Gold Paint Not Drying On Fondant Cake - Humidity
Decorating By thefruitcake Updated 12 Mar 2010 , 12:26pm by Loucinda
I live in Brisbane, Australia and during the last four weeks we have had the most rain in 60 years! I had to do an engagement cake with extensive gold and silver work. The silver was almost dry because the work involving the silver was minimal in comparison to the gold work. The gold paint was a disaster; the paint did not dry despite keeping the cake under a fan and rotating it periodically. I would have loved to apply a second coat of gold paint, but the result was blotchy that I refrained from tampering with it further. Any suggestions? By the way, my client was not happy with the engagement cake and as she paid no deposit, I gave her the option of not taking it.
If you have central air conditioning, sometimes it helps to run it when you're working with fondant during rainy weather because it takes some of the humidity out of the air.
Ohhh, this breaks my heart! You poor, poor thing =( Is it something you could have airbrushed on to avoid the texture/painting issue? I am moving in the summer to one of the hottest places in the world, so I am really going to watch this thread for answers and preventative measures! I'm so used to decorating in the US, boring uneventful weather, I'm spoiled (for now!)
I'm so sorry you had to go through that!
Dear Texas Sugar - I used vodka to dilute the gold dust (powder) that is sold in our local cake supplies shop.
Vodka should have dried, but next time maybe a higher proof alcohol would keep it from happening. I know some people use Everclear which I think is 190 proof so it's nearly straight alcohol and would evaporate faster.
HERE IN ARKANSAS, WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH HUMIDITY ON A REGULAR BASIS AS WELL. I HAVE FOUND THAT USING PGA TO MIX MY LUSTER DUST IN HAS SOLVED THAT PROBLEM FOR ME. I USE IT TO PAINT ON AND IN MY AIRBRUSH, IT WORKS FABULOUS!!!!! ONCE I WAS OUT AND IT WAS LATE, NOTHING WAS OPEN, SO I USED CLEAR VANILLA EXTRACT, IT TOOK QUITE A BIT LONGER TO DRY THOUGH. GOOD LUCK ON THE NEXT ONE 
I'm an everclear girl myself. Some days you have to add more everclear to your dust before you even finish painting.
Thank you girls. You are all so kind to me. I am off to the shop now to pick up some PGA. Thanks a ton Sharlene
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