has been used by confectioners to make edible decorations since the late medieval period. Sugar paste flowers will last forever. Real flowers however do not. You can save your sugar paste flowers and they will keep looking beautiful as the day you got married. Many Brides are starting to have there own bouquets made out of sugar paste.
