Pastillage is sugar-based dough used for decorating and creating decorations for pastry, centre piece work and decorative moulded forms. The dough is much like clay or play-dough where you can knead it and roll it out. Pastillage is worked then allowed to dry, setting up to a hard, sugar-based decoration. Depending on the mix, pastillage can be formed and sanded to remove any rough areas after it is completely dry.
This piece is a centre piece of a mask and other elements. I didn’t want to use much colour to keep it minimal; the colour we used was powder colour. We used royal icing to pipe patterns on the work.
Pastillage is very delicate work and you have to have a lot of patience to be able to work with this form of decoration.
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