I love the look of this cake and would like to try my hand at the intricate piping. I think it's royal icing painted gold. I just don't know what form of gold they used eg. airbrush sheen colors or luster dust??

If I'm wrong, please fill me in on how this was done. I'd love to know! Thanks!

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I did some gold lace piping a few weeks ago. I wound up using Sugar Veil to pipe the lacework and then once it cured I dusted it with edible gold dust. I could then place it on the cake and maintain the clean look I wanted. I can pipe well, but it's very difficult for me to go back and paint gold over the top of that. HTH!

Thanks Dee. I've never tried SugarVeil but it's on my list! So for now, I'll have to use royal icing.

anyone else try this effect????

I've heard of decorators piping the royal onto the cake then gilding with lustre dust mixed with vodka just on the top of the piping with a very thin brush.

bobwonderbuns - that's what I was thinking of doing. Maybe if I color the royal icing yellow then it wouldn't be so obvious if the gold didn't get around each strand?

That's what I would do, use the Americolor gold coloring and that way the white isn't so obvious. By the way, I love that Sugarveil idea!!

Oh my gosh that's gorgeous!!! Yep, the Sugarveil just moved up to my "must have" list!

What a beautiful cake! And great idea you had to do the dusting separately before putting it on the cake....very smart.