Help!!!! Please!! Fondant Crisis
Decorating By Lizzard1 Updated 26 Jan 2006 , 12:29am by TooMuchCake
Ok guys i know you can help me on this one!? I am making a baby grand piano out of fondant. I already assembled it and everything. it looks drabby. what should i use to get a glossy finish? water? extract? piping gel? food coloring? -its black. please help!!
I use confectioner's glaze to get a varnished wood look or an oiled leather look.
Deanna
Crisco I think. Don't use water! it will get sticky and probablt bleed.
What would you do with the crisco?
If I understand correctly, your cake is already covered in black fondant? If you want a shine, then brush on some piping gel. Good luck!
I don't really know. From what I have read, crisco is the thing to use with fondant? I don't have much experience with fondant....I'm a buttercream gal! Maybe you should melt it on brush it on?? If you decide to use piping gel, I would test it first on a small piece.
Could I make a suggestion? Before trying to glaze your fondant, you ought to try it out on a sample piece first. If it doesn't come out right on the piano, that would be a lot of work going down the tubes.
I think that if you want it shiny, try using some luster dust. (I am not sure if they do black, but maybe a tiny bit of pearl will give it a sheen). It is no fail with the luster dust, but you could run into some problems by putting wet stuff on fondant. Maybe the piping gel would work, but not sure it will give you the effect you want.
Confectioner's glaze is the same thing that makes gumballs and jawbreakers shiny. You can buy it at specialty candy and cake supply stores. You can brush it on like a varnish or you can dip small pieces in it if you're making gumpaste items.
Piping gel will remain tacky no matter how long it sits out, but the glaze will dry to a hard shiny finish without hurting the fondant in any way. I use it all the time. It doesn't soak into the fondant like a watery substance would. It's used for gumpaste leaves and flowers, which are much thinner and more delicate.
If you use the luster dust to dust the piano, you can always glaze over the dusted fondant if it still needs more shine. Just pour some glaze into a Dixie cup like we discussed in the PM to keep any of the dust from transferring from your brush to the whole bottle of glaze.
Is your piano black? I don't know of any black luster dust, but I know they make a dark midnight blue. Anybody know how to make black luster dust???
I'm going to try to attach a picture of the horse cake I did for the Oklahoma cake show. The eye, bridle and the cake board are all fondant and all glazed. That way you can see how it looks when it's dry.
Deanna
Lizzard1
I can't really add to this discussion as I'm still learning .... but I just had to tell you I LOVE your avatar ... lol
toomuchcake
your cake is incredible!!!
CAn you make your own COnfectioners Glaze ? It does not sound complicated unless it has an ingredient that only manufacturer's can get..
thank you
Confectioner's glaze is a food-grade shellac. The ingredient list on the bottle simply says "contains refined bleached food-grade lac." I don't think you can make it at home.
Thanks, sofiasmami!
Deanna
ok...here are some sites:
#1) the general listing of supplies of interest not just to candy makers but also cake makers (confectioners glaze down a bit on the list) -- note the Loranne Oils (@$2.95 -- is this a good price?)
http://www.kitchenkrafts.com/search.asp?t=c&sap=true&c=110900&bhcd2=1138229113
#2) the glaze page by itself. so it seems to be we have to find it by looking at sites selling candy making stuff
http://www.kitchenkrafts.com/product.asp?pn=CE0298
and (drum roll)
#3) and now for your entertainment -- a site telling how/where they get this stuff. Take note of next to last paragraph!
http://www.woodworking.com/article_archive.cfm?section=1&article=416
I used to work in a hardware store, and we had a booklet there on how shellac is made. It had pictures of the beetles and the sticklac and how sticklac was extracted and strained in the olden days to get the shellac... Fascinating stuff, really.
Deanna
I used to work in a hardware store, and we had a booklet there on how shellac is made. It had pictures of the beetles and the sticklac and how sticklac was extracted and strained in the olden days to get the shellac... Fascinating stuff, really.
Deanna
Eeeewwwww TMI!
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