I didn't know tylose powder wasn't available at Michaels. I'm going to check with a couple of cake supply stores here... but if no go, what else can I use to make a figurine with my MMF???

This is my 1st time attempting it so I have no idea what gum paste is and barely learned about tylose powder the other day. I just need my little alien man to be hard enough to sit up in his little flying saucer and hard enough that his arms stay up and hold up a flag. I am on a very tight budget and can't really afford to buy too many more ingredients. Thanks!

You can mix your MMF 1/2 and 1/2 with gum paste, or you can add gumtex (I think that's what it's called - I never use it). That should be available at the craft store.

GL!

Karen

I'm looking on Joann's and they have a gum paste mix. It says all you add is water and knead.

So I would add some of this powder to my MMF??

I agree. you can use gum paste or a 50/50 gumpaste/fondant. if you have a michael's, joanns or hobby lobby they carry tylose. hth

You can definitely add a little bit of gum tex to your fondant to get the stability you need for figures. I get mine at Michael's.

You can buy premade gumpaste at Michaels either Wilton or Duff's no mixing, just kneading. Use it alone or mix a 50/50 with your fondant (this will give you more working time) and make your figure from that.

You can find tylose at cake supply stores, but not usually craft stores.

What Michaels carries that works like tylose is Gum-Tex. i use it all the time.

How much gumtex should be added to the fondant. I tried it once and I think I overdid it. I am going to try it again, but would love some guidance.

Yes please post gum tex to fondant measurment.

I use gum tragacanth powder, that works well if you can get it.

I make the gumpaste recipe on the back of the Gum-Tex can... it's like a tablespoon of Gum-tex, a heaping tablespoon of glucose (I use light corn syrup), 4 teaspoons of warm water, and I think 3-4 cups of powdered sugar.

Makes a great gumpaste that can be colored and hardens within hours or can be mixed 50/50 with MMF and takes about a day or two to dry.

HTH

Depending on what you're making, I would go out and buy premade gum paste...wilton's to be exact. You can find it at Michaels. We used to mix tylose with fondant at the bakery I worked for and I found it to be a PIA. Fondant is so much heavier than GP and you can't roll it as thin.

If you're doing flowers or bows then by all means go for the gum paste. It dries light and fast depending on how thin you get it.

If you are making something that needs to stay flexible for a while, then do the 50/50 mix.

I ended up using tylose. It was for a little alien figure and though it took a while (day and a half) to dry, it came out great. I touched him too early and his arms fell off but I just made him a short armed alien.