How To Dry Pink Fondant Without Fading?
Decorating By ceshell Updated 28 Jun 2007 , 6:09am by adobewife
I know that pink fondant can fade when exposed to light - I actually experienced this firsthand when the lid on my gift cake, left out to dry for a week, became wildly discolored compared to the original fondant which I'd kept to cover the actual cake (what a pain!).
So now I have some fondant figures which have some pink on them. Actually one of them (a bunny) had just a little sliver of pink inside its ears and the sun happened to move into the spot where I'd put him while I was working on the rest of the figures - and the strip turned white! Probably exposed to direct sun for less than...2 hours?? But it's just a little strip, I'm going to let it go (I don't have any pink dust w/which to paint it).
Anyway so another figure I have has on a pink dress and shoes (well also her face has pink in it). It's a little fondant doll and I put some gum-tex into the fondant, but who knows if it's enough to get it to dry quickly. Given the problem w/pink fading, where on earth do I put her to dry then?? I'm concerned there won't be enough air circulating in the pantry or a cupboard, but how else can I keep it in the dark to dry?
What do you do when preparing figures using pink fondant in advance? BTW I used Americolor gel.
Hi I just put my figures in the pantry, most of the time leave them to dry overnight just on the table and if I think that they are not dry yet I put them somewhere out of the light (studyroom with curtains close 
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I have to say I never had this fading so bad as you have... but I hope your doll will stay really pinkish!!
Good luck!
Lara
If you want to touch up the pink, you can use non-toxic pastel chalks(used to shade gumpaste)like the ones you can buy at the store to draw with, just scrape the amount you need right off the pastel and use a brush to touch up the fading. I dry my fondant pieces in the oven with the light on. Hope this helps.
Most of my fondant always gets darker as I let it sit. But i store mine in a large shoe box, my dh is a runner so there is no shortage, with a lid, so I can keep them up away from little fingers. these boxes are fairly large plus he wears a size 13.
But its also very dry here, (near 100 all this week) so drying isn't usually an issue.
Thanks everyone! I live near the ocean so that's probably not helping my drying efforts either; for example I made teeny tiny little teacups yesterday and after 24 hrs they are still pretty squishy and easy to push out of shape. (I sure hope I didn't forget the gumtex!) Anyway the cake isn't due till Sunday so I will keep everything in the pantry as suggested. I think whether they are perfectly dry isn't half the issue compared to whether the colors fade.
Thanks for the tip on the chalk - I have a trip to Michael's today anyway, I'll check it out. I'm assuming that basically you're kind of making your own "matte" luster dust when you use it?? Is that preferable to painting on a tiny bit of coloring gel...or would that just melt the fondant?
The chalk is what petal dust is. You can use the gel color, but it will be more saturated color, and it will dry fine on fondant. The chalk is nice because you can mix it to the shade that you want, and if you need it a softer shade you can cut it with white chalk or cornstarch.
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