You should have an even flesh coloured paste with no streaky bits! You must knead your modelling paste until it is soft, smooth, and pliable and crack free. Whatever you are making pig, dog, person, kettle start with a ball then shape as required. The ball as mentioned above should be smooth and crack free. Most things are made from basic shapes — a ball, a teardrop or pear and then the detail added with the use of modelling tools.
For support use dry spaghetti or even sugar sticks — do not use inedible and sharp items such as cocktail sticks. If you need more help remember we run lots of fabulous courses. Good ones to start with are Introduction to modelling , Farmyard animal modelling , Professional people modelling. A small amount of modelling is covered in our Back to Basics course.
Prepare your modelling paste. Delicious and made from almonds and sugar, marzipan can be used to model characters as well as to cover a cake before the iced finish. Top tip! Just be aware that, because of its nut content, it may not be suitable for clients. A great modelling material for simple figures when you require the product to hold its shape, dry quickly, but still remain soft enough to eat. White sugar dough can be easily coloured with edible paste and dust colours.
For a firmer paste add a little Gum Tragacanth and for a softer paste add a little white vegetable fat. It's pretty simple when you read into it and many of the differently named pastes do exactly what they say on the tin we're looking at your flower paste!
Sugarpastes vary in price and with the more expensive ones, a little tends to go a long way. It's essential for your finished results and your budget that you store sugarpastes correctly once open. For rolled sugarpaste, try to not use too much cornflour or icing sugar if you want to save trimmings, as this dries fondant out. Keep away from moisture and heat. Store in the best airtight bags you can lay your hands on, in an airtight container in a cool and dry place. Do not refrigerate!
In the Debbie Brown book she says to use 1lb fondant and 2 tsp tylose to make the modeling paste. I was wondering if I could just use my Nicholas Lodge gumpaste recipe to make my figurines. Thanks, Danyelle. Modeling paste is made as Debbie Brown describes because you get the strength of gumpaste and the smoothness of fondant. Straight gumpaste might be too stiff or dry to quickly to make figures from.
Modeling paste can also be made by mixing fondant and gumpaste. I use the gumpaste for figurines. The advantage of using this is that you can roll it really thin and it remains pliable to mould but firmly dries to create some really delicate and lifelike flowers.
Modelling Paste — this is used for creating figures and other smaller modelled items. It is flexible like sugarpaste but gives a smoother finish and will generally hold its shape better. It remains a little pliable and is more durable.
As an alternative you can mix a little flower paste and sugarpaste together to create a similar effect.
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