Culpitt Cake Modelling Icing Paste - 100g Metallic Gold

I bought this product last year for a Christmas cake. I was a little wary as most reviews were negative, but it's very similar to silicone clay: you just need to be patient and work the paste until it's soft and pliable. Follow the instructions! It will be brittle and crumbly to begin with, but does go soft within a few minutes of kneading. I'm not a professional cake decorator by any means, but I could make this work! I'll definitely buy it again.

Good product. Easy to manipulate and mould. Looks really good.

Used to make looped bows and flowers for 50th Golden Wedding cake. Thought it would save time having gold paste ready made. Hard to work with- just break off a little at a time to really knead to get supple. Takes ages. Then easy to roll, model etc. After 7 days however still had not hardened. Very pliable so no good for intended use. OK for flat flowers stuck in cake but not for shaped stand up items. Ended up making ordinary yellow bows from gumpaste to insert inside gold loops of this paste to ensure gold loops stood up ok. Next time would paint yellow gumpaste gold.

I have used this a few times, i find it very solid and difficult to get going and also the shiny gold stays on your hands so i always end up painting the end result to make it shiny which works out being a little expensive. I dont think i will buy this again. Sorry.

I was unsure when I bought this as it felt so hard. It was really difficult to knead as it was so hard so as the packet said I put it in the mixer (have never had to do this before) where it crumbled to pieces. I then checked the Culprit website which said this was correct and to knead back together. This did not work and it just kept falling to pieces so I had to abandon all thoughts of ready gold coloured unicorn horn and make a white one and paint it gold.