Hi I am going to make a wine cake...but I am having trouble trying to figure out how to color the fondant so it looks shiney...the cake color is going to be dark deep maroon or a deep deep purple. please give me some ideas....I do have an airbrush but never used it...the fondant color right now is a purple and I am going to dye it a deeper color.

Hi Kellie,

I have made red wine bottles before. Colour your fondant purple/grape colour and then I have painted it with a purple/burgundy/black mixed together with vodka to get the deep colour - you will not get that colour just adding it to the fondant.

Once that is dry, mix 50/50 glucose and vodka - mix it well together and then paint it onto your bottle.

Here is an example of some wine bottles I have done.

Good luck, if you need any more help, let me know

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Kim

To do shiny either use shimmer with alcohol and paint it one, or I've seen cake boss steam his fondant. I sometimes just use pearl shimmer and dust it over. And someone told me one about an edible glaze you can use and paint it on. Good Luck

Wow.. Makeitmemorable.. I wish I had seen your tip about the glucose/vodka paint before. I made one recently and this would have really been great to use.. I will know next time~! Thanks for sharing

I have found when making wine bottles, I just let the fondant firm, then wipe it down with a damp cloth/paper towel. Both of my wine bottles came out shiny.

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I used 50/50 corn syrup and vodka and it worked well. It takes a couple of days to dry so it's not tacky. I am curiosa if I can increase the vodka to get it to dry faster. I also tinted the vodka with my food coloring before I added the corn syrup. It's the first cake in my pics.

I have made fondant shiny by buffing it with shortening on my hands, but that was a large ball of fondant that was easily manipulated (I made some dinosaurs).

Makeitmemorable, I saw your response in another post. I saved the link and recently used your technique, because I wanted my flowers to look like dew had just fallen on them. They turned out beautifully. Thank you so much for posting such helpful advice.

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