Do you know who Dulcinea is? Dulcinea is the inspiration of Don Quixote de la Mancha, a master piece of Hispanic Literature. But this is not a literature class, is a cake decorating newsletter and Dulcinea is my inspiration, in many aspect of my life. For this reason I write The Voice of Dulcinea. Once in a while I will be exposing you to Dulcineas thinking, you know why, because, Cake Decorators have a soul too. In the same way Dulcinea enjoy the landscape from the top of her windmill, we find inspiration in studying a flower, admiring the intrinsic shape and colors in order to be able to make them in sugar.
Anyway, today the recipe for flower paste. Flower paste in this newsletter will be known as Tylose paste, because Tylose is the ingredient that give the paste the elasticity, also retard the drying time and give you more time to work.
Flower paste recipe
1 mix of stiff royal icing 2 tablespoon of tylose 1 or 2 cups 10X sugar (for kneading only)
Once the royal icing is to the peak consistency, add 2 tablespoons of tylose. Beat with the pallet for few seconds, then put 10x sugar on the table and knead the paste adding sugar a little bit at a time. If stick to your hands place a very little small amount of shortening to your hand and knead to form a ball. Wrap in plastic. This paste need REFRIGERATION. YOu will love it.
Next week will tell how to work with this flower paste.
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