So there is a HUGE street festival infront of my bakery next weekend (nuthin like waiting till the last min!) and I am in the process of making some display cakes for my front windows, but...I covered them in wall compound instead of royal icing (I heard it was easier to clean) so my question is, how do I change the color of them? Can you airbrush it and what kind of paint do you use? I know you can pipe it and color the wet with acrilic paint, but I am not sure about painting the whole cake! I have spent a lot of time on these and I really don't want to ruin them...plus I don't have the time to re-do these! Any tips would be great, Thanks Donna
I've never heard of using wall compound instead of royal icing or fondant on dummy display cakes,(yeah once they get dusty they are hard to clean) so sorry I am no help. Could you take a smaller one and just test on a little area first? I'm sure you could probably just airbrush with food coloring like you would normally on a cake but then it would wash off when you try to clean them, and can fade in the sun. If you know anything about regular artist airbrush paint maybe you could use it, it should be durable and would be like painting on a wall, and since they are obviously not edible....
Good Luck!
I would be afraid to do that..... if it is that easy to "wash" off, then wouldn't any kind of moisture sprayed on it kind of run? I've never tried it, so I could be way off...... could you spread some on the counter, let it dry, then spray and see what happens ?
Lightweight Wall Spackle is all I use for my cake dummies unless it's for a competition. What I do for changing to color is get a small 2" roller from the craft section at walmart (little sponge thingy) and roll the color onto the cake that way because then I can do a second coat (just like painting a miniature wall and this way you don't have to worry about spray drips or drops). You just do this step before you do your piping work. I've done it both ways where I mix the paint into the spackle and just painting.. When just mixing it into the spackle before piping, it comes out a very light shade once it's dry so you've got to paint it anyways. Then if there's other details that need to be painted, I also just use acrylic paint. If you go to my site, on the tiered cakes page the black and white cakes (square and one with grapes on it) are both wall spackle cakes.
The one beautiful thing about wall spackle is that you get to sand it to make it nice and smooth, but do so before the painting 
Good luck!!!
I wish I had read this earlier! I just had to figure it out on my own (using spackle)... LOL!
And here I thought I was so clever when I did it last night. Well that'll learn me. 
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