The other family some family members dropped by and asked me to make some cupcakes for my uncle's birthday. He is turning 76, likes chocolate, and spent a lot of time in the Marines. 24 chocolate cupcakes later, I was armed with the Marine red and gold to cut out, dry and pipe these fondant circles. I piped some detail on each round and let THAT dry. When they were completely dried, I painted the details with gold shimmer dust mixed with vodka to make a kind of paste.
Don't get too excited!
The vodka evaporates faster than water so as not to make the icing soggy
and leaves no aftertaste.
ANYWAY...Painting the gold was difficult b/c you can't simply wipe off any mistakes. It gets absorbed into the fondant as soon as your paint brush makes contact. I really did enjoy trying out the new technique and look forward to doing it again.
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