Hi everyone,
I was just wondering if there was a way to paint on BC cakes? I'm really into rubberstamping and love watercoloring and I was looking for a way to incorporate that into cake decorating. But the only way I've seen people paint on their cakes is my airbrushing, which is too expensive for me to do right now. Besides, I just love painting with a paint brush. Is there any way for me to use icing colors to paint on the cake? I was thinking that maybe if I heated up some piping gel and then dipped my paintbrush into that and then into a drop of the color? Has anyone tried this or any other method?
Thanks,
Christine
On BC, it is a little tougher, but it definitely can be done. Make sure you are using a crusting BC. I mix my color gels (I use Americolor) with vodka to thin them down to make it easier to paint with and the vodka helps the color dry faster. Some people paint straight out of the jar. Some people use the Americolor airbrush colors straight out of the jar because they are thinner than regular color gels so it makes for easier painting. HTH some.
Hiya Rocket, and welcome to cakecentral.
I paint on bc both with brushes and airbrush. I used airbrush colors straight from the bottle on my one cake "lady with violin" and used airbrush for the horse cake. Both are in my pics. I just used good quality artists brushes and painted it dry brush technique. Yes, you have to let the buttercream crust up first or all you're gonna get is clumps of frosting and dribbles of color. Not a good picture.
Hope this helps ya hun
chaptlps, oh my goodness. You're lady with violin is absolutely stunning. That's the kind of art work I'd like to do on my cakes. All your cakes are so beautiful. I'm not that good of an artist but I'd love to try. So, you just used the airbrush colors straight out of the bottle? You didn't have to dilute it with anything?
Thanks,
Christine
Missy,
Thanks for the info! If you use vodka to color then can you still serve the cake to kids? I would think you wouldn't be able to.
Thanks,
Christine
nope didn't dilute it with anything for that one
but you can with either a little water or white alcohol (gin, vodka, everclear, vanilla extract, lemon extract) for a more watercolor affect.
You paint just like watercolor, what you want white you leave white. Airbrushed colors are alcohol based and they are designed to dry quickly. So that's my medium of choice.
BTW on your "vodka" question. Almost all of the alcohol is gone once the paint is dry. It evaporates. So I wouldn't worry bout your little ones becoming ferschnikkered.
I 've recently seen here a topic where someone used thinned icing and brush to paint on the cakes. I am not sure what kind of icing they used. I 've found that cake in my favorites 
, I hope LittleMom doesnt mind me posting it here.
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