I was asked to do a cake with gold scroll on the side and for the ribbon. What I need to know is if the scroll can be done in gold and how?

The cake looks like its in Buttercream but i could be wrong while the Ribbon looks like fondant or gum paste. Tried loading picture but CC does not accept extension doc.

Any advise anyone??

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Check out the 5 tier red cake with gold scrolls in my gallery. I tinted royal icing golden yellow, piped it on the cake using a scroll press to mark indentations (I don't trust my freehand at 3 am ) and after it crusted over for a bit, I went back and painted it with gold luster dust mixed with a bit of vodka to make a nice paint. It's kinda hard to see in the pic, but it was gold. It could have been a little more gold if I mixed the dust thicker, but it still looked really good.

And Americolor has a "gold" gel food color that you can use as well. I also used the gold luster dust with alcohol (everclear) to paint on the gold fondant.

When you do your scrolls do you use buttercream or Royal? I have always used buttercream and just curious if thats what people use. My scroll work is not very good freehand but I just bought a pattern I am going to try out for practice for a wedding.
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Angel, I'm curious about that,too. Hopefully this will bump it so some1 can help

Great Post!

Just curious how you don't get the gold luster dust mixture all over the cake while painting the scrollwork?
Is there a trick?

angelcakes5-I use a pattern press too, and I love it. I pipe buttercream if the cake is iced in it, and RI if the cake is fondant.

mjs4492-The trick is a very steady hand! The scrolls will be slightly elevated from the rest of the cake, so you just use a small artist brush and a huge amount of patience and paint away.

Cakemommy are you putting the dust on dry or wet?