Otherwise, add to your dough to reach a firm finish. Gum-Tex is another brand-name powder that works great as a Tylose powder substitute. As food glue, Gum-Tex excels. Most bakers find Gum-Tex to be one of the most versatile Tylose powder substitutes available.
In addition, depending on where you live, tragacanth powder may also be hard to find. A teaspoon of tragacanth to a pound of fondant is the recommended ratio for hardening, and hardening occurs over hours. A little gum tragacanth powder can be mixed with water and then child for a few hours to make an effective food glue.
From molding delicate decorations to hardening fondant for shaping — gum tragacanth works great, but we recommend adding a food dye to counter the yellowing effect. When used as a food glue, the discoloration is, of course, not noticeable.
Unlike fondant, modeling paste dries completely hard, making it an ideal substitute for Tylose powder solutions. There are many varieties available, and each can be used as food glue or to model shapes, figurines, and decorative details. Standard modeling paste is even easier to handle than flower paste as it takes longer to dry.
Petal paste is easier to work with than modeling and flower paste, but it takes the longest to dry. Do not store in the fridge! A versatile little ingredient that holds the key to your best decorations yet.
Tylose can be bought online or in most cake decorating stores. We only sell the moulds and not edible products such as Tylose or colours. Watch the quick video below to see the different consistency in the icing. Thanks for the helpful videos. Log in or Create account. Cart 0. Menu Cart 0. All three gums more or less do the same job, and because CMC acts much faster, you can usually use the gum paste very soon after you have made it. However, gumpaste made with Gum Tragacanth should be left for at least 4 hours or preferably overnight before using it.
The main purpose of rolling fondant is to cover a cake and is made with ingredients that let the fondant dry to a certain extent, but the cake can still be cut easily. Whatever sugar you use, different sugar brands tend to differ considerably, and it may be the amount of cornstarch the manufacturer has added to keep their product flowing.
You can find out about the pros and cons of making gum paste with beet sugar or cane sugar in an article on my blog if you click this link. Because different sugar brands vary so much, you may find that the amount of gum stated in the recipe is just right, or the gum paste may be too stiff or not stiff enough. This is where you may need to cheat a little, and this also applies to paste you have bought from a supplier.
Remember, if you add too much, it will cease to be gum paste and not dry hard enough. If the gum paste is not stiff enough, then add a little gum to the dough no more than a pinch at a time, remembering CMC will work quite quickly and Gum Tragacanth will take longer to work.
If you would like to make gum paste, I have written an article in my blog giving the ingredients and instructions that you can see by clicking the following link. Years ago, someone told me a story about one of those rock-hard cakes.
It was taken away to be cut up, but no one could find anything that would break through the icing. Well, if you cover a cake with gum paste, the same thing could happen because it will dry just as hard, and it will be impossible to cut the cake properly, and no one would be able to eat it.
Use fondant, buttercream, ganache, or any reasonably easy to cut coating to cover your cakes. Make any decorations that will be cut and eaten with the cake out of fondant or piped Royal icing that has some glycerine added. Just use gum paste to make your flower arrangements or ornaments, which are usually kept as souvenirs of the occasion and not eaten.
The FDA approves gum Tragacanth as being a safe ingredient used in food and medicines, and because it is free from animal products, it can be used for vegans and vegetarians. Your blog is awesome by the way!!!! Beth, you are on the right track by using the tylose powder just add it to your fondant so that it will have more strength to stand on its own.
Tylose will not affect the taste, nor will it make it too hard to eat. Tylose powder is actually in many food products that we ear everyday so its no issue! Thanks so much for your nice comment. I wonder if I will need adding cmc on it to become more elastic to avoid thinning or cracking? Pls help! Please return message as soon as posable thank you soooo much. Yes, you can use Marshmallow Fondant with Gum Tex added to it to strengthen your fondant….
Good Luck. You can use cmc powder in your fondant or the tylose both products do the same thing…. Good luck to you……….. Hi, I making plaques for my cupcakes on which I will be adding edible printed pictures…. I have bought fondant and tylose powder to ensure the plaques harden instead of flopping on the cucpake!
Would you say with the tylose powder I can make the plaques on the same day or should it be prepared in advance? CJ It is always best to make your toppers up in advance so that they have time to properly dry.
I would make them up a week in advance if it were me making them even if using the tylose powder. Thanks so much for the reply. I made them in advance and they were fine! Thanks for the tips once again cx. Hi sugar Lane, I wonder where can I buy those cmc,tylose or trag powder in the Philippines. Im coming to Manila after holy week. Hi im going to make my first fully decorated cake in a few weeks for my nephews christening and I was wondering if im right in thinkin I should add the tylose powder to the fondant paste to make the little blocks for the name letters to go on?
Hi I am a vegetarian. My other problem is when I put fondant flowers on fresh cream the colour runs onto the cream. Wat can I use to stop this from happening. Thanks dear, knowing these differences has helped me. Fatima YES….. C powder. You can purchase the CMC Powder or Gum Arabic and add one of them to the Pettince Fondant that you can purchase and this will give you a better comtrolled paste that should enable you to create sugar flowers.
The key to making the sugar flowers is not the elasticity as much as the ability to roll the paste out very thin making a realistic looking flower. Experiment a bit by adding 2 pinches one of the gum ingredients cmc powder or gum arabic to a 2 inch sized ball of fondant and work with it, try making a flower and see how it goes for you. I have done this myself in the past and was able to make it work…. Hi Naomi, not sure where in South Africa you live, but I buy my plastic icing etc.
I live in Western Cape. They might have a branch near you, be able to deliver or refer you to someone else. I dnt have cmc powder available Can i add gum tex poweder while making my fondant to avoid fondant becoming too shaggy in summer heat Plz reply Thanx. Saima Yes you can add some gum tex to add to your fondant to firm it up a bit for the shapes you are doing my friend!
Also I would make your shapes ahead of time so that they will retain their shape. I am from Argentina and it is very difficult for my to find CMC or Tylose powder here, that is why I want to understand if cellulose gum should be the same thing than glucose? Because here we use Glucose to helps products retain moisture and the texture of the glucose we have here is very very similar to the edible glue I watched in many videos at youtube.
Could you please help me with that? Gluscose is what we actually use for making Fondant from scratch. It is not the same thing as CMC powder or Tylose powder. If at all possible it may be best to purchase one of them from the internet. Thank you so much now I have a better understanding of these types of gums but one question, I made the sole to a shoe I used Fondx added some Wilton gumpaste and let it set up for 2 weeks it never got stiff what did I do wrong??
Hi, I have made gum paste with tylose powder, The flowers made from this paste did not dry hard, can you tell me why, could it be due to less tylose pdr or is the gum paste old as I made if about a month back. What can I do to get nice hard dryed flowers.
How much tylose did you use. Half teaspoon for gms of fondant is usually enough. Sometimes you might have to use 1 teaspoon. Make sure you knead it in well. Most importantly is to leave it wrapped in clingfilm overnight or for a few hours to let it firm up. Technically, yes they are edible…. Not usually since when they dry they are much too hard, but they are all created using fondant or gumpaste and both are edible for cake decorating.
I do understand, I have always be asked, can those be eaten. Good luck to you my friend, welcome to the world of cake decorating! I live in greece and i order most of the ingredients from UK, since there is a limited variety available here and often really overpriced. It melts into oil when cooked. What can i use instead of Crisco? Thanks for any answer really! Welcome my friend!!
To be honest I am not sure what you should use to make sugarpaste, but I would try the fytini since it is like a vegetable shortening…. I will also tell you since you do purchase things from the UL, you can purchase a shortening from them as well if you are interested. There is a shoortening used by decorators called high ratio shortening to make their sugarpaste. You may also be able to purchase a regular shortening from the UK too.
I am sorry I was unable to give you more info on what you could use from Greece. All my best to you!! Hi, I am a beginner. I bought some fondant from the shop and was wondering if I needed to add the tylose powder to this before I create my little animals?
Linda, I would add some tylose powder to your fondant so that it will add strength to the paste for making your animals. Just add a few pinches to your paste and knead it very well, then make your animals! Thank you so much. I can now get started. I have been too scared to try this before I got your reply.
To be honest I have no idea what the shelf life of Tylose Powder would be, you could google and see if there is anything online that would state exactly what the shelf life is. I would think it lasts quite some time, I have some that I have been using for at least a year, it is powder so it should have a long shelf life. Hi I was wondering if I can use gum arabic to make gum paste since that is the only thing around me?
Rana, yes you can use the gum arabic to make your gumpaste it is a gum ingredient and will do the same thing as tylose powder does. Good luck to you my friend!! Lena, you should be able to use the Xanthan gum since it is a gum ingredient, although I have never used it myself. I would try the same amount as I would with the tylose powder which would be tsps to a pound of fondant. Good luck to you! Maria, yes you can add a gum mix to the fondant for making flowers, adding a gum product turns the fondant into a quick gumpaste.
Sharon if you are using gumpaste you do not need to add any gums to it, for those who dont know what I mean by gums, I am referring to tylose powder, cmc powder or gum trag.
If you are using regular fondant then yes you would add a gum ingredient to it. The best way to go about doing this project…. Hi, I am from India and newly starting up making figurines. I would like to know if I can add CMC to fondant to make figurines dry up faster. Also, how much CMC should I be adding. I must say the figurines you have made look really really cute. Yes, Cmc powder can be used and added to your fondant….. Now if I am making a for example a little dog figure I just add a few pinches of tylose or cmc powder to the ball of fondant that I intend to use for my dog.
I hope this makes sense to you. I wish you the best with your figures!! Am just starting out and mostly on my own. Really appreciated your definitions of powders used in gum paste.
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