I am still new at making and decorating cakes...so I have a few questions. I found Rhonda's recipe for MMF on here. How do you tint MMF??
Does dry luster dust change the color of the MMF? Or does it put a sheer coat of the color on the MMF? Like...if you had teal luster dust and put it on top of white MMF, would it change the color to teal or would you still see the white showing through??
How do you "paint" on a cake? Do you dilute luster dust and then paint with a paint brush?
Sorry for all the questions...any tips or hints would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks so much!
KateyK
I did a fish cake that I just brushed with luster dust (dry) if you want to see how it looks go to my photos. (Just click "photos" at the bottom of this message.)
Yes you mix the luster dust with lemon extract, everclear, or vodka and make a "paint" with it (I use clear vanilla extract). The spots on the purse cake were painted on with luster dust.
Okies, I can help with a couple of your questions, and hopefully someone else can help with the others. For tinting MMF I use the Wilton gel paste colors, but would really love to get some Americolor. A lot of CC members love that stuff=) You can tint the MMF two ways. One is to add it to the liquids when making it, great to do when you need it all to be one color. If you need your batch to be different colors, then add after it is made. Just take your toothpick(if you have wiltons) and dip it into the color, then put the colored toothpick into the MMF and knead in(using a fresh toothpick each time). The easiest way to get already made fonant one color is to take a small ball of it and tint it one shade darker then the color you are going for, then knead the colored ball of fondant into your white fondant. Also keep in mind that MMF darkens in color as it sits=)
For painting with luster dust, you can use anything with a high % of alcohol. I use vodka, others use lemon extract, and some use everclear. Just take out how much luster dust you will use, then use a medicine dropper and add the alcohol a drop at a time until you get a "paint" consitency. Too thin and it will streak, too think and it will clump. Now alcohol dries pretty quickly too, so depending on how fast you paint, you prolly will need to keep adding the alcohol to the luster dust to keep it the right consistency as you go=)
As for dry dusting luster dust and what color it gives...I personally havent done that. I have only used pearle dust for a shine when dry dusting, so hopefully someone can help you there! Hope this helps some and this post will bump you back up to the top for more to help=) Jen
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