5kg / 11lb BLACK luxury sugarpaste ready to roll fondant icing

5kg / 11lb Cake Stuff Couture BLACK luxury sugarpaste ready to roll icing

Winner of the PRODUCT EXCELLENCE AWARD (Best Product - Edible Category) Cake Masters Magazine Awards

• since its launch a few years ago, Couture has become one of the most sought after sugarpastes in the UK
• sugarpaste that handles and performs every bit as well as White Couture... it took 18 months of development and testing, but we cracked it!
• to complement the best-selling White Couture and Ivory Couture, we have Black and Red . . .
  
• ready-coloured black sugarpaste can often be quite soft and sticky, so we wanted to offer our customers a black sugarpaste that handles and performs every bit as well as White Couture... it took 18 months of development and testing, but we think we've cracked it!
• creating Black Couture was not as simple as adding black colouring to White Couture - this is a brand new product that we've extensively tested at various temperatures and levels of humidity, and on many different types, shapes and sizes of cakes
  
• Black Couture offers a strong black that will not leach colour nor easily fade - perfect for novelty cakes, sculptured cakes and, of course, black themed wedding cakes
  
• the intensity of colour meets all EU and UK regulations on PPM (Parts Per Million) colour concentration - this is as strong a black as can be achieved legally
  
• saves time and mess compared to mixing your own black Couture icing
  
• you may find you have to work a little faster with it too, as it will dry out sooner than White Couture
• Black Couture is slightly softer than White Couture, so for best results keep the icing and your hands cool when working and use only a minimal amount of icing sugar on your rolling pin, modelling board or work top, as adding too much will dry out the sugarpaste and cause cracking
  
• often imitated but never bettered - this is the sugar paste that allows you to decorate your cakes with real finesse and panache
• made using very special ultra-fine icing sugar and the finest Gum Tragacanth - these luxury ingredients help create the smoothest fondant yet for a flawlessly satin smooth icing that dries to an almost porcelain-like, silky finish
• use Spray Shine or Shell & Shine to create a high gloss finish that's ideal for novelty cakes
  
• Couture doesn't crack or craze (especially around corners) or form elephant skin if prepared correctly . . . simply knead well to activate the natural gums and you'll quickly realise just how good this sugarpaste really is
• Couture is ideal for the latest cake design trends - it will not over-stretch, droop or tear on deeper and larger cakes and multi-tiered cakes
• suitable for both covering and modelling - add Tylo Powder or more Gum Tragacanth for a lovely modelling paste
• Couture combines the best features of other brands in one amazing sugarpaste . . .
• . . .  the quality of finish of Massa Ticino, the slightly elastic handling properties of Satin Ice, the pinning out quality of Renshaw Pro (Regalice), the covering properties of Renshaw Extra and the delicious vanilla taste of Covapaste - all at the price you'd expect to pay for Renshaw Covering Paste
• we're so confident you'll fall in love with Couture that it is the only sugarpaste with a Money Back Guarantee
• Couture is 100% exclusive to Cake Stuff - no matter what anyone tells you, you cannot buy Couture from the manufacturer direct or from any national wholesaler nor can you buy the same product sold under a different name, but you can find it in a small number of highly select sugarcraft supplies shops, all of whom are Cake Stuff customers
• PREPARATION - it is important to knead well before use to activate the gums for best performance - the ultra-fine icing sugar creates a 'dense' paste which, in cooler weather, may feel difficult to knead at first so if you find it a bit hard work you can warm slightly in a microwave (blitz for 10 seconds) prior to kneading
  
• sealed packs minimise the possibility of the paste forming a crust, so there's no longer any risk of little hard pieces of sugar being mixed in when kneaded
• investment in massive state-of-the-art mixers means that we can now achieve excellent consistency between batches, in terms of texture, colour and flavour
• increased volume means we can offer our customers a superb product made with the finest (and expensive!) ingredients for the same sort of price as they'd expect to pay for an everyday brand of sugarpaste
• supplied as 2 x 2.5kg sealed packs per box - please note that because of an international shortage of suitable raw material, the box design changed in 2020 during the COVID pandemic - the underside of the current style of box folds together (ie is not taped) so is not quite as strong as the original design.  For this reason some boxes may arrive split or open but their purpose is to protect the 2.5kg packs, so any such 'damage' is considered cosmetic. Couture will be returning to the original design of box asap
  
• click here to read more information about the development and trialling of Couture
• BULK PRICES - if you're a busier cake maker and use quite a lot of Couture sugarpaste, find out more about becoming a Cake Stuff Trade Customer
• *Best Before Date - at least 3-4 months and normally 6 months or more. In the beginning, Couture was produced with a 6 months BBE date to ensure it arrived with customers as fresh as possible but we carried out extensive testing on stock made 9-10 months ago and it performed perfectly, so we increased the BBE date to 9 months and we've now tested stock that's 12-13 months old so hope to increase the BBE date further to 12 months from date of manufacture very soon.  Nothing at all has changed with the recipe, it is purely the date that has been extended. Happy days!
• supplied as 2 x 2.5kg sealed packs per box
• 5 kg / 5,000g / approx 11lb
• add additional flavour using good quality icing flavourings
• click here for our Cake Covering Guide
• ingredients: sugar, glucose syrup, water, humectant: vegetable glycerine E422, palm oil*, emulsifier: mono & diglycerides of fatty acids E471, potato starch, colour: vegetable carbon E153, stabiliser: gum tragacanth E413, preservative: potassium sorbate E202, natural vanilla flavouring
• dietary advice: suitable for vegetarian, vegan, gluten and dairy free diets
• allergy advice: - produced in a factory which also produces marzipan, so there is a risk of nut traces being present - traces of nuts, soya, milk & sulphites possible
  
• religious observance: certified Kosher and suitable for Halal - Couture is considered suitable for Jewish and Muslim customers as the E471 fatty acids are plant derived
  
• additional nutritional information printed on both box and pack labels
• although not necessarily present in this particular product, the colours used across the entire coloured sugarpaste range may include the colours E102, E104, E110, E122 & E129, which may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in some children
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