Can CAKE DECORATORS use ARTISTA SOFT?
Artista Soft can be used exactly as your icing based pastes. However you will find there is a learning curve with the paste as it is a much softer and wetter paste than flowerpaste. All you have to remember is that when working with it meld a little “Nivea Creme” or “Trex” Into it, and if too sticky to use just leave in the aIr to dry a little. Remember that Artista Soft contains It own glue so will stick to everything but your hands, so rub your rolling pin, cutters and veiners over your greased hand. Cutout say ten pieces of your petals, then go back and ball or cocktail stick them. You can leave the paste a lot longer uncovered than you can icing based pastes. You can if you wish use dust colours, glycerine paste colours or food colouring but you will only obtain pale colouring as Artista Soft is an opaque paste you need to insert such a lot of colouring to get it a deep colour that you will destroy the texture of the paste. So for deep reds, violet tones we recommend that you use t
