Cake decorating

When you color gumpaste or fondant with luster dust to get a good shine on edible jewels, you can end up with streaks or a mediocre shine. That’s because luster dust is dry and it’s not formulated to be used as a paint, so it doesn’t always dissolve evenly.  You can mix it with water, […]

Fondant and gumpaste popcorn that most people make is pretty cartoon-y, which is fine if you’re going for that look.  If you want to make more realistic popcorn, though, you should get some real popcorn to study first, then ditch the cutters, since you don’t need them.  If I’m going to go to the trouble

Stenciling onto buttercream isn’t as hard as you might think, but you do have to take a few precautions. I did a few stenciled wedding cakes that were covered in buttercream, so I took notes on things that I would tell other bakers who were going to try it. For both of these cakes, I

I had to do some luster dusting of some red fondant pearls last week, right at the same time a question came up on a cake forum about the best way to pearlize colored pearls so that the color didn’t disappear. I’ve used regular pearl dust on colored pearls before, and it basically changes the

When you make fondant pearls it’s easy to make the colored ones, but if you want them to have some shine too it gets trickier. Make the pearls darker than you want them to be. To match a color and get the finished pearl the right shade, you’ll need to make it darker than the

When you’re painting on fondant cakes or gumpaste, you have many options for whatever type of effect you’re looking for. What kind of edible paint you’ll use is going to depend on the final effect that you want. What to use for edible paint. For a clear color, more like a watercolor, you can use:–Straight

Fondant pearls are easy, you just roll up little bits of fondant into balls, right?  Sort of, but you have to make sure that they’re all a uniform size unless you’re going for the random look. How to make fondant pearls. The way that I make fondant pearls is to use a strip mold for

When you hear people talk about “fondant” in cake decorating, you might not realize that there are multiple types of fondant. Some are for covering cakes, and some are for pouring over desserts like petit fours. If you think you’re using one kind but you’re supposed to be using a different one, you’re going to