Which Pearl Bead Mold Is Easy To Use For Fondant?
Decorating By stresseddesserts Updated 14 Sep 2009 , 8:48pm by Echooo3
Which Pearl Bead Mold is easy to use for fondant?
I never used any mold b4 for fondant. I want perfect circles for my cake. I would like your opinions on which molds (brands) are easier to use. I want round beads. TY 
Hi, I've got the Ck bead maker. So much easier to use. Here is a link,
http://www.globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=16598
The CK molds are so much more $, are they really THAT much better? GSA has the 1st impression 3 cavity for (aprx) $18 & $26. 1 cavity CK is $20 or more each
I have both and I would recommend the longer First Impressions one:
http://www.globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=21438
However, I use these to make strings of pearls, not necessarily individual pearls.
Shoot I sometimes just pipe royal icing that's the right consistency that Toba Garret teaches in her book to pipe nice perfect pearls. I also add gum arabic to the icing to make a lustrous pearl all in one squeeze of the piping bag. (for random individual pearls)
K8 - what is the gum arabic? Does it give a pearl sheen to the icing? I do a LOT of pearl stuff here lately and I appreciate any advice on the subject!
Gum arabic is similar to Gum Trag/ Tylose and CMC. Its added to fondant to give it strength. I use that to make my models.
If you want to give the icing the sheen, you need to dust it with Pearl / Snowflake and many more of lustre dusts.
K8 - what is the gum arabic? Does it give a pearl sheen to the icing? I do a LOT of pearl stuff here lately and I appreciate any advice on the subject!
Gum arabic is a powder that comes in a little bottle like a spices come in bottles.
Yes I just add a few shakes to thinnish royal icing and Toba says to test your icing--you want it to hold the bead when you place it on the side of the cake--you don't want it to droop but you want the tippy point to sink in--so it's easy to get that--just test a bit --add more water, add more royal if necessary.
But then just a few shakes of the gum arabic mixed in there --Global Sugar Art has it--and you got the prettiest pearls all in one stroke.
I have a picture somewhere--don't know if you can really discern the shine in the photo but you can in person--I'll see...
I don't think you can tell so much in the photo--the difference is notable in person. Well worth the three bucks for it.
I haven't tried it with food color--
I can say that I've used just plain gum arabic plus water and brushed it on black fondant and it looks like patent leather. So my feeling would be that it would work fine but I did not test it with color that I can remember. Think it would work though.
I am looking to get one of these pearl molds. Do the pearls come out as a string of pearls or individual? Is there a secret to doing them? Do you put crisco in the mold before putting in the fondant? It is used for both fondant and gumpaste.
Sorry, not trying to hijack the tread just very currious. I ALMOST bought one today at the cake supply store but decided to check into it first.
Thanks.
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