I wanted to make some nice accents on a cake i have to do this week and i want to use gold or silver colored piping icing and dont know how to achieve the effect, do i add luster dust??? would really appriciate any and all feed back. thank you.
(my first post)
I posted a previous topic about this about a month ago. The overall concensus I received was that there are no good gold colorings you could add to bc for gold piping icing. I ended up buying luster dust and painting it on some fondant instead of using it on bc. I've heard you can do it but you have to wait till the bc is very dry and with a light touch.
I asked a professional cake shop to do this and the response was that the amount of gold luster dust it would take to actually dye the icing gold would be insane and expensive. Basically you have to paint it on afterwards and painting works on fondant and royal icing but I'm not sure about buttercream.
Here is a link to an earlier thread where I included a recipe:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-7745-gold.html
HTH!!
I hope I did this right. This is a cake I just did with gold highlights.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=8&pos=40
I just used a little bit of gold sparkle lustre dust and mixed it with a small amount of piping jel. I then used that to pipe onto my cake and then waited a little bit and then I went over all of it with the same lustre dust mixed with pure orange extract. I used a small paint brush to apply it. HTH.
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