Help!!!! ? About Luster Dust

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mistygaildunn Posted 16 Mar 2007 , 10:08pm
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I have a wedding cake that I'm wanting to put words around, like a lot of words, in rather small writing, I'm planning on doing BC icing, smoothing with Viva and then BC icing for the words, can I dust the words with gold luster dust to give it gold accent? It's for a 50th anniversary and they wanted gold on it. I've never did the words like that on a cake, and I've never had any dealings whatsoever with the luster dust. Thanks for any advice, it would be most appreciated.

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Florimbio Posted 16 Mar 2007 , 11:50pm
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Some where on here I read a thread on making a liguid kinda BC with luster dust to write with.....Try a search under the threads, maybee the moderators can help find it as well...

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NewbeeBaker Posted 17 Mar 2007 , 2:10am
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Here is a link to the recipe for piping gold or silver...

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2039-Piping-silver-and-gold.html

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mistygaildunn Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 3:13am
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Thank you so very much! But if I did the writing in white BC do you think that I could accent it somehow with the gold dust? And if so, how would I go about doing that?

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missyek Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 3:21am
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Originally Posted by mistygaildunn

Thank you so very much! But if I did the writing in white BC do you think that I could accent it somehow with the gold dust? And if so, how would I go about doing that?




You can make a paint with luster dust by adding a clear extract. I just put a little bit of dust in a tiny bowl and then add vodka with a medicine dropper until I get a good paint consistency. Use a good quality, fine brush to go over your writing.

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mistygaildunn Posted 19 Mar 2007 , 3:12pm
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I only bought the small thing of luster dust, do you think that will make enough to cover the writing on the sides of three wedding cakes?

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