Gold Painted Buttercream Cake

The buttercream must have crusted and needs to be firm to the touch so chill it well.

Gold painted buttercream cake. Pipe drizzle or flood the gold colored icing onto a cake cupcake or cookie. There is also the option of using gold paint applied with a sponge to give a rubbed gold effect. Take pictures of your painted buttercream cake masterpiece and post it to social media. Storytale cakes 99 042 views.

It makes a much better canvas for painting when the buttercream is cold and set. It is best to apply the gold leaf onto the cake tier before assembling the cake so that the base of the cake can be completely covered. As you know i rarely work with fondant. After you paint it you can keep it out at room temp but if it s going for an hour drive i would refrigerate it until you re ready to transport it as.

Allow at least 8 hours of drying time for royal icing. Painted buttercream cake duration. I found it s possible to paint on a buttercream. A metallic gold cake has to be the epitome of wedding luxury the cakes above by let them eat cakes.

Continue until the cake has. Be social and share your painted cake creations. You might try gold lettering on a cake message or flood the entire face of a cookie with royal icing to make gold cookies. Pink painted buttercream drip cake is a yellow cake with buttercream frosting chocolate ganache drizzles edible gold paint splattered on the sides with fresh flowers on top.

When applying the gold leaf press lightly onto the icing and then remove the transfer paper. Before you paint the gold refrigerate the cake for 20 30 minutes until the buttercream is firm to the touch. If the mood strikes you to add sprinkles or gold accents like truly mad plastics super gold powder go for it. I created this pink painted buttercream drip cake for a special occasion but it s not what you would expect.

So i experimented and tried to paint directly on buttercream. I have nothing against people using it i just prefer working with buttercream. Sift by kara 365 915 views. Don t just stop with painting the cake.

Most of the painted cake designs out there are done on fondant cakes.