Fondant and Gumpaste?!
Answers: wat is the difference 'tween fondant and gumpaste...and wat is the best to use for making edible flowers
Fondant is a mix of sugar and glucose with a bit of cream of tarter and is cooked to a soft ball stage, 250 d f, then poured on to a marble slab or table and pulled like taffy until smooth and white, then stored in a air tgiht package and rolled like pie dough and formed over the cakes being "masked".
GumPaste is a mix of icing sugar, cornstarch, glucose and gum arabic powder or another gum base, they to are mixed and then rolled with the aid of cornstarch or icng sugar to mold flowers, sheet borders, make pillar casts for wedding cakes and other ornamental decoration, you can colour it with food colouring or I had a pastry chef friend who used a hobby set spray paint kit, one you would use for models and fine airbrushing techniques.
While they have some similar characteristics and are used for a similar applications they are 2 totally different balls of wax structurally.
I ama former chef, and I did dabble in this for sometime, but have done showpieces for my employers, I went more to fat sculpturing and sugar work pulled and blown and in molds as my side line.
Hi, Fondant is for covering the cake, it's another kind of icing, but more elegant. The gumpaste is for making flowers. You can look in this link: fondant.cakecentral.com/fondant, once you get there click recipes and search for anything you want to know about cakes.