How to Make Barbed Wire Out of Gum Paste
- 1). Sprinkle cornstarch or flour on your kitchen counter and start working with your gum paste. The flour keeps the paste from sticking to your countertop.
- 2). Drop one drop of gray food coloring into the middle of the gum paste. Fold the gum paste over and knead it with your fingers until the entire piece of gum paste is gray. Add more food coloring as necessary, being careful not to add too much because you do not want your paste to turn a purplish black.
- 3). Take a two- to three-inch section of gum paste from the roll and roll it in your hands to create a ball. Place the ball on the counter and begin rolling it with the palm of your hands so that it begins turning into a long rope of paste. Roll it until the “rope” is the desired width you need for your barbed wire.
- 4). Repeat Step 3 to create an identical second “rope” of gum paste. Intertwine the two pieces of gum paste “rope” by circling one piece around the other. Lay it to the side.
- 5). Break off a small piece of gum paste, approximately one inch, and roll it into a ball. Roll the ball into a “rope.”
- 6). Wrap the small “rope” around a pencil or a wooden cake dowel so that it wraps four times around the dowel. Extend the ends of the gum paste upward on one side and down on the other. Take a smaller piece of rope and attach it to the back of the gum paste with a drop of water to make it look like two more ends; one sticking upward from the top and the other downward from the bottom. Pinch all four ends so that they look pointed.
- 7). Pull the pencil or dowel out from the gum paste and stick it to the barbed wire you already created using water. You will need to create several of these barbed wire points to place along the length of the wire.
