Sugar pastes

Massa Ticino, Pastkolor, Funcakes or Renshaw?

Not all sugar pastes are the same – the differences between the many brands can sometimes be significant.

What works well for one person doesn't necessarily work for you.

We tell you everything about our different sugar pastes!

Massa Ticino:

- Neutral taste, slightly sweet

- Easy to work with

- Heat-resistant, does not deform quickly in humid conditions

- Suitable for covering cakes (we recommend not exceeding 12 cm in height, otherwise it tears at the edges), for decorating cupcakes and for small modellings

- Made in Switzerland

- Based on purely natural ingredients and AZO-free colours

- Vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free and cholesterol-free

- Halal and kosher

- Available in handy 250g packs in various colours or in 2.5 kg in white

- Many colours in the assortment that can be mixed together

Pastkolor:

- Lemon taste

- Sugar paste that is quite hard to knead at first, but very elastic once warmed up

- Ideal for 3D cakes, Gravity cakes and tall cakes

- Resistant to warm hands and heatwaves

- Comes from Spain

- Also suitable for making modellings

- Available in 2.5 kg, 1 kg, 250g and 100g

- Gluten-free and lactose-free

- Wide choice of colours

Funcakes:

- Sweet candy taste

- Very easy to knead

- Wide choice of colours

- Cracks at the edges if you don't work quickly enough

- Comes from the Netherlands

- Very easy to work with, very soft

- Suitable for covering cakes and for simple small decorations

- Halal, kosher and gluten-free

- Available in 250g, 1kg, 5kg, 12.5kg, in various sets of 5 pieces of 100g and in pre-rolled round sugar paste sheets

Renshaw:

- Neutral taste, slightly vanilla-flavoured

- Very elastic and easy to knead

- Can be rolled out very thinly

- Does not crack

- Comes from England

- Heat-resistant, even in more humid temperatures

- Very flexible and also suitable for covering tall cakes

- Suitable for making all kinds of cakes, cupcakes, simple modellings and decorations

- Available only in white at Cakelicious, but can be coloured without any problem using gel food colours

- Can be rolled out very thinly

- Vegan, kosher and halal

- Available in 250g, 1 kg and 10 kg

- Comparable to Massa Ticino, but much cheaper

Amount of sugar paste to cover your cakes