Sparkly Gold Cookie Frosting
Hi! I’m totally new to this website and completely new to the whole world of baking and decorating, and I’m going to be graduating this upcoming June. I plan on having a big graduation party, and I want to create like a whole candy buffet complete with cake pops, possibly cupcakes, and these adorable cookies I found on Pinterest. In an effort to save money, I really want to bake and decorate everything myself, with the help of my mother, and we would definitely be up to the task, her knowing a lot more about baking than myself. I’ve been watching a ton of videos about royal icing, and decorating cookies, and just trying to educate myself and find out as much as I can now, so I have plenty of time to experiment and practice. My question for all of you is: How would I go about creating the look of these cookies, with the super sparkly gold frosting, and I want it to look as close to this picture as I possibly could. If any of you have any input as to how I could recreate these cookies, any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much!!! Xoxo
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Hey Marissa,
From the picture it looks like gold dust may have been sprinkled on the wet royal icing. But you have to be careful with that since all sparkly dust not edible. A lot of them say non toxic but you still should not ingest that.
Also just a tip since you are new to cookies. I would outline and flood the top of the cap first and get your gold look. You could always airbrush it gold. That is edible. It will look metallic not sparkly. Another option is may try putting clear sanding sugar in your wet royal icing and then airbrush it gold.
After you get the cap colored with your gold effect and it has completely dried (about a day) you can outline and flood the bottom of the cookie. Since the tussle isn’t touching the bottom of the hat you can pipe that as well. When everything is dry you can pipe the string.
Not sure if you wanted that much instructions but figured can’t hurt to help 😀. Hope that helps and would love to see your results.
Another note. I was just in a cake store and totally forgot that ck products makes a gold sanding sugar. You can use that for your sparkly gold
Thank you so much, Prima Cakes Plus! All of your input is greatly appreciated :) And thank you for all of those instructions as well! I’ll definitely remember all of this. And so, the ck products gold sanding sugar would create a similar sparkly effect?
Pretty close but not exact. If you have a michaels or acmoore near you they carry sanding sugar as well and you can see how sparkly it will be. Can’t remember if they sell the gold or not.
I did forget to mention one other step. I would tint your royal icing with some gold americolor before you sprinkle on the sanding sugar. It will help it look gold.
@Prima Cakes Plus, thank you so much! I will definitely take everything you’ve said into consideration.
My pleasure. Glad to help!
I would color your royal (color flow) a pale gold color, sprinkle gold sanding sugar on top of the wet royal – it sets up quickly so do it soon after flooding. What I would do though is to roll out a sheet of 50/50 gumpaste and fondant – extra thin then take a brush and color the whole sheet with gold powder then cut out the area needed and paste it onto your grad cap with just a dab of royal. Don’t use Wilton gold edible powder. Does’t shine.
Rolkem Gold Dust, is pretty great. Just take a dab (very small dab) and add a little vodka (I use vanilla vodka, even though it all evaporates it just sounds more yummy) and paint it on – you’ll have a nice gold finish… do a couple of coats, it dries quick so you might need to add more vodka if your ‘paint’ dries out while waiting to do another coat. I had to order it on etsy… couldn’t find it anywhere else. (If you’re curious, there is a YouTube video (titled Edible Metallic Food Coloring Review) that compares all of the gold powders, including Rolkem.)
Zoe
