Ideas For Creating Luster For Cake Decorating?

The author discusses the process of making fondant shiny using a food-safe glaze or a water and corn syrup mixture. These methods are easy to apply with a brush, giving your fondant cake a professional, eye-catching gleam. The author also shares an easy method for decorating a cake using a hair dryer to make cake frosting shiny and lustrous.

The author presents a Shimmer and Shine cake idea, which involves a vanilla sponge cake covered in Italian meringue vanilla buttercream. The author provides an easy 3-ingredient recipe and tips for creating a sparkly, glittery, shimmery finish on a buttercream cake. To make the fondant icing shiny, the author suggests creating custom figures out of gum paste and applying a mixture of vodka and corn syrup onto the fondant in a thin layer. This method is great for a high gloss finish and allows the cake to dry overnight for best results.

For a lasting shine, the author suggests using a soft paintbrush and brushing canola oil or Spray Pam (Original) on the cake. They also mention boiling water in a pot on the stove and holding fondant pieces over the steam for a few seconds. Karo Syrup alone or homemade piping gel plus water can result in a nice glossy shine, but the liquid may be too beaded up on the cake.