There are several types of icing which can be used depending on your specific project.
Fondant Icing
- Available in most supercraft shops & supermarkets, comes in a range of colours
- CMC powder can be added to fondant icing to make modelling paste
- Fondant is not suitable for making wired/fine flowers or plaques
- Mainly used to cover cakes
- Fondant can be frozen
Royal Icing
- Is made using egg white or egg white substitute & icing sugar
- Can be used to cover cakes, pipe inscriptions, side designs on cakes along with flood & lace work
- Royal Icing is a basic ingredient for pastillage & home made flower paste.
- Glycerine needs to be added to royal icing if used directly on a cake
- Royal Icing can be stored using a double layer of cleanfilm for 1 to 2 days. Do Not use if the royal icing has formed a crust
Modelling Paste Sets firm but not rock hard
- Can be bought from supercraft shops, or made with fondant icing & CMC. 250g fondant to 1tsp CMC or half flower paste
- Modelling Paste is used for all types of modelling. It can be used for frills on cakes
- Modelling Paste is not suitable for wired flowers or plaques
Flower Paste Can be rolled very thin
- Can be bought from supercraft shops in a range of colours
- Flower Paste is used for all flowers and leaves or anywhere that the paste need to be rolled really thin
- Flower Paste is not suitable for plaques
- Flower Paste dries hard & is not overly pleasant to eat
Pastillage Sets rock hard
- Is made with royal icing and CMC, its also avaliable from sugarcraft shops in a powder form
- Pastillage dries really hard & is used for plagues/boxes/crowns etc. There are lots of different recipes
- Pastillage is not suitable for for modelling of flowers
