I have a request for a 4 tiered wedding cake in March, covered in fondant. They want the base color silver with black ribbons around it. Am I going to need an airbrush to do this? I can't see hand painting the whole thing, I'm worried that would be streaky. Any advice?? I really appreciate it! Thanks.
Sue
I made a silver cake by hand brushing it. It didn't streak too bad, but it wasn't a huge wedding cake either. I started with grey fondant, then brushed on silver luster dust mixed with vodka. Although I was going for a "metal" look. I guess I'm not much help 
, but maybe just experiment with some fondant. Hopefully someone else has more ideas.
I would be worried about streaks too. I think you will need an airbrush.
If you make your fondant a grayish blue or grayish lavender or just plain gray, you should have a better match between fondant and silver color that will make any streaks less noticeable.
Let me bump you, so that those who do this for a living can find you and answer you better.
"You could do gray fondant and just dry brush on the silver dust. That would eliminate streaks, but would give the silvery sheen. May have to do a few coats to get it really really shiny, but it should work ok."
I did this for a football helmet cake I did. It worked perfectly, no streaking at all. It definitely looked like the shiny silver of a helmet. Very easy to do too.
Thanks for the tips everyone, I wouldn't even have thought of starting with grey fondant. Is there a dust I can use that is safe for eating? The only silver I have seen is the NuSivler 
I really appreciate everyone's help, trying to get a head start in case I have to order stuff.
Sue
Wouldn't this work?
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I made a silver cake by hand brushing it. It didn't streak too bad, but it wasn't a huge wedding cake either. I started with grey fondant, then brushed on silver luster dust mixed with vodka. Although I was going for a "metal" look. I guess I'm not much help
, but maybe just experiment with some fondant. Hopefully someone else has more ideas.
this is exactly what I did. I made the mixture quite thick. Used wiltons silver luster dust. It did not streak very much- the key was to paint thickly once. Any where I tried to go back and touch up only made it worse but if you let it dry completely this shouldnt be a problem. I had very high humidity and wanted to keep the cake refridgerated. Photo is in my pics.
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