How to choose sugar paste?

How to choose sugar paste? It is a question of those who face the fascinating world of cake design for the first time, but it is also an increasingly present request than those who have not yet found the sugar paste that fulfills it.

This question, despite being placed and received answers in many blogs and Facebook groups has not yet found its clear and fee response. In fact there is no completely exhaustive remedy except that it depends! It depends on many factors and the combination of different factors:

• Do you live in a place with dry or wet air?
• Do you have your hands warm or cold?
• Do you work quickly or are you a little slow?
• Do you need pasta you wipe away or remains soft?

You are questions you need to ask you before you start choosing the pasta that best suits you. There are paste for coverage or for modeling that lend themselves better for the different climate and different types of hands. In the list I presented I tried to divide the pastas for their characteristics, but it is a fairly subjective division. It's just a starting point from which to start your journey to the perfect pasta for you.

Cover paste

• Ticino Tropic mass - One of the most popular pastries for its elasticity, ease of drafting, velvety appearance and perfect neutral flavor for a wet climate and pretty cold hands. A paste that does not disappoint you even in summer, because it also manages high temperatures without melting.
• Modecor Pop and Modecor Elite - Two pasta suitable for cold hands, easy to spread, are not particularly suitable for wet climate and very hot temperatures.
• Modecor Elite Summer- Perfect for warm and wet climate and warm hands, used mainly during summer months.
• Madam Loulou - Fantastic for hot motorcycle hands, he also holds very high summer temperatures, does not exude.
• Funcakes - A perfect multi-purpose pasta even in summer and loved by those who have warm hands, but even with cold hands do a good job.

Modeling Pasts

• Saracino model - It is one of the most used versatile pastes being suitable for both hot and cold hands, dried quickly.
• Laped model - Pasta suitable for cold hands, with warm hands it is almost impossible to use it.
• Decorina - A multi-purpose pasta.
• Modecor Model Express - Usable from all, perfect for warm hands.
• Madam Loulou - Being a very sustained pasta it is only suitable for hot hands.
• Gum Paste - They are used pastes to create sugar or decorations flowers where the dough must dry quickly and should not soften over time.
• Satin Ice, Modecor, Funcakes, Squires Kitchen and Cake&Cake - They are perfect for all types of hands because they dry very quickly, an important feature to create flowers from the thin petal and lasting over time.

I gave you some inspiration for your search for perfect sugar paste!

But in my opinion the best advice I can give you is tried! Experience, you have carried away from the sensations when you use a paste. It must conquer its consistency, perfume, flavor and malleability.
Don't you hear your one? Changed!

Working with sugar paste must be a pleasant thing, you don't have to work fearing some disaster because of the pasta not suitable. Did you find one that makes you crazy for a feature and another that has any other value? Try to mix them!

Sometimes two knitted pastes together can give surprising results. There are great cake designers who use this trick to create perfect pasta.