Does anyone have any idea what could I use to make my fondant/sugarpaste into gumpaste - to make it more pliable and elastic so I could roll it thinner. There is no gumtex or gum tragacanth or CMC available here... I make sugarpaste form egg white and powdered sugar. But thin sheets and tiny ropes represent a big problem - the fondant/sugarpaste keeps tearing?

Wuld gelatine help?

I don't think gelatin will help. Gumtex, gum tragacanth, and Tylose are all available on line.

SquirrellyCakes passed this tip on - put 1 tsp of powdered fixodent into a wad of fondant about the size of a baseball. Use it just like gumpaste. I've done it several times since I usually can't gumtex or tylose in my area. If you look in my pics, you can see some of the cakes I've used fixodent and MMF with - The red robot monkey, Tink's wings, Sun's rays, and the cross on the Holy Hand Grenade.

Thank you both! I know it's available online but I have problems ordering with my bank card and I can not get ordinary credit card since I am a student... Will keep trying.
I have some more silly questions though ... What is fixodent - how is it primarly used - I could probably find something similar here... Is it the stuf that you put into the whiping cream to make it more stabile and dense?
Your cakes look great, bytheway! Thank you for the answer!

Fixodent is a product people use to keep dentures in their mouth. I know it sounds far-fetched, but it does work. You can find powdered fixodent at Wal-mart, Kmart or any drug store. Make sure you get the powdered kind! Since you want the fondant to get hard, those pieces aren't usually meant to be eaten. Since fixodent is put in a person's mouth, it definitely will be OK to put in your fondant. I just would suggest not to eat it though.

Thank you so much! I never would have thought of that! Amazing! My teeth are still ok so I never even thought of the fact something must hold the artificial teeth in man's mouth! I won't eat it, don't worry:=) I'll look for something like that at our drug stores.

Another question: gumpaste is not supposed to be eaten as well, am I right? I read that on wilton's site... Just curious: is there no totaly eatible stuff with the same properties as gumpaste?

There's nothing in gumpaste that would harm you if you ate it. It's mainly a product used so you can make decorations that can stand and hold a shape. It gets rock hard and doesn't taste good, but it's non-toxic. Most products you use for decorations are labeled non-toxic. Some of the metallic luster dusts are labeled "not for consumption" because of the metals in the powder, but then again, those decorations are for show and not meant to be eaten. Hope that answers you question.

Someone in another post wrote that Fixodent is nothing but CMC...so essentially it's Tylose with tasty mint flavoring. I haven't checked that out yet, but it makes sense to me. I've got a brand new bottle in the pantry. I need to whip up a batch of gumpaste with it to check it out. I get tired of having to order so much stuff online.

Isn't youth great. Thanks for the tip

Really, Fixodent is CMC? Ironically I've heard of CMC but not of Fixodent till now

I checked our drugstores and markets on the net and there is no Fixodent here but I can get Corega from GlaxoSmithKline. Does the same thing. Hope it will work in my gumpaste as well

Yes, youth is great But my dad is 62 and mum is 55 and they both still have all of their teeth But they look at least 10 years younger - maby because of the teeth, hehe I think they would be offended if I thought they are old Pretty healthy family