Hello cake friends,
I'm making a 50th anniversary tiered cake. The customer would like one of the cakes to have a gold tint to it, but she doesn't want me to use fondant. Any suggestions? Is it possible to add gold luster dust to buttercream?
Thanks!
Debbie
It doesn't show gold if you add it to buttercream. You can paint it on even slightly crusted icing. You have to make 'paint' by blending a small amount of gold lustre dust with alcohol (vodka, lemon extract, clear vanilla) Put some of the dust in a container or palate and add the alcohol a drop at a time to get to the texture you want. the alcohol evaporates very quickly, leaving a gold shine.
Does it look good when you paint it on? I'm worried it will look streaky.
I've tried this before........I tried adding lustre to the BC & it didn't work, just disappeared as I stirred. I ended up buying Americolor 'gold', but it didn't really look the gold I was hoping for. When I painted onto the BC with gold lustre dust, it did look streaky. But I think if you used a huge, puffy brush it would look a lot better. Or I'm thinking maybe if you dipped a big brush ,(I'm thinking like, make-up here!...a cosmetics brush) into dry lustre dust & then flick it with your finger over the cake to sprinkle it onto the BC.....that may work. I've seen a cake on here before that looked silver & I remember them mentioning something about blowing the dust through a straw?! 
There's a cake in the galleries somewhere that's silver and AMAZING. And of course, I can't locate it right now. But what they did was take a small spray bottle (you can get them at Wal-Mart in the little travel stuff section) and put their PGA or extracts or whatever in there and added the gold luster dust and sprayed the cake. I would think that would take care of any streakiness. (Is that a word??) The finish looks almost lumious. I would think you would need to do this maybe outside or within the confines of a room that you didn't mind turning gold 
HTH!!
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