Coloring Mediums For Fondant Decorations
Decorating By cariestarbuck Updated 8 Sep 2007 , 10:18pm by ceshell
Help! I'm trying to paint dried fondant decorations using directions by Collette Peters (mixing a luster/pearl dust with a bit of alcohol-based liquid to prevent fondant from becoming wet). I have been able to find one of the colors I need, but for the life of me, I cannot find a pale green color (think Tinkerbell). I have found it online, but I can't see paying twice as much for shipping as for the product itself...can anyone recommend another way to paint this that won't make the fondant wet or bleed onto the white fondant of the cake? If I'd have known it would be this hard to find it locally, I would have taken the time to color the fondant originally. Thanks for your suggestions!
Have you tried cakeart.us (note that it's not ".com")? I get my luster dust there when I only need like 1-2 containers of it. It's around $3 for the dust and in the ballpark of $1.50 for shipping...best shipping around for small quantities of stuff! A local cake store near me sells dust for $5.25 so this is still cheaper.
If you can't find the right green color there, you can just color your fondant the desired green, and then paint on with Super Pearl dust. I just did that on my baby booties cake - you can't tell from the pic but that's kind of my point, the super pearl adds an iridescence but doesn't obscure the color.
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