What is Gum Paste?
Video Transcript What is Gum Paste? Hi, today I’m going to show you how you can make this porcelain like flowers out of gum paste. Gum paste is sugar dough made from powdered sugar, egg whites and vegetable gum. You can use it to make all kinds of flowers and bows and ribbons and figurines. Use them to decorate your cakes or even a centerpiece. Gum paste will also keep indefinitely, if you seal it well and store it in a cool, dry place they will keep forever. So I’m going to start by showing you a few things that you’ll need to make your gum paste flowers. The first thing is a drying rack. Some of these flowers that we’ll make will need to hang upside down. This here is a stackable cookie rack and that’s how we would hang our flowers to dry. Now if you don’t have a stackable cookie rack, here’s a little makeshift thing you can do at home with just any stack of books and a piece of one inch foam. Go ahead and wedge that foam between some books and your flowers can dry upside down. Now o
