Can you paint gum paste

Make sure if you share on social media you tag me so I can check out your creations! Thanks for sharing this! Sounds much easier for me who has no decorating skills lol. I think it would work if they are all one color but if you are trying to paint a design I have a feeling the colors will bleed. Can I put this on a spray bottle to stencil on a royal icing frosted sugar cookie? Like an airbrush or the wilton food spray? Good question! If you do try it, let me know how it turns out!

Have to go to Liquor store and buy cheap vodka as do not drink. Great idea and super easy. Question: it seems that the items successfully painted need some porosity so does that mean it is likely to fail if painted on the inside of a trifle dish prior to filling? Many thanks! If not, do you know if you can make your own airbrush paint? Will this paint work with an airbrush? Is there a way to make a watercolor paper palette that dries so you can gift this to someone else?

Thanks for any info! I think this could potentially work but you have to stir pretty vigorously to get it to mix evenly so the cups would have to be pretty big.

Maybe this one would work? Stupid question, but can I use lemon extract with the luster dust? Or do I have to use vodka for that? Can I use natural food colors with this recipe, like with the India Tree natural food colors or even homemade colors with raspberry juice or beet powder mixed with water or glycerine? Does this ratio of colors to vodka also work in an airbrush? Thank you for your thoughts on this! Hi Kim — Gel food coloring is best for this because you will get more concentrated colors, but you could try mixing beet powder with vodka instead of water.

Any dyes that already have water or liquid in them will give a very diluted pastel color. Let me know what you learn! I need to use this for my empanadas. I want to be able to paint a V, C or B on the top of my empanadas before I cook them. How do you think this will work? It will be fine for labeling although aesthetically probably not beautiful! I would use a very fine brush because it will most likely bleed on the pastry shell.

Good luck! Thank you for this very informative tutorial. Could you also tell me if this will work on buttercream. Your method is simple and easy to understand! I tried painting my sugar cookies with gel colors and vodka, and they dried out beautifully. But when my friends ate em, they had color all over their tongues.

Is this a thing? You might have to accept a little less vibrant color to avoid the staining, or not use too much paint on one cookie. Sorry if that was already asked or answered. Just want to make sure I have enough time. Can you mix almond extract with the gel food coloring or edible gold luster dust as one of the substitutions? Notify me of replies to my comment. Get a weekly digest of posts.

Read on for recipes for edible food paint and edible gold paint! I also noticed that if I added more vodka I like using everclear or extract that the paint looked more like watercolour painting.

I just tried using the colors out of my edible printer, oh dear, that did not work. I have the wilton paste colors. I will mix them with the little bit of vodka and see if that works better. Thank you for the help. Yep, any of the wilton icing colors worked for me. If you have a dropper, I think its easier to add the vodka to make the consistency you want.

I didnt and tried adding from the cap, kept getting too much vodka in it. Ditto on the vodka. If you pour too much, just wait a little while and some of it will evaporate off. This is the closest thread I've found so far for my question, but I needed to know if theres anything else apart from alcohol that I could use to mix colour. I don't deal with alcohol, and not allowed to either! So was hoping for an alternative.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks beachcakes. I read up elsewhere, that if its synthetic alcohol, then we're allowed to use it. The chances are that when you were a child, you played with plasticine or a similar type of modeling clay; well, working with gumpaste is very similar but without the awful smell. You can work gumpaste by hand, shape it with tools, roll it, cut shapes with special cutters, press it into molds; in fact, its versatility is endless. When working with gumpaste, make sure that any you are not in the process of using are kept wrapped tightly in plastic so the air cannot get to it, or it will quickly get hard.

If your paste is too hard to work with, knead it with your hands, and the heat from your hands should make it soft and pliable. As a last resort, if it still hard, try putting it in the microwave for only five seconds at a time, taking it out, and try to knead it. If it is still too hard, put it in for another five seconds and so on until it is soft enough to knead. Remember, it is mainly sugar, and if left in for too long, it could burn and become unusable. When you have made or bought your gumpaste, you may want to use it in its natural white color, or you may wish to make it into a variety of colors to make flowers, leaves, or other decorations.

I think that some brands of ready-made gumpaste offer different colors, but it is usually sold in its natural state of white, leaving you to color it yourself. To color the gumpaste, break off enough of the white paste you will need to make a flower or flowers and knead in the gel-paste.

If you are making several flowers and you want them all to be the same color, make sure you color enough paste at the same time because it is difficult to achieve the exact shade again. If you are going to use cutters to make flowers and leaves out of gumpaste, you will need to roll out the paste. You will need a smooth work surface such as a non-stick rolling board or a smooth worktop such as Formica or marble, plus you will need a non-stick rolling pin. Some bakers prefer to smear a little vegetable fat on their hands, board, and rolling pin before rolling out the paste.

It is a personal preference, and after you have used gum paste yourself, it is something that only you can decide which you prefer. Alternately, you can use a pasta rolling machine, which can be one you work on by hand or electric ones are available. I use a hand roller, which I find is quite sufficient for my requirements as I only need to roll out enough paste to make around a dozen small blossoms at a time or enough for a large flower before I roll the next piece.

Another plus about using a hand pasta roller is that they are cheap to buy, it saves me having aching wrists from hand rolling lots of paste, and it saves me time, especially if I have a lot of flowers to make. Sometimes I partially roll the paste out by hand and then pass it through the rollers, which I set to the final thickness, so all the paste is rolled out the same.

Remember — keep all the paste you are not using tightly wrapped because it will dry out quickly, especially after it has been rolled, and will be useless. Once the gumpaste has been rolled to the correct thickness, you can cut out the flower petals and leaves using cutters custom-made for the purpose.

You can buy cutters from a cake decorating supply shop, or there are plenty of online retailers you can purchase cutters from for nearly every flower you can think of. I have many metal cutters that make precise cuts and are my favorite type of cutters. However, there is one drawback with them as you have to be very careful they do not distort while using them as it is easy to grip them too hard and bend them out of shape.

Some flower cutter sets come with a plastic disc that allows you to press evenly on the cutter, and it is wise to use this as it will prevent the cutters from becoming misshapen and be easier on your fingers as some have sharp edges. Flowers can be made as one piece or made from parts that need assembling, and they are usually placed in a mold to dry or wired and hung upside down, and new petals added after the first ones have dried. I always use powdered gum arabic mixed well with a little water to make a thick paste.

Many sugarcraft artists prefer not to use cutters, which is great if you only have a few flowers to make but not so good if you require vast quantities. Flowers made by hand without cutters take a considerable time to produce, but they do look fantastic if you have the patience to make them. Items such as bells, shells, butterflies, and small slippers are perfect for cake toppers and are often requested for wedding cakes.

Once your flowers, leaves, or objects are dry, you may wish to add more color, and there are many ways you can decorate them. Painting on gumpaste is straightforward. Before you begin, you need to make sure the surface of the gumpaste is smooth.

Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Things You'll Need. Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: February 6, Choose your desired colors. One of the benefits of gum paste is that it shows colors vibrantly. Determine the colors of gum paste you will be needing based on the decorations you are making. Gather the necessary colors of food coloring paste or gel, which carry color better and more vibrantly than liquid since they are more concentrated.

Choose this procedure if you want to color the entire batch of gum paste the same color. Add the desired amount of coloring in with the liquids of the recipe. Dip a toothpick in the food coloring and stir it into the measured water or other liquid. Did you make this recipe? Leave a review. Method 1. Select this procedure when you need small amounts of several different colors. Work with a little bit at a time. Gum paste will begin to harden if exposed to air.

Keep unused portions in a sealable bag or air-tight container to retain moisture. Refresh the gum paste.