I'm doing a wedding cake with one of the tiers being gold. I'm not using fondant.
I'm wondering how to get gold. Is it airbrushed or painted? I tried airbrush but it looked yellow. I'll probably use whipped cream frosting like Richs Bettercream so I don't think I can paint it. Gold foil looks like it should be in small increments. Wilton sugar sheets got bad reviews.
Can you help?
I find gold stands out brilliantly on Chocolate - gives an antique gold colour when you dry brush it, my favourite is Brand 'The edible silk range' Colour 'Metallic Gold Sands'. Ingredients E172 & E171.
So you could ganache it then when set go over it with the gold. Try it for yourself on a small amount of ganache if you are interested and see if it's what you are going for :-)
I use a 2 part Milk/dark chocolate mix (I use Cadbury real milk cooking discs and mix to my own taste) to 1 part cream usually. I use the Ganacherator (if you enter that in the search box it should come up in an old post) to work out how much I will need.
If you are in the US.....there are very few choices for using gold. The US has not approved the use of gold on anything that is edible. - ONLY on items/decorations that will be removed before serving. Gold foil in NOT edible and VERY, Very expensive to buy. And putting it on whipped topping type icing? I just can't see any way.
I am doing a 50th wedding anniversary cake and would really have loved making the whole cake gold. But as kakeladi said, while considered food safe, gold of any kind is not rated as edible. Instead, I am making all the trimmings, the topper and the initial plaque gold, all of which can be removed before eating.
Edible Art Paint can go right on BC but it would look great on ganache! It paints on chocolate, BC, fondant, etc. and they have a great metallic range.
I forgot about this stuff, I have only used the standard colours but I agree, they are fantastic and easy to use.
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Edible Art Paint can go right on BC but it would look great on ganache! It paints on chocolate, BC, fondant, etc. and they have a great metallic range.
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