The stars I need are exactly like the star candy mold-- so I have that and I have the gold dust to paint. Question is what would you use for the stars? fondant, white chocolate, royal, etc.??? I know the gold dust will stay on the fondant and royal, but don't know about the chocolate. I need a lot of them, so the easier the process the better.
Thanks!
I have not had good luck getting gold lustre dust to stay on white chocolate. It made it slightly shiny, but nothing like the gold I can achieve when mixing lustre dust and vodka and painting on fondant or gumpaste.
Not sure how easy those would be to get out of the mold, though. So here's a bump.
I have actually used white chocolate covered with super pearl when making dozens of chocolate seashells. I popped them out of their molds and simply used a DRY brush dipped in super pearl to apply the luster dust. It stuck and stayed just fine. You can see the pics of the pearl seashells in my photos. I actually tried mixing the dust with alcohol as recommended but I didn't get anywhere near the good finish as I did just doing it dry.
I'm not sure if gold dust would behave the same way but I couldn't imagine that it would be much different.
HTH 
Michele
I would go with fondant or royal icing - I don't think you're going to get the color you need with chocolate. Chocolate doesn't have a porous enough surface for the color to stick to - unless you're mixing the gold dust with cocoa butter, I'd use one of the other options.
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