Comments on: How do I make Sugarpaste?

By: kay Forslöv

kay Forslöv — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:01:58 +0000

hi Lindy,
I am self taught and have been decorating cakes in my free time.I love your website and get a lot of inspiring ideas from it.
I make my own sugar paste as I cannot get it here in Sweden.The Swedes have a whole different way of decorating cakes .As i am South African we have the British styles.
I tried your paste and it was amazing to work with.Thank u for a lovely site.
kay Forslöv-Sweden

By: Lindys Team

Lindys Team — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:41:09 +0000

Hello Jan,

Good luck making your sugarpaste and thank you for your kind comments.

Colouring sugarpaste with liquid food colour is messy.
We stock a full range of colours designed to be used to colour sugarpaste. Here is a link to the colours we stock.
Just add a small amount (on the end of a cocktail stick) to your sugarpaste and knead in.
Cover your hands with white vegetable fat first – so you don’t dye your hands as well.
You can experiment with different colours and always start with a small amount of colour and build it up to the shade you require.

By: Lindys Team

Lindys Team — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:29:03 +0000

Hello Brigitte,

We have no experience of leaving glycerine out of the sugarpaste recipe.
Try it and see what happens – you may find the paste a little too dry and harder to work with.
Let us know how you get on.

By: Lindys Team

Lindys Team — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:23:10 +0000

Hello desperate Don,

We would steer clear of adding lemon juice or zest to the sugarpaste as you will end up with a very sticky texture which may be unworkable.
Try making a lemon sugar syrup and feeding this to the cake, then adding a layer of lemon buttercream between the cake and the sugarpaste.
This will give you a lovely rich lemony flavour.

Hope this helps

By: Brigitte

Brigitte — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:04:30 +0000

Hi Lindy
Is there any way I can go without glycerine? Will it still work?

By: Jan Daniel

Jan Daniel — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:42:51 +0000

I am just trying to start a work from home cake making business, baking the cake is not a problem for me but when it comes to using icing, I’m a complete novice. I have stumbled upon your recipe for making sugar paste after a disastrous experience of trying to colour shop bought s/paste with ordinary liquid food colour – waste of time and what a mess. To say the least, it didn’t work – had to go back to the shop to buy the colour I needed. But after reading the questions and answers/suggestions etc on this site, I have to say, my questions were all answered before I even asked them. Thank you ladies for the questions and answers you have posted – most informative. I read them all with great contentment. I shall embark upon making sugar paste for the first time and will revert with my findings.

By: Don Fitzgerald

Don Fitzgerald — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:34:29 +0000

Hi. I have bravely/stupidly told my daughter that I will make her wedding cakes for later this year (I’m fine on the cooking side, but icing is a black art to me, so I’ve got to get plenty of practice in beforehand). I want to give the icing a citrus tang, as the base cake is a rosemary cake with a madeira-style texture. Is it ok to mix lemon zest and freshly squeezed lemon juice in with the sugarpaste?

Thanks

Don (desperate)

By: Lindys Team

Lindys Team — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:51:43 +0000

You can colour sugarpaste very easily using paste colours. Click here for the full range of colours that we now stock. Simply add a very small amount of paste colour (literally dip the end of a cocktail stick into the colour to start) and knead this fully into the paste. Add more colour until you have the shade that you require. Also try experimenting with mixing colours to create the exact shades that you want.

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:58:42 +0000

Hi Lindy
Thanks for this recipe! I have been asked to make a birthday cake and was trying to figure out how to get coloured icing. Please can you tell me how to make coloured sugarpaste? Do I replace equal amounts of water with colouring or do I just add the colouring and then perhaps use extra icing sugar if the mix is too runny?
Many thanks,
Allison

By: Lindy Smith

Lindy Smith — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:27:03 +0000

Hi Tracey To make sugarpaste really white just knead in a little super white dust here's a link