I am doing a 50th anniversary cake and they are retired Navy, so I will be doing gold and navy. I will be doing the flowers in royal icing and need to know how to get the pretty, shimmering gold for the flowers. Also, I will be using BC for the rest of the cake, can I get any gold shimmer with BC? Pleeeeassssse and THANK YOU!

Chill the BC flowers and then airbrush with gold luster dust.

I am not sure about the BC, but you can paint your roses with gold highlighter powder when they are dry.

Sorry I should read more thoroughly before responding - now I see your wrote flowers are RI. Yes paint with LD paint or your could still aribrush them too.

Thanks! I have also wondered about dusting BC, so that is very helpful too!

You might consider piping them in a golden-yellow color so that when they're dried and you begin to airbrush them, you won't have any white showing through in crevaces that the airbrushing might not cover very well.

I don't have an airbrush system, I will be painting the LD on with a brush and using either vodka or vanilla....I'm assuming I wait until the flowers dry then LD them?

I don't have an airbrush system, I will be painting the LD on with a brush and using either vodka or vanilla....I'm assuming I wait until the flowers dry then LD them?

I quite often paint royal icing with lustre dust, I mix my lustre dust with alchohol . wait a few hours or even overnight if you can so the royal icing is dry and set. Don't add glycerine to your royal ad tis stops it fro hardening completely.