Spraying Luster Dust (Tip) How To
Decorating By cakesondemand Updated 1 Feb 2007 , 12:57pm by stephanie214
I saw something done on Ace of cakes so I thought I'd try it and it worked.
I bought one of those veg oil sprayers that you pump to fill with air and put some vodka and luster dust in it and sprayed away works great.
Jeeze I wish you had posted this two days ago. I bought one of those from Williams-Sonoma 2 years ago with the idea of using it for chocolate spraying. Have you ever seen that done? It is a beautiful method of spraying liquid chocolate mixed half and half with melted cocoa butter or vegetable oil, you ice your cake and freeze it solid, then spray with the warm chocolate spray and it sets up on the surface like velvet fabric or maybe suede. Thing is you need a Wagner power paint sprayer to do it, I bought one and tried it but didn't have good results. I learned later it was because my cake wasn't frozen enough and the chocolate wasn't kept warm enough. It is the difference in temperature that makes it set up. So, the Wagner is very loud and bulky and I came across the spray pump from W-S and thought I had come up with a brilliant solution. I tried it and nope, doesn't work, the chocolate stopped up th spray valve. I just threw the oil sprayer away and wouldn't that have been a great idea. I bought the Preval sprayer and didn't care for it, got drips of color instead of a continual fine mist.
great idea! How much luster dust and vodka do you use? I'm doing a large wedding cake on the 10th and the entire cake needs to be in luster dust. Is there a ratio that you worked with?
my sis is a pampered chef consultant...is that the spray bottle you're talking about?
oh, and this wedding is for very religious folks...no alcohol...the vodka will evaporate, right???
THANK YOU!
I have the one from Pampered Chef. I have it filled with veg. oil for spraying the sides of my pans to hold wax paper but would gladly exchange it for the dusts...quicker than cleaning the airbrush 
Please, oh please say that this is the right sprayer
Hey, Shirley, do you have a gravity-feed Wagner or the one that feeds from the bottom? I read (can't remember where) that the gravity-feed sprayers work much better with melted chocolate than the others do. What's your opinion?
Theresa 
This is the one that I have from Pampered Chef. I'm not sure if this is the one that cakesondemand is referring to.
http://www.pamperedchef.com/our_products/catalog/product.jsp?productId=610&categoryCode=KW
I seen some at Bed bath and beyond...it's like a stainless steel contraption... with I believe the top unscrews... would it
... you know waht let me just post the picture of it.. it's called Misto Olive Oil Sprayer
Mist the saute or frying pan with the perfect amount of olive oil. Great for low-fat cooking.
Do you think this would work?
Here is the one I bought from Williams-Sonoma
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/1989326/index.cfm?clg=35&cm%5Fsrc=sch&pkey=xsrd0m1%7C15%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Cspray
My question is if you mix up a fair amount of the luster dust and vodka to use but don't use it all, what do you do with it then? I wouldn't want to just waste it. Once it dries, could I essentially "sweep" out the dust to use again?
I've only used it in small amounts mixing vodka and dust as I went.
I have some that is about two weeks old. I have it stored in one of those little liquor bottles. When I use it, I just give the bottle some good shakes to remix the vodka and dust back together 
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