Wedding Forum - DIY - Edible Paint dribbles?...

OK as some of you will know, I'm trying to cut costs anyway possible.

One of my ideas is to make the cake (easier said than done with my sons food allergies), however I have managed to find a packet mix he can have.

Today I bought some ready to roll icing to go on top of a lemon sponge packet mix. I also bought some edible spray paint. I made a template to spray into to create the heart shapes i want on the cake. I rolled out a tiny amount of ready to roll, placed it on the side of a bowl so it would be as verticle as possilbe as some of the shapes will be going on the side of the cake, however, after spraying the edible paint it seems to "dribble" to the bottom of the heart, it looks as if the heart is crying!

Any ideas on how to stop that? Please help!

Maybe you can put the hearts on the bowl initially but then spray them lying flat so then the colour won't dribble; can't think of any other way but sounds great by the way :)

Have you considered doing elevated sections on the cake, which you could then spray-paint on to cut-outs of fondant to then attach to the cake when dry? Otherwise, I think that if you have to spray-paint when iced, you will be looking at building it up over a couple of goes. So, spray it lightly, allow to dry and repeat. I would think that you will need more than one stencil though, as you will need to ensure that the paint dries in exactly the same place with each coat, so the stencil will need to stay in place.

Otherwise, have you considered manually painting it on? You can get great effects hand-painting and it's very 'in' at the moment? You can also get coloured fondant, so if you did consider raised cut-outs, it might just be easier to do it using coloured fondant initially with a cutter.

Sounds like youre spraying too much paint too close. Try putting further away from the target and applying thinner lighter layers allowing to dry in between and where possible, jeep horizontal.

Great minds, VC. ;)

what is lustre dust please?

I have just tried adding a photo of what im after however it appears the image uploader is not working again as its just showing the page in the box thats supposed to say "search image" or something of the like.... either way the photo is on my thread "its been a long ol' journey" its the publisher designed cake with 1 white iced layer, 1 red iced layer, & 1 black iced layer

Lustre dust is a cake decorating fine powder available in lots of colours that can be dusted/bushed on alone for a light shimmer or mixed with clear alcohol such as vodka (can buy a special liquid but it's still just alcohol) to make shimmery paint that can just be brushed onto icing without causing it to go sticky

You can stick on the hearts but again you'd need to use alcohol for the best result cos water can melt the icing

Here's a cake I did with silver snowflakes painted with lustre dust mixed with alcohol and also some stuck on blue ones:



And here's one dusted all over with white lustre dust:

So sonya are you saying that in order for the cut out shapes to stick to the rest of the icing i would have to put clear alcohol on them as if the alcohol were glue? & that they wont just stick themselves to it if i simply placed them on?

hmmm..... need to find a heart shaped cookie cutter first lol.... anyone know if £land do them? or other shops that is not the bay? im upset with paypal atm....

vintagechic - I have been experimenting with a tube of ready made icing from the supermarket and have been struggling ( sorry katya for hijacking your thread :)) I used it to both draw a pattern and to stick the fondant flowers to the cake and in both instances it just slid off the cake and didn't seem to set or harden at any stage. Do you (or anyone) know what I'm doing wrong?

Bride of Frank - it could just be a bit of a naff icing. I generally find that making your own royal icing works better as you can make it thicker with more icing sugar, which will set a lot faster. You don't need a lot of icing to stick things to the cake as a general rule. Have you coated the covered cake in anything? Has the outer fondant dried out? What kind of icing is it that you have bought?

The only time I'd use another icing is if I was sticking on flower paste flowers and then I'd make my own royal icing to a thick consistency. So 1 egg white and about 200g icing sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice. Mix slowly for about 10 mins after sieving in the sugar