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Cake recipe adjustments

Buttercream Icing recipe adjustments

Using the Wilton Cookie Press and the "Rope Disc" with the wooden stand, rope can now be made in extra long lengths for your cakes. (order here)
Add approximately 1 teaspoon of piping gel to 1 lb of fondant.   Or warm the plain fondant in the microwave (but it must be processed immediately).

The fondant is extruded onto the paper.  This allows it to be moved down the table without stretching it out of shape.  Allow to sit for a few minutes and then begin rolling the right side forward and the left side towards you to begin the rope twisting.  Continue rolling the right end forward moving it back onto the paper as necessary.  Then roll the left end of the rope toward you to twist that end.  Wrap the rope in a loose coil around your hand to place it around the cake as needed. 

I use Country Kitchen’s Dry Gumpaste mix.
I have used this product for a number of years and find it more than satisfactory for gumpaste projects.

Grease liberally the 5 Qt. Kitchenaid bowl with solid Crisco.

Dump the entire bag of dry CK gumpaste mix into the bowl.

Add 1/4 C minus 1T warm water slowly to the dry gumpaste mix with the paddle beater running. Reserve that 1T of warm water.

Mix on medium speed until the mixture begins to look like little balls. Scrape the beaters and the bottom of the bowl. Mix a little longer and give the mixture opportunity to bind together.
If it doesn’t all come together to make one mass - then add 1/2 teaspoon of the warm water at a time until the mixture does form one mass.

If you live in a humid area - this gumpaste is ideal for you. If you live in a very dry area you will probably need to add 1/4 lb of fondant to this mixture to give you a little longer drying time.

For super dark red gumpaste substitute the red very strong liquid paste color (on the shopping cart or order blank) for the water.

Using this color instead of the water to make the gumpaste gives you a deep burgandy color gumpaste. To make the lighter shades of red I simply added white gumpaste with the burgandy gumpaste to dilute the color. So for the Stephanie cake some of the roses were made using this (1) straight burgandy color, the next shade down I simply added some (2) white gumpaste to the burgandy. The next shade down I added a little more white (3) to soften the red a little more. The next shade down was using that #3 shade of red and some golden yellow gumpaste., Each of those colors were rolled out fairly thin (#4 on the Pasta machine) and then one color was brushed lightly with water and the other color was laid on top. That was then put back through the pasta machine again with the final thickness a #5 on the pasta machine. That gave me roses with red on the inside of the petals and gold on the outside of the petals. The last shade of red was done with the scraps of the red/gold rose gumpaste. Those colors mixed together gave another shade of red to add to the combination of red colors.

I use an Atlas Pasta Machine where the thickest setting is a #1 - all Pasta Machines are not callibrated the same so you need to find the thicknesses you are comfortable with. The nice thing about rolling your dough through the pasta machine is that it is always the same thickness.

The glass container was acquired from

Creative Glass Products Corporation
3525 Grand Blanc Road
Swartz Creek, Michigan 48473
810 - 655 - 6700

These containers come in several sizes and the lid has a silicone joint/hinge for inserting or removing things from the container

Lined Mats

The bottom mat is the 9 1/2" X 7" lined mat. I cut all of the top shapes from this one mat.

They are food safe and you can imprint with them on fondant or buttercream.

Or one of the favorite things I have done with two of these mats is to make "Ruffle" potato chips. Color your gumpaste or fondant to a soft base color for the chips, roll the gumpaste fairly thingand then groove the gumpaste between two of these mats. Lay them over wadded up paper towels to dry and then airbrush or dust them to give them a very realistic potato chip look.

This is the only mat I recommend that you buy in multiples. One to be left whole and the other to allow you to cut the shapes you need to get creative designs using this pattern.

You can use this mat as is for straight lines around the sides of your cakes or cut this mat into several shapes with straight lines, hearts, ovals, scallops or whatever hits your fancy.

One of the sides of the package cakes

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