Can anyone tell me how you get the very shimmery gold for icing?
I don't mean the gold like the bottle of gold color such as Americolor.
I need a gold icing like gold sparkle dust.
I have to make thirty fleur de lis cookies and customer wants them outlined with shiny gold.
I know I can mix the luster dust and paint it on but the cookie already has a lot of detail - it would take forever.....to paint each cookie.
Can you mix the dust with icing?
Anyone have suggestions? Is there a product out there that I could use?
She really wants this and I hate to disappoint her - she has placed three orders with me already and looks to be a good customer.
thanks in advance!

You can't mix it with icing -- just doesn't work. You have to mix lustre dust with an extract or grain alcohol and paint it on. Sorry.

I've heard some people mix with piping gel...that might give you the consistency you're looking for.