Sugarpaste

Four Flavors Marble Butter Cake. Flavors used for this cake is strawberry extract, Cappuccino, Orange and Vanilla. I have created this to give a new exciting taste to butter cake. A normal Marble Butter Cake will only use vanilla essence.





























I would like to share with you what is Sugarpaste. Sugarpaste is also know as Fondant Icing, Moulding Icing and Gelatine icing (gelatine added). Use it for modeling all types of animals, figures, flowers, etc., either by coloring the icing first or by painting with liquid food coloring when completed. It is suitable for covering cakes such as Butter cakes, Fruit cakes, Sugee Cakes, etc., basically heavier cakes. Sugarpaste is not suitable for covering light and fluffy cakes such as Chiffon or Sponge because of the sugarpaste weight it will form folding lines like elephant skin on the sides of the cakes.

You can buy"Ready to use" Sugarpaste or Fondant Icing from any Bakery Ingredients shops. Of course it is cheaper to make your own! The main ingredient is icing sugar, egg white (meringue powder is a subsitute for egg white), liquid glucose, some recipe may have white vegetable fat and flavouring is optional.

Common comments are this icing is very sweet. Off course icing sugar is the main ingredient! Sugarpaste is to beautify the cake to bring out the theme of any occasion required. Most people will peel of the icing before eating the cake, usually children loves it!

Here are some of the work I have made with Sugarpaste. Its fun and allows you to be creative. The photos below are cakes covered with Sugarpaste . You can also cover the cake board, making the borders, flowers, butterflies, rocking horse and many more ...








I prefer Sugarpaste to cover these cake because it gives a very smooth finishing. Sometimes I use Royal Icing for the piping decoration and wordings to achieve the desired design.